Bill Bratton
William (Bill) J. Bratton was sworn in as the 42nd police commissioner of the City of New York on January 1, 2014, the second time he has held the post. Commissioner Bratton established an international reputation for re-engineering police departments and fighting crime in the 1990s. As Chief of the New York City Transit Police, Boston Police Commissioner, and in his first term as 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. As Los Angeles Police Chief from 2002 to 2009 he brought crime to historically low levels and greatly improved race relations. A U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War, Commissioner Bratton began his career in 1970 as a beat cop in the Boston Police Department. By 1980 he had risen to Superintendent of Police, the department’s highest sworn position. Commissioner Bratton is a graduate of Boston State College and the FBI National Executive Institute. At Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, he was a Senior Executive Fellow in Criminal Justice and a member of the school’s National Executive Session on Policing.