Colby Hamilton and Murray Weiss
December 5, 2013 9:54am | Updated on December 5, 2013 2:25pm
DNAINFO
Bill Bratton holds a copy of "Your Police"--a children's book he said inspired his early desire to become ...
CITY HALL — Former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who helped the city greatly reduce crime under then-mayor Rudy Giuliani,
set forth a sweeping vision for the NYPD's "new era" under his
leadership during a press conference announcing his appointment
Thursday.
With Bill de Blasio by his side, Bratton, whose
time at the helm of the NYPD included the introduction of CompStat, the
use of real-time computerized crime data that targets criminal activity
and holds supervisors accountable for addressing it, vowed to heal rifts
between the city's minority community and the NYPD.
"We have a situation in this city at this time
that is so unfortunate," Bratton said at the press conference held at
the Red Hook Justice Center, where both he and de Blasio took aim at the
outgoing administration's overuse of stop-and-frisk. "Stop-and-frisk is essential to every police department in America and it is also essential that it be done constitutionally."
