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LOS ANGELES — Chief William J. Bratton announced Wednesday that he would leave the Los Angeles Police Department after nearly seven years to lead a private international security firm.
At a City Hall news conference here, Mr. Bratton said he was resigning effective Oct. 31 to become chief executive officer of Altegrity Security Consulting, a new unit of Altegrity, whose headquarters are in New York.
The company conducts background checks for the United States government around the world and serves as a consultant on matters of policing to other national governments, including those of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The move comes only weeks after Mr. Bratton convinced a federal judge to phase out the federal oversight of the department after the success of anticorruption measures and safeguards against police brutality that will remain in place. Those reforms were instituted in the wake of a series of scandals that took place before Mr. Bratton arrived.
Mr. Bratton, 61, brought the same data-driven approach to allocating police resources that won him praise as chief of the New York City Police Department in the early ’90s. Mr. Bratton’s plainspoken, media-friendly style was a stark contrast with predecessors like the combative Daryl F. Gates, who presided during the 1992 riots, and Bernard C. Parks who often clashed with the mayor and city council.
Mr. Bratton came to Los Angeles at one of the lowest points in the police department’s history. The department had been shaken by the Rodney King beating, in March 1991, and the subsequent riots, the failure of the prosecution of O.J. Simpson due, in part, to tainted evidence, and widespread police corruption in the 1990s. .
Mr. Bratton worked alongside federal monitors and the civilian police commission to institute new measures to hold officers more accountable, while working to improve police services using real-time crime mapping systems and a robust program of constant briefings up the chain of command.
The approach, along with the hiring of thousands of police officers, is credited with a decrease in crime every year of Mr. Bratton’s term.
By SOLOMON MOORE
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/us/06bratton.html?em
At a City Hall news conference here, Mr. Bratton said he was resigning effective Oct. 31 to become chief executive officer of Altegrity Security Consulting, a new unit of Altegrity, whose headquarters are in New York.
The company conducts background checks for the United States government around the world and serves as a consultant on matters of policing to other national governments, including those of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The move comes only weeks after Mr. Bratton convinced a federal judge to phase out the federal oversight of the department after the success of anticorruption measures and safeguards against police brutality that will remain in place. Those reforms were instituted in the wake of a series of scandals that took place before Mr. Bratton arrived.
Mr. Bratton, 61, brought the same data-driven approach to allocating police resources that won him praise as chief of the New York City Police Department in the early ’90s. Mr. Bratton’s plainspoken, media-friendly style was a stark contrast with predecessors like the combative Daryl F. Gates, who presided during the 1992 riots, and Bernard C. Parks who often clashed with the mayor and city council.
Mr. Bratton came to Los Angeles at one of the lowest points in the police department’s history. The department had been shaken by the Rodney King beating, in March 1991, and the subsequent riots, the failure of the prosecution of O.J. Simpson due, in part, to tainted evidence, and widespread police corruption in the 1990s. .
Mr. Bratton worked alongside federal monitors and the civilian police commission to institute new measures to hold officers more accountable, while working to improve police services using real-time crime mapping systems and a robust program of constant briefings up the chain of command.
The approach, along with the hiring of thousands of police officers, is credited with a decrease in crime every year of Mr. Bratton’s term.
By SOLOMON MOORE
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/us/06bratton.html?em
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