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William
J. Bratton was appointed Chief of the
Los Angeles Police Department by Mayor James Hahn
in October 2002. Chief Bratton oversees the third
largest police department in the United States,
managing 9,300 sworn officers, 3,000 civilian
employees, and an annual budget of more than one
billion dollars. A strong community policing advocate,
he is directing a major reengineering of the LAPD,
decentralizing the bureaucracy, strengthening
local commands, increasing responsiveness to community
concerns, and developing strategies to counter
gang-related crimes and the culture that spawns
them. During his first two years, overall crime
has dropped 13 percent, homicides 20 percent and
response time decreased 22 percent (from 8.6 minutes
in 2002 to 6.7 minutes in 2004).
The only person ever to serve as chief executive
of both the LAPD and the NYPD, Chief Bratton established
an international reputation for reengineering
police departments and fighting crime in the 1990s.
As Chief of the New York City Transit Police,
Boston Police Commissioner, then New York City
Police Commissioner, he revitalized morale and
cut crime in all three posts, achieving the largest
crime declines in New York City's history. He
led the development of CompStat, the internationally
acclaimed command accountability system that uses
computer-mapping technology and timely crime analysis
to target emerging crime patterns and coordinate
police response. From 1996 on, Chief Bratton worked
in the private sector, where he formed his own
private consulting company, The Bratton Group,
L.L.C., working on four continents, including
extensive consulting in South America. He also
consulted with the Kroll Associates monitoring
team overseeing the implementation of the Federal
Consent Decree with the LAPD.
A Vietnam veteran, Chief Bratton began his policing
career in 1970, as a police officer with the Boston
Police Department, rising to Superintendent of
Police, the department's highest sworn rank, in
just ten years. In the 1980s, Chief Bratton headed
two other police agencies, the Massachusetts Bay
Transportation Authority Police and the Massachusetts
Metropolitan District Commission Police.
Chief Bratton holds a Bachelor of Science Degree
in Law Enforcement from Boston State College/University
of Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the FBI
National Executive Institute and was a Senior
Executive Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School
of Government at Harvard University. He currently
serves as the Elected President of the Police
Executive Research Forum (PERF). He is a frequent
lecturer, writer, and commentator. His critically
acclaimed autobiography, Turnaround, was published
by Random House in 1998. Among his many honors
and awards, Chief Bratton holds the Schroeder
Brothers Medal, the Boston Police Department's
highest award for valor.
Chief Bratton is married to Attorney Rikki Klieman
and has one grown son, David Bratton.
Gerald Chaleff
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