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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 精装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780679452515
When William Bratton was a year and a half old, his mother
caught him directing traffic in the street out front of their
Boston home. From that moment on, it seemed destined that he would
become a cop. In this book, Bratton and his coauthor, Peter
Knobler, chronicle Bratton’s career, focussing particularly on his
efforts to revitalize Boston’s and New York City’s police
departments. Bratton rose quickly through the ranks of the Boston
Police Department, where he pioneered community policing and
cleaned up the city’s subway system. As New York’s transit-police
chief, he cracked down on minor offenses like turnstile jumping on
the theory that the people who commit more serious crimes
underground also commit smaller ones. It worked. Finally, Bratton
realized his dream of becoming America’s top cop: the New York City
Police Commissioner. The city’s crime rate dropped over 10 percent
a year during Bratton’s brief tenure as top cop, until Mayor
Giuliani’s administration forced him out of the job in 1996.
In Turnaround, Bratton describes the police initiatives that led
to these successes. Bratton and his peers used computer mapping to
pinpoint crime hot spots and then cleaned up the areas using all
the tools of law enforcement. One of the favored tools was “quality
of life enforcement”–curtailing minor crimes like panhandling,
squeegeeing, and prostitution in order to make the streets seem
less inviting to worse criminals. Bratton made police commanders
from all districts of the city accountable, requiring them to
report on progress and problems in their locales, during frequent
departmental meetings. Bratton is now a consultant to police
departments across the nation, so, like it or not, his style of law
enforcement may soon be coming to a city near you. This is not a
page-turner or a masterful work of literature, but Bratton’s ideas
about curbing crime should be of interest to both those involved in
law enforcement and regular people who are concerned about crime.
–Jill Marquis
In Turnaround, Bratton presents a model equally worthy
of study by ex-officials embarking on that tricky literary genre,
the memoir of the ousted. There are no high literary ambitions at
work here, but to the credit of both Bratton and Peter Knobler (who
has collaborated on the autobiographies of prominent people
before), the book sounds like Bratton throughout, and thoughts of
posterity have not tamed him. — The New York Times Book Review,
James Lardner
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