American police executive who led the police departments of Boston, New York City and Los Angeles, and who implemented broken windows theory as order-maintenance policing during his first term as NYPD Commissioner from 1994 to 1996.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountThe only person to have led the police departments of both New York and Los Angeles, the two largest in the United States; as NYPD Commissioner under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani he cooperated in putting broken windows theory into practice as departmental policy. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Implemented broken windows theory as order-maintenance policing during his first NYPD tenure (1994-1996) under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani; not one of the theory's original academic authors.
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1. Wikipedia: William Bratton
New York City, first tenure sectionQuote, New York City, first tenure section
He cooperated with Giuliani in putting the controversial broken windows theory into practice
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