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Bill Bratton
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The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America
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The Profession: A Memoir of Policing in America
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“In times of crisis I find it is best to be completely transparent. You lose your credibility at the first inkling of making excuses. Take it, be prepared to be savaged, and have a plan for moving forward.”
― The Profession: A Memoir of Policing in America
― The Profession: A Memoir of Policing in America
“You’re kidding me. Someone can get killed in their division and they are at home asleep and hear about it the next day?” I was appalled. This businesslike attitude signified that nobody cared about the lives that were lost, often Black and brown lives. The community was being denigrated. But when someone gets shot in the middle of the night and the captain jumps out of bed to get there, the troops hear it loud and clear: “This matters. This life matters. These people who are being killed matter.” The level of accountability rises, and officers are made to understand that there are expectations, not simply, “Yeah, somebody got shot in South LA. Just another dead body.” It reverberates through the organization.”
― The Profession: A Memoir of Policing in America
― The Profession: A Memoir of Policing in America
“Ray Kelly told Linder, “You want to reduce crime? I can reduce crime. You give me fifty men and suspend the Constitution, I’ll reduce crime.” We would not be following that path.”
― The Profession: A Memoir of Policing in America
― The Profession: A Memoir of Policing in America
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