By Ben Max
10. Bill Bratton Leaves ‘On Top’
In an
extraordinary send-off -- his own mini-parade -- Bill Bratton departed 1
Police Plaza on September 16, 2016 for the final time as NYPD
commissioner. For about two-and-a-half years Bratton was Mayor Bill de
Blasio’s police commissioner and the arrangement worked mostly well for
both: Bratton had the job and power in it that he wanted, de Blasio had
political cover on his most sensitive issue, and crime continued to
trend downward, silencing (or at least quieting) some de Blasio critics.
When Bratton announced his departure, few were shocked. It created a new vulnerability for de Blasio, but also came with a silver lining
-- while Bratton gave de Blasio key political cover and got some key
results that de Blasio needed, he was himself a political figure, prone
to speaking his mind no matter what the de Blasio company line may have
been, perpetually battling with the City Council, and the embodiment of
his controversial brand of Broken Windows policing.
De Blasio quickly replaced Bratton with then Chief of Department
James O’Neill, who he attempted to label not as the broken windows
commissioner, but the architect of the new neighborhood policing.
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Source: Gotham Gazette (via The Empire Report)
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