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William Bratton

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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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account
1947 1
BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account
Boston, Massachusetts 1
NationalitySourced to the subject's own account
American 1
Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own account
The 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
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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.

Source Wikipedia: William Bratton
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1. Wikipedia: William Bratton
New York City, first tenure section
Quote, New York City, first tenure section
He cooperated with Giuliani in putting the controversial broken windows theory into practice
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