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In three pages William Bratton’s memoir on his tenure as New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s first police commissioner is reviewed. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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largely responsible for putting him in perhaps the highest-profile law enforcement job in the United States - serving as New York City Mayor Rudolph Giulianis first police commissioner. His
tenure may have been brief due to frequent disagreements with Mayor Giuliani and his staff, but William Brattons policing legacy lives on, and is chronicled in a text NYCs onetime
premier law enforcement official wrote with Peter Knobler entitled Turnaround: How Americas Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic. The text details the law enforcement methods Bratton used to great
success, with New York Citys crime rate dropping more than 10 percent under his leadership. The book seeks to educate readers on how Bratton was able to reduce crime
so impressively in a city with one of the highest crime rates in the world. He does so in a way that reflects the same analytical style he relied
upon as police commissioner. This text is not necessarily for everyone; but for readers who are either involved in or interested in law enforcement, Turnaround should be required reading
because of its practical policing methodology and its rare insiders perspective into the politics of law and order. Bratton and his co-author describe the cornerstone of his plan to tackle
crime in New York City concisely and with great clarity. Shortly after becoming commissioner, Bratton thought about the Broken Windows technique he read about years earlier in an article
written by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling featured in The Atlantic Monthly. In it, they declared, "If police are to deal with disorder to reduce fear and crime,
they must rely on citizens for legitimacy and assistance" (Bratton and Knobler 138). Wilson and Kelling "advocated a return to... community problem solving policing" (Bratton and Knobler 138).
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