Word: bratton
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When Rudy gets mad, he gets even. Just ask the people he's sent packing. Think of Hanover as former police commissioner William Bratton or as a squeegee man. Hanover doesn't want the kids to meet Judi at Gracie Mansion? Well, then, she's got a warped agenda and "doesn't care what happens to the children." Felder let it be known that Giuliani has to sleep in the den, with the bath down the hall, where he runs as many as eight times a night to vomit while his wife lives like a queen in the master bedroom...
...blame for Diallo? The four white police officers, who shot a man holding a wallet; the system of accountability, put in place by former New York Police Commissioner William Bratton, puts intense pressure on officers to bring down crime at any price; wannabe-Senator Rudy Guiliani; and most importantly, the Supreme Court. While some feel there is not much of a policy difference between George W. Bush and Al Gore '69, there is a significant difference on this issue. With as many as three seats on the Supreme Court likely to come open in the next four years, the future...
...Bratton served as New York City police commissioner from...
...British-born Canadian, Gladwell, 36, started thinking about the large consequences of marginal actions while working on a story about the crime rate in New York City. William Bratton, then the city's police commissioner, was a believer in the "broken windows" theory, which says such big crimes as assault and robbery happen where small decay, like litter and graffiti, is tolerated. To ward off shootings and break-ins, Bratton cracked down on things like public urination and subway spray painting, a tactic that explains at least part of the city's crime drop in the 1990s...