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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
A Good Thing
American
American History
Been
Black
Both
Experience
Far
Good
Good Thing
History
More
Often
Policing
Than
Thing
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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
About
Achieve
Behavior
Big
Big Things
Change
Controlling
Crime
Deal
Eliminate
Enforcement
Extent
Going
Implies
Keep
Little
Little Things
Never
Oppressive
Position
Really
Them
Things
Tolerance
You
Zero
Zero Tolerance
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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
Actually
Apply
Clearly
Firearms
Large
Large Number
Number
Obtain
People
Process
Through
Who
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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
About
Been
Complain
Complaining
Cop
Cops
Created
Forces
Lot
Morale
Police
Police Forces
Since
Used
Were
Young
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I disliked everything about the '60s.
~ William Bratton
About
Disliked
Everything
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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
Acting
Controlled
Experienced
From Time To Time
Gotten
I Think
More
Oftentimes
Older
Temper
Think
Time
Use
Way
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I like having ambitious people around me. I could care less if they want my job.
~ William Bratton
Ambitious
Around
Care
Could
Having
Job
Less
Like
Me
People
Want
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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
Academy
Attended
Boston
First
Funeral
I Remember
Police
Recruit
Remember
September
Still
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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
Abuse
Also
Am
Cognizant
I Am
Impact
Life
Limitations
My Life
Negative
Police
Potential
Profession
Proud
Spent
Very
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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
African-American
Anyone
Anyone Else
Because
Crime
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Fear
Feel
Foundation
Going
Immigrant
Matter
Officer
Police
Police Officer
Police Station
Promise
Recent
Report
Secure
Station
Then
Treated
Up
Walking
Well
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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
Certainty
Crime
Gun
Punishment
Violence
Which
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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
Because
Black
Candidates
Convictions
Department
Fact
Going
Hired
Male
Minority
More
Never
Other
Percentage
Police
Police Department
Population
Prison
Reality
Records
Significant
Than
Them
Unfortunate
Very
Whites
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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
America
Been
Best
Enjoy
Fear
Foundation
Freedom
Freedom From
Freedom Of Speech
Freedoms
History
Impossible
Many
Parts
Police
Public
Public Safety
Safety
Sit
Speech
Without
Worship
Would
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No place is unpoliceable; no crime is immune to better enforcement efforts.
~ William Bratton
Better
Crime
Efforts
Enforcement
Immune
Place
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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
Apply
Area
Assertiveness
Balanced
Cannot
Certain
Consistently
Crime
Differently
Done
Downtown
Employed
Harlem
Laws
May
More
Must
Police
Policing
Presence
Procedures
Require
Same
Significant
Than
Times
You
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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
Based
Cause
Crime
Officer
Personally
Policing
Probable
Witness
Witnessed
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Race is something that's always haunted American policing.
~ William Bratton
Always
American
Haunted
Policing
Race
Something
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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
Country
Enforced
Foundation
Laws
Original
Original Sin
Our
Police
Sat
Sin
Slavery
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Some cops I don't like - the corrupt, the brutal.
~ William Bratton
Brutal
Cops
Corrupt
Like
Some
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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
Absolutely
American
Asking
Basic
Doctor
Examination
Give
His
Like
Policing
Something
Stop
Tool
Using
Without
Would
Would-Be
You
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