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William Bratton
American
Public Servant
Born:
Oct 6
,
1947
About
Black
Crime
Fear
Police
You
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You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community.
William Bratton
You
Police
Community
Without
Effectively
Cannot
Working
We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder - but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.
William Bratton
Fear
Crime
Free
Duty
Live
Secure
Share
Also
While
Disorder
Fundamental
Fundamental Right
Right
Many of the best parts of America's history would have been impossible without police. All the freedoms we enjoy - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear - sit on a foundation of public safety.
William Bratton
Best
Freedom
History
Fear
Police
Safety
Impossible
Freedom Of Speech
Sit
Enjoy
Worship
Would
Freedom From
Freedoms
Parts
Without
Been
America
Public
Public Safety
Many
Foundation
Speech
It's an unfortunate fact that in the male black population, a very significant percentage of them, more so than whites or other minority candidates, because of convictions, prison records, are never going to be hired by a police department. That's a reality. That's not a byproduct of stop-and-frisk.
William Bratton
Reality
Police
Black
Minority
Prison
Convictions
Other
Significant
Percentage
More
Records
Fact
Never
Police Department
Because
Hired
Male
Very
Than
Department
Going
Candidates
Unfortunate
Them
Whites
Population
Quality-of-life policing is based on probable cause - an officer has witnessed a crime personally or has a witness to the crime.
William Bratton
Witness
Cause
Crime
Policing
Witnessed
Officer
Probable
Personally
Based
Race is something that's always haunted American policing.
William Bratton
Haunted
Something
Policing
Always
American
Race
I disliked everything about the '60s.
William Bratton
Everything
About
Disliked
If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence.
William Bratton
Crime
Gun
Punishment
Which
Certainty
Violence
Stop-and-frisk is not something that you can stop. It is an absolutely basic tool of American policing. It would be like asking a doctor to give an examination to you without using his stethoscope.
William Bratton
You
Doctor
Tool
Would
Would-Be
Examination
Give
Something
Absolutely
Like
Policing
Without
His
American
Stop
Asking
Using
Basic
I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting.
William Bratton
Time
Older
Think
Way
Temper
More
Gotten
From Time To Time
Controlled
Oftentimes
Flare
Experienced
Acting
Use
I like having ambitious people around me. I could care less if they want my job.
William Bratton
Me
People
Care
Job
Having
Could
Like
Around
Ambitious
Want
Less
American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that's been a good thing.
William Bratton
Good
History
Experience
Black
More
Both
Good Thing
Policing
Been
Than
American
Often
American History
Far
Thing
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