William Bratton, left, with his latest boss, Al Sharpton's best pal and Mayor of New York City.
When he was Police Commissioner under Rudolph Giuliani, Bratton famously said, "Americans don't like whistleblowers." Huh? He's the Police Commissioner and served in three cities? Are police whistleblowers or what?
[From article]
At every stop, he reduced crime while changing the culture of policing. He was on the cover of Time magazine during his first stint in New York, was the subject of a Harvard Business Review study on turnaround leaders and in 2009 was awarded the honorary title of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth.
For all that glory, Bratton, at age 67, now faces the most difficult challenge of his career.
Crime is exploding in New York, but he could handle that. His problem is his boss.
[. . .]
Bill de Blasio was a red-diaper baby and nursed a lifetime affinity for radical causes. From supporting Castro’s Cuba and Nicaragua’s Sandinistas to admiring the Communist mothership, the Soviet Union itself, de Blasio’s “power to the people” fantasy runs to his bones.
His commitment is so horribly rigid that he’s willing to accept scores of innocent New Yorkers getting slaughtered needlessly to prove his point. He will do almost anything in service to his manifesto, which might be summarized as “better dead than not red.”
[. . .]
Bratton, of course, cannot escape his role in this bloody predicament. Driven by ambition to get the New York job again and by personal animosity toward Ray Kelly, Bratton joined candidate de Blasio’s chorus that Kelly’s historic record of low crime was tainted by unprofessional and unconstitutional practices.
His audition was successful, but no sooner had de Blasio given Bratton the job than the mayor started to take away the tools necessary to do it. Stop-and-frisk was mostly banned, community policing became a euphemism for looking the other way and cops were put on notice that City Hall wouldn’t have their backs in a crisis. Al Sharpton, owed a political debt, was put on a policy par with Bratton.
The result was inevitable. When marchers in Manhattan last December chanted, “What do we want? Dead cops,” one era ended and another one was born.
http://nypost.com/2015/06/06/its-time-to-turn-bill-bratton-loose/
It’s time to turn Bill Bratton loose
By Michael Goodwin
New York Post
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