Supervision of Police Personnel (6th Edition)
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  • Supervision of Police Personnel
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  • Some good info... but rambling and poorly written
Supervision of Police Personnel (6th Edition)
Nathan F. Iannone , and Marvin P. Iannone
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ASIN: 0136492290

Book Description

This book offers complete coverage for leadership training of supervisors in law enforcement and allied fields. The relationships involved in individual and group management methods and the practical techniques for carrying out the various responsibilities of the supervisor are explored. Everyday problems faced by the police supervisor in interpersonal, operational, and administrative relationships with subordinates are also covered in detail. Chapter topics include the supervisor's role, and function in organization, administration, and management; leadership, supervision, and command presence; interpersonal communications; principles of interviewing; psychological aspects of supervision; employee dissatisfaction, grievances, and complaints; discipline principles, policies, and practices; tactical development of field forces; and conference leading. For the training of managerial and supervisory personnel in police departments and law enforcement agencies.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Drawn out and boring, hard to understand.......2007-05-13

I found Supervision of Police Personnel (6TH) to be pretty much drawn out and boring. It is painfully evident that the same information could have been relayed in a lot less then 400 boring pages. It was difficult to follow and often repetitive. A lot of detail was focused on irrelevant material. This was a difficult book for me to swallow (as a 12 year LEO), but it certainly rated high as a sleep aid for me.

5 out of 5 stars Supervision of Police Personnel.......2007-03-10

It is a very good informational source for anyone that wants to pursue a promotion in police work. The review questions at the end of each chapter are convenient and helpful.

2 out of 5 stars Don't pay for this book..........2006-11-29

Don't spend a dime...borrow it from a fellow Officer. I am a firm believer in capitalism, but these guys are really pushing the envelope. $99.00?! Nathan can keep the book!
Is the content any good? Yes, it is solid, however basic, leadership for Police Officers. But $99.00?! Go read something by Covey...it is a hell of a lot cheaper and far less boring.

1 out of 5 stars Sleeping Material.......2006-11-10

This book is so dry and painful to look at. It's great to look at right before you go to bed to ensure a great nights sleep.

2 out of 5 stars Some good info... but rambling and poorly written.......2006-10-23

This text is required reading for many taking police promotional exams. While there is some good information in it, it is rambling and poorly written. There are some indications that the book is not properly reviewed and edited before each new reprint. I hope the seventh edition is better and ties together the concepts clearly. There are several chapetes that are seperated but could easily dovetail into one. I found a 107 word run-on sentence (p.139), and it was by no means an exhaustive search -- there are many such examples. You can make it enjoyable to a degree by trying to find the number of times "catharsis" and "splendid" appear, but other than that, have your asprin bottle handy. I'd recommend a study guide such as Sgt. Walker recommends, or try to outline the thing yourself. Good luck.
Police Administration: Structures, Processes and Behavior (6th Edition)
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    Police Administration: Structures, Processes and Behavior (6th Edition)
    Charles R. Swanson , Leonard Territo , and Robert W. Taylor
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    ASIN: 0131123114

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    The best-selling, most comprehensive book available for police administration and management, Police Administration 6/e presents a carefully researched and vivid introduction to police organizations that focuses on the procedures, politics and human relations issues that law enforcement managers and administrators must understand in order to succeed. Representing the collective experience of the authors' decades of experience in law enforcement, training, and teaching, Police Administration 6/e is recognized by both the academic and law enforcement communities as the authoritative treatment of this important topic. Chapter topics include the evolution of American policing, community policing, organizational theory, concepts of police organizational design, leadership, organizational and interpersonal communication, human resource management, stress and police personnel, labor relations, legal aspects of police administration, planning and decision-making, financial management, and organizational change and the future. For law enforcement managers and administrators.
    Management and Supervision in Law Enforcement
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    Wayne W. Bennett , and Kären M. Hess
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    ASIN: 0495093416

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    Eminently practical, straightforward, and applied, this text focuses on law enforcement managers and supervisors, their jobs, and the complicated interrelationships between members of the law enforcement team and the communities they share. It illustrates the best-known methods and practices of police leadership and management while also turning an eye to the future. It presents a comprehensive overview of the responsibilities of law enforcement leaders and covers everything from the newest principles of participative leadership and community policing to the exciting technological aids changing the face of law enforcement today.

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    5 out of 5 stars Im the Chief now.......2006-08-09

    Great Book. Hard to read at times on mids, but now Im the CHief....Good Luck

    4 out of 5 stars Good read.......2006-02-26

    I was tasked with reading this for a promotional test. It has lots of good infomation and makes for an easy read. Some of the chapters contain too much information making it difficult to retain but overall a good resource.
    Police Patrol: Operations and Management, Third Edition
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    • Police Patrol-Operations and Management by Charles Hale
    Police Patrol: Operations and Management, Third Edition
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    Based upon a practical application of theory with the “how-to” of “real world” policing, this book details the core functions of a police agency—covering patrol operations, goals, and strategies. It combines management theory with case study examples taken from small police departments. KEY TOPICS Specific chapter topics discuss police patrol hazards, community-oriented policing, patrol force staffing and deployment, special issues in patrol operations, and upgrading patrol effectiveness. For police practitioners, field supervisors, and middle managers.

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    Policing and Special Units (Prentice Hall Policing and ... Series.)
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      Supervising Police Personnel: The Fifteen Responsibilities (6th Edition)
      Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
      • Poorly written list of lists
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      Paul M. Whisenand
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      For courses in Police Supervision, Human or Organizational Behavior, and Ethics.

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      Customer Reviews:

      2 out of 5 stars Poorly written list of lists.......2007-03-20

      I was forced to read this book as part of a promotional process..... The book is very disjointed and should be titled "Fifteen Essays on Police Supervision." The entire book reads like a book written entirely to test from in an academic arena. From an instructional stand point the book is fantastic to test from each chapter exposes the reader to concepts and a multitude of lists that the instructor may pull questions from. The problem being that each chapter extols the virtues of the listed concept and why it is the most important factor in supervision. Unfortunately, two chapters later there is a new "Responsibility" that is the most important to police supervision, and a new reordered list. The author even makes the error of defining terms with the term used as a definition for itself?

      In short avoid this book unless it is required reading, or you intend to test from it on a chapter by chapter basis.... Even then there are far better titles to expose students to.

      1 out of 5 stars Horrible!!.......2005-09-11

      This book is just plain bad. Writer has very hard time getting anything across clearly..way to wordy for the simple messages that he is trying to get across. Avoid if at all possible unless you like to sleep!! or if you have to read it for a test...even then not worth it!!

      1 out of 5 stars Long winded........2005-03-27

      The only reason anyone would read this book is because it was listed as required reading for a promotional exam. Mr Whisenand is out of his mind and should limit his writing to something he has firsthand experience in. Read this book only if you are having insomnia.

      1 out of 5 stars Tiresome, windy, unrealistic, list happy.......2002-09-01

      This guy is out of his mind. A very frustrating read which makes U.S Army technical manuals seem fascinating. Mr. Whisenand is an obvious scholar, but I fear his "book of lists" does not translate all that well to actual human beings. In addition, I found the section on "community oriented policing" especially overblown. He fails to consider the prosecutorial implications of stating that "long and detailed reports are turnoffs to many people" (page 331, paragraph 1), they're turnoffs to defense attornies too!
      Again, an extremely intelligent man and dilligent social scientist, but this book is horrible.

      2 out of 5 stars Supervising Police Personnel.......2001-09-28

      This book is entirly overwritten. It is very listy, for example, It tells you that there is 6 characteristics of a well written report. Then in the very next line he tells of the 6 different types of reports. Then he goes further to break down each type of report and explain what they are and why they are used. The ideas are notable. However the book's content is poorly written and is more for the overall manager not specific to police services. And yes, one needs to do the job before one can write about it.
      Police Field Operations, Sixth Edition
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      • POLICE FIELD OPERATIONS BY THOMAS F ADAMS
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      Thomas F. Adams
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      1 out of 5 stars POLICE FIELD OPERATIONS BY THOMAS F ADAMS.......2006-11-16

      I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK. IT IS POORLY WRITTEN AND IT SEEMS THAT EVERY EDITION GETS WORSE. SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY.

      2 out of 5 stars I hated it.......2006-05-08

      My department changed the reading material for a promotional exam from Callibre Press to this junk. I was forced to read and internalize it; I hated it. This book is intollerable from the front cover. Take a look at the guy in the graphic. He is holding a flashlight in his gun hand; nuf said?

      4 out of 5 stars Very basic, good book.......2001-02-28

      I had to read this book for a promotional examination and found it to be a good refresher of the very basic points that we all learned at the beginning of our police careers. When I am approached by someone who is not yet in police work and wants to read a good, simply written and understandable book on law enforcement, I always recommend this one. It may seem to be too basic for those of us in this field for the years I have served, but many areas are still very relevant.

      3 out of 5 stars Police Field Operations.......2000-02-16

      Too vague and general for someone using the book to use as a reference. Does not go into a lot of key points you actually use on patrol. Also, tends to make remarks that do not reflect the reality of todays police work. The author seems out of touch with policing today.
      Justice Administration: Police, Courts and Corrections Management, Fourth Edition
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        Justice Administration: Police, Courts and Corrections Management, Fourth Edition
        Kenneth J. Peak
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        This fourth edition of Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management
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        The Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic
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        • A New Paradigm in Police Leadership
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        The Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic
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        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

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        When Bill Bratton was sworn in as New York City's police commissioner in 1994, he made what many considered a bold promise: The NYPD would fight crime in every borough...and win.  It seemed foolhardy; even everybody knows you can't win the war on crime.  But Bratton delivered.  In an extraordinary twenty-seven months, serious crime in New York City went down by 33 percent, the murder rate was cut in half--and Bill Bratton was heralded as the most charismatic  and respected law enforcement official in America..  In this outspoken account of his news-making career, Bratton reveals how his cutting-edge policing strategies brought about the historic reduction in crime.

        Bratton's success made national news and landed him on the cover of Time.  It also landed him in political hot water.  Bratton earned such positive press that before he'd completed his first week on the job, the administration of New York's media-hungry mayor Rudolph Giuliani, threatened to fire him.  Bratton gives a vivid, behind-the-scenes look at the sizzle and substance, and he pulls no punches describing the personalities who really run the city.

        Bratton grew up in a working-class Boston neighborhood, always dreaming of being a cop.  As a young officer under Robert di Grazia, Boston's progressive police commissioner, he got a ground-level view of real police reform and also saw what happens when an outspoken, dynamic, reform-minded police commissioner starts to outshine an ambitious mayor.  He was soon in the forefront of the community policing movement and a rising star in the profession.  Bratton had turned around four major police departments when he accepted the number one police job in America.

        When Bratton arrived at the NYPD, New York's Finest were almost hiding; they had given up on preventing crime and were trying only to respond to it.  Narcotics,  Vice,  Auto Theft, and the Gun Squads all worked banker's hours while the competition--the bad guys--worked around the clock.  Bratton changed that.  He brought talent to the top and instilled pride in the force; he listened to the people in the neighborhoods and to the cops on the street.  Bratton and his "dream team" created Compstat, a combination of computer statistics analysis and an unwavering demand for accountability.  Cops were called on the carpet, and crime began to drop.  With Bratton on the job, New York City was turned around.

        Today, New York's plummeting crime rate and improved quality of life remain a national success story.  Bratton is directly responsible, and his strategies are being studied and implemented by police forces across the country and around the world.  In Turnaround, Bratton shows how the war on crime can be won once and for all.

        Customer Reviews:

        4 out of 5 stars Easy read, important story by brillant but short-sighted cop.......2007-03-28

        This book is very easy to read. In form, it is an autobiography of the man who modestly dubs himself "America's top cop." Humility is not one of Bill Bratton's vices.

        The book flows very easily. It tells you enough about Bratton's life to give the book some structure, but it is not a personal book. It is a book about policing.

        The argument of the book is like those old "Before" and "After" photos in the weight-loss ads. The "Before" in this case is the bloated, ineffective police bureacrats who did not have a clue what crime was going on in their city and whose mantra was risk avoidance. The "After" is the nimble, computer-assisted, result-driven police department brought into creation by Bratton at the New York Police Department.

        Rudy Guiliani is the one of the villains of the piece. According to Bratton, Rudy never did one damm thing right, except for hiring him. It was all Bratton, doing heroic police work, while that drama queen Rudy ineffectively tried to steal all of the Top Cop's headlines. In the end, the Top Cop would have ended crime completely in New York City -- completely eradicated it -- except that Rudy got so jealous of the Top Cop's book deal and what not that the snake Rudy gave Top Cop the boot, in a underhanded way of course.

        I, of course, have no personal knowledge of any of this, so I can not say who was right and who was wrong. To an outsider, it seems pretty obvious that both Rudy and the Top Cop have egos big enough for fifteen ordinary people. It also seems that, for all of Bratton's brillance and success as a cop, he forgot who his boss was. Given how many battles Rudy was fighting with the New York Times, the ACLU and the liberal establishment to let Bratton do his thing, I think that Bratton massively underrates Rudy's contribution to their joint enterprise. Bratton seems to think that cops can just do policing all by themselves, in a vacuum. The truth, of course, is that the average mayor would have fired Bratton after the first thunderous New York Times editorial denoncing police brutality. While Top Cop could not see this, he could not have done anything without Rudy backing him ceaselessly and running endless interference for him with his real enemies, the liberals who hated everything that he did.

        4 out of 5 stars Better than Giuliani's Book.......2005-09-26

        This reviewer has no insight into how much of the book was written by Bratton and how much was written Knobler. Regardless, this book is a quick and delightful read. The language is rough and informal as one might expect from a police chief turned author, but is written with enough balance that it could be used a textbook for a criminology class. Assuming that Knobler had a major hand in this book, this reviewer intends to seek out his other books to see if they are as excellently written.

        Having recently read Giuliani's book, it is striking how much less ego is in this book than in Giuliani's book which covers many of the same events and initiatives. Additionally, there are many striking differences of fact in this book and Giuliani's. Not just the discussions of personalities and why different folks were moved around or fired, but very specific things such as the level of computerization in COMPSTAT and the timing of the "rollout" of different initiatives. All things being equal, this reader would tend to believe the Bratton version of events since he was working these issues much closer than the Mayor would have been.

        The book is not a true biography of Bratton. It has a short biographical section which is primarily structured to discuss why he became a cop and how his philosophy to criminology was developed. Then the book talks about Bratton's initiatives as the highest uniformed officer at Boston, as head of the transit police in NYC, as head of the Boston police, and finally his crowning triumph as Commissioner of NYPD.

        To be completely honest, this reviewer has little interest in police matters. This book was read as a research project for a scholar I work with. Despite this lack of background, I found some very interesting ideas outlined in this book. First, large institutions - Governmental Bureaucracies, military, police - tend to become monolithic and exclusive. This means that members of those organizations, in order to avoid stagnation and collapse as society changes around them, must constantly scan the outside world to lift the best ideas and procedures available. Second, American nature is fascinated and compelled by change and innovation. To sell ideas and make the folks doing the work feel involved and have ownership, one might consider selling the ideas often as innovation even if they are more evolutionary than revolutionary. Finally, Bratton and Giuliani ultimately did quite a bit of damage to both the general population of NYC and the NYPD because of their huge egos. After reading this book, I am willing to believe that Giuliani had the larger share of fault in this, but the there is plenty of blame for both in this case.

        Many will say that Bratton just rode the wave of national crime reduction. Some of the things they might cite as the real cause of the crime reduction might be: (1) the graying of America's general population. (2) The shift from Crack (a stimulant) to Heroin (a depressant). (3) The availability of cheap and legal abortions essentially killed the poor and disadvantaged before they had the opportunity to grow to adulthood and become criminals. (4) The decrease in crimes in NYC was simply a reflection of the statistical decrease of crime across the nation. While there is a grain of truth in all of these, they miss the point. NYC far exceeded the national average in crime reduction. Additionally, NYC is such a large population that they were a significant factor in the nation-wide reduction numbers. One need only look at cities like Washington DC or New Orleans to see that not all cities experienced reduced crime during this period. Therefore, the Bratton's policies must have had a significant role in crime reduction in addition to the elements discussed above.

        Of course, part of the reason that this book was written was to help Bratton with his public speaking and consulting business that he started after leaving NYPD. However, that fact does not detract from its usefulness. Additionally, it must be noted that Bratton has recently returned to public service as Police Commissioner at LAPD. It will be interesting to see what initiatives he develops in that much different environment and how effective his "old" techniques developed at Boston and NYC will be in an environment that is much different both culturally and geographically.

        In summary, this is an excellent book. I highly recommend it for folks interested in leadership, innovation, criminology, or the recent history of NYC. This book is better than Giuliani's both in terms of the writing and its usefulness.

        5 out of 5 stars A New Paradigm in Police Leadership.......2004-11-25

        I have been teaching college level police management courses since 1976. I began to cite Bratton's tactics and leadership style in my lectures after he appeared in TIME and predicted that his name will be in police text books in the near future along with other heavyweights. Sure enough, in John Dempsey's "Introduction To Policing" (second edition) Bratton's COMPSTAT efforts are cited on pages 24-25. What is surprising to me are the negative reviews posted on this Amazon review section. They apparently have no clue on the nature of social disorder fostered in the "Broken Window" syndrome embraced by Bratton and integrated into his crime-specific targeting tactics of COMPSTAT. And yes crime did decrease in the nation during that period but that had nothing to do with targeting the notorious "window wipers" and recently paroled ex-cons (read the book to learn about these police tactics). I wonder if the negative reviewers are part of the traditional set that resisted needed change in how police do business? But I respect Bratton for his leadership style. Talk to New York transit cops who got new radios, Glocks and black leather jackets. Those little things mean a lot to street cops and that's what bonds them to their leaders. And, after being on the job only for a few weeks, he goes into the NYPD precinct to personally supervise the arrest of the cocaine cops then faced the cameras holding up the badges telling the city that the badge numbers will never be used again forever. It is a leadership paradigm that others wish they had thought of first. Of course, his detractors will call it grandstanding. If they know so much, how come they never got to be top cop of Boston, NYPD or LAPD?

        5 out of 5 stars I'm a believer.......2003-02-03

        I decided to read this book when Bill Bratton
        was hired as Chief of Police in Los Angeles.

        This book reads like an autobiography, from Bratton's
        childhood in Boston, until after his falling out with
        Guiliani. Through his experiences, I learned a lot
        about police work.

        Critics say that Bratton's success in New York was
        concurrent with a nationwide drop in crime (presumably
        due to a strong economy) and thus isn't such a big deal.
        Cheap shot. This book explains how a well managed

        police effort absolutely has an effect on crime.

        Bratton has a strong track record of accomplishment,
        turning around the MBTA Police (Massachusetts Bay Transit
        Authority), the Metropolitan Police (now part of the
        Massachusetts State Police), the New York Transit
        Police, Boston Police, and NYPD.

        Bratton believes in the Broken Windows theory, i.e.
        that acceptance of petty crime creates an environment
        that breeds more serious crime. (The slippery slope
        argument.) He also believes in analysis of crime
        statistics, by location/time/etc. to determine how
        to deploy police resources: originally pins on
        a map, eventually growing in to the famous CompStat.

        Having lived in the Boston area for many years, the
        references to different parts of the city where he
        worked, and to various people (Mayors, police officials,
        etc.) made the book all the more interesting for me.
        Also, Bratton talks about a book called Your Police
        which he checked out of the library as a boy; I remember
        checking that same book out of the library when I was
        around 8-years old. (Although I've always had a strong
        interest in it, I didn't pursue a career in law enforcement.).

        Bratton certainly has his work cut out for
        him in Los Angeles. The LAPD has been plagued by
        scandal, inept leadership, and (not surprisingly)
        low morale and high employee turnover. And crime
        is pervasive -- from reckless driving, littering
        and graffiti, to gang drive-by shootings.

        After reading this book, I am convinced that
        Bratton is exactly what L.A. needs, and I applaud
        Mayor Hahn for having the spine to hire the
        most qualified person for the job, despite all
        of the political pressure to make an appointment
        based on race.

        3 out of 5 stars Better Lucky than Good.......2002-10-21

        Bill Bratton is an accomplished police manager. He proved himself an excellent police chief in several agencies. He is not, however, a miracle worker. The innovations Bratton introduced into the NYPD coincided with the largest drop in crime in the nation's history. The drop started in 1991, accelerated in 1994 (the official starting date for Bratton's organizational changes) and culminated by 1998 with the national crime rate at its lowest point since the 1960's. This happened nation-wide and a number of departments other than New York City experienced record declines in crime. The real tragedy in New York is that Bratton believes they actually validated the Broken Windows theory of crime control. In fact, had he implemented these strategies in 1984 instead of 1994, the rising tide of crime would have made him appear foolish. Timing is everything and it really is better to be lucky than good.
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