Bill Bratton, Former Los Angeles Police Chief
From: The Criminal Justice Conversations with David Onek
Length: 37:51
BRATTON INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS
Bratton on the Importance of Community Policing:
“The single most significant reason for the successes in Los Angeles – not only with reduced crime, but with improved public feelings about their police force – is community policing.”
Bratton on the Dangers of Cutting Funding for Policing Services:
“The big risk now for Los Angeles and indeed America is that there is a significant disinvestment going on as it relates to our criminal justice systems… It’s like a patient who is being treated successfully for cancer and all of a sudden you start reducing the radiation and chemotherapy and the patient starts, as you might expect, not getting better but once again feeling the effects of their illness.”
Bratton on Leading an Ambitious Team:
“I want to use their ambition… I’m very comfortable having people who want my job. I am very comfortable that I can hold it until I’m ready to leave, and then they are welcome to it. And I want them hungry. I was hungry to get ahead… You go where the talent is and you have to have confidence that you can lead them.”
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BRATTON INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS
Bratton on the Importance of Community Policing:
“The single most significant reason for the successes in Los Angeles – not only with reduced crime, but with improved public feelings about their police force – is community policing.”
Bratton on the Dangers of Cutting Funding for Policing Services:
“The big risk now for Los Angeles and indeed America is that there is a significant disinvestment going on as it relates to our criminal justice systems… It’s like a patient who is being treated successfully for cancer and all of a sudden you start reducing the radiation and chemotherapy and the patient starts, as you might expect, not getting better but once again feeling the effects of their illness.”
Bratton on Leading an Ambitious Team:
“I want to use their ambition… I’m very comfortable having people who want my job. I am very comfortable that I can hold it until I’m ready to leave, and then they are welcome to it. And I want them hungry. I was hungry to get ahead… You go where the talent is and you have to have confidence that you can lead them.”
Transcript
DAVID ONEK: Welcome to the Criminal Justice Conversations podcast, a coproduction of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice and the Berkeley School of Journalism. I’m your host, David Onek. The podcast, recorded in the Berkeley School of Journalism studios, features in-depth interviews with a wide range of criminal justice leaders: law enforcement officials, policymakers, advocates, service providers, academics, and others. The podcast gets behind the sound bites that all too often dominate the public dialogue about criminal justice to have detailed, nuanced conversations about criminal justice policy.
Today’s guest is Bill Bratton, the former Los Angeles Police Chief and former New York Police Commissioner. He is arguably the best-known and most well-respected law enforcement official in the country. Bratton served as Los Angeles Police Chief from 2002 to 2009, and serious cr...
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