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Mayor Giuliani often gets credit for the dramatic drop in New York's crime since the 1990s. Does he deserve it? I think so. It wouldn't have happened without Giuliani. He had a commissioner [William Bratton] that changed the culture of the NYPD and made them accountable for the first time in perhaps a decade, but Giuliani was unable to share credit and Bratton was dismissed. Bratton, in my opinion, was not blameless either. He couldn't control himself when it came to publicity...
...answer to the question "What killed Michael Jackson?" may still be weeks away, but police officials have given a strong indication that criminal charges, perhaps even for homicide, are being considered. Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton has said that detectives have spoken to a number of Jackson's doctors and are looking into the singer's prescription-drug history. The coroner's conclusion as to the cause of death, based on toxicology reports, will determine whether criminal charges are filed. "Based on those, we will have an idea of what we are dealing [with]," Bratton told...
...police investigation is being conducted with the assistance of the California attorney general's office, which keeps a database of prescription drugs, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Neither Bratton nor the two law-enforcement agencies involved in the case would go into further details when contacted by TIME. However, the police investigation is reportedly centered on a coterie of physicians who treated Jackson throughout the years. Gossip website TMZ reported over the weekend that Jackson may have been administered Diprivan, a powerful sedative typically used in hospital or clinic settings for surgical purposes, shortly before he stopped breathing. (See pictures...
...have yet to reach the depths of what he has done.' WILLIAM BRATTON, Los Angeles police chief, on John Floyd Thomas Jr., 72, whose DNA was matched to two 1970s murders; he is believed to have killed as many as 30 people...
...approach to fighting crime: By the time he finished his first term as mayor, crime had dropped by somewhere between 12 and 16 percent—for three consecutive years. From the start, Rudy challenged the idea that crime is tied to economic distress. Under him, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton implemented two innovative strategies, “broken window” policing and CompStat. “Broken window” policing emphasized arresting those who committed victimless crimes, operating under the assumption that those individuals were most likely to commit violent crimes. CompStat consolidated all data about recent crimes...