JOHN DECARLO: "What happened was they started arresting people for the low-level crime of turnstile jumping, and what happened is they diminished the number of violent criminals because indeed they were the same people. As they started arresting that segment of the population, crime started coming down."
Turnstile jumpers were sometimes found carrying guns or knives. So arresting them prevented more serious crimes, Mr. Bratton would say. He served as transit police chief from nineteen ninety to ninety-one. He left to lead the Boston police. But he returned three years later to become commissioner of the New York Police Department.
By nineteen ninety-eight -- two years after he left that job -- America's largest city had just six hundred twenty-nine homicides. Mr. Bratton has credited his success in reducing crime rates to the methods he based on James Q. Wilson’s ideas of community policing.
Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton ceremonially hands in his badge as he prepares to leave the job in October 2009
William Bratton went on to serve as police chief in Los Angeles, where crime also fell sharply. Today, he is the chairman of Kroll, an investigations and risk consulting company.
FAITH LAPIDUS: The idea of community policing -- of trying to work with the community being policed -- has spread throughout the country.
Finding a balance is not always easy. If policing is seen as overly aggressive, it can deepen mistrust. Police may find more weapons by searching more people on the street. But they need a legal reason to stop someone. If not, they could be accused of violating a person's rights, or racial profiling -- targeting people just because of their race.
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