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I disliked everything about the '60s.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Everything About
Disliked
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You have to bare your fangs once in a while.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Bare
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Some cops I don't like - the corrupt, the brutal.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Brutal
Corrupt
Cops
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Race is something that's always haunted American policing.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Haunted
Policing
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No place is unpoliceable; no crime is immune to better enforcement efforts.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Crime
Enforcement
Immune
Efforts
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You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Effectively
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If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Certainty
Gun
Punishment
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Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Original Sin
Police
Sat
Sin
Slavery
Original
Enforced
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Clearly, a large number of people who shouldn't have firearms actually apply through the process and obtain firearms.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Firearms
Large Number
Obtain
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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 / Law Enforcement Officer
Witness
Officer
Policing
Probable
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Cops have been complaining about morale since police forces were created. I used to complain about it a lot when I was a young cop.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Complaining
Cop
Morale
Forces
Police Forces
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I was still a recruit in the Boston Police Academy when I attended my first police funeral. It was September 28, 1970. I remember it still.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Boston
Funeral
Recruit
September
Attended
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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 / Law Enforcement Officer
American History
Good Thing
Policing
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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 / Law Enforcement Officer
Flare
Experienced
From Time To Time
Oftentimes
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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 / Law Enforcement Officer
Disorder
Secure
Fundamental
Fundamental Right
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I think that's the direction we [the americans] are going to have to go, the idea of people understanding that if you see something, say something, as simple as it sounds.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Ideas
Simple
Thinking
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I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
America
Simple
Sorry
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I've spent my life in the police profession, and I'm proud of that. But I am also very cognizant of the profession's limitations, its potential for abuse, and its potential negative impact.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Abuse
Cognizant
Profession
Life Police I Am
Limitations
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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 / Law Enforcement Officer
Examination
Absolutely
Basic
Doctor
Policing
Tool
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Nothing will ever replace good old fashioned police work, but Facebook and Twitter have been like a tool on our belt, In some ways it can help them in their investigations and in some ways it can hinder
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Police Work
Tools
Way
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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 / Law Enforcement Officer
Freedom Of Speech
Public Safety
Safety
Worship
Freedom From
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We are increasingly blind for terrorism purposes and for general law enforcement purposes with the new devices and the continuing effort to make them even more secure against even court orders authorising law enforcement to have access.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Effort
Law
Order
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They really do feel under attack, rank-and-file officers and much of American police leadership, that they feel they're under attack from the federal government at the highest levels. So that's something we need to understand also, this sense of perception that becomes a reality.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Leadership
Government
Police
Reality
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If an African-American or a recent immigrant - or anyone else, for that matter - can't feel secure walking into a police station or up to a police officer to report a crime, because of a fear that they're not going to be treated well, then everything else that we promise is on a shaky foundation.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
African American
Crime
Foundation
Police Officer
Promise
Secure
Anyone Else
Report
Everything Else
Immigrant
Officer
Recent
Shaky
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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 / Law Enforcement Officer
Candidates
Department
Police Department
Population
Significant
Unfortunate
Convictions
Male
Minority
Percentage
Whites
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Broken-windows enforcement is really about controlling behavior to such an extent you change it: If you deal with the little things, you can keep them from going into the big things. Zero tolerance implies zealotry. It's oppressive. And it's not achievable. You're never going to be in a position to eliminate all crime.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Zero
Achieve
Big Things
Crime
Enforcement
Little Things
Position
Tolerance
Zero Tolerance
Controlling
Deal
Eliminate
Extent
Implies
Oppressive
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Policing has to be done compassionately and consistently. You cannot police differently in Harlem than you're policing downtown. The same laws must apply. The same procedures must be employed. Certain areas at certain times may have more significant crime and require more police presence or more assertiveness, but it has to be balanced.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
Assertiveness
Balanced
Certain
Consistently
Crime
Downtown
Employed
Harlem
Police
Procedures
Significant
Laws
Apply
Area
Differently
Presence
Require
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