William Joseph Bratton CBE (born October 6, 1947) is an American businessman and former law enforcement officer who served two non-consecutive tenures as the New York City Police Commissioner (1994–1996 and 2014–2016) and currently one of only two NYPD commissioners to do so (the other is Raymond Kelly).

Police Chief William J. Bratton bid farewell Wednesday to the city and the members of the LAPD, saying he had "saved my best for last" as he prepares to end his 39-year police career.

Jan 25, 2019 · Bratton began his career in Boston, where he joined the police department in 1970 after serving three years in the U.S. Army’s Military Police during the Vietnam War. He was named chief of the New York City Transit Police in 1990, where he oversaw dramatic crime reductions in the subway system.

Sep 16, 2016 · William Bratton, the police commissioner who led departments in Boston, Los Angeles and New York and saw his crime fighting strategies copied across the nation, ended his unparalleled law...

Jan 9, 2025 · Enter Bratton, 77, who became a national voice on anti-terror planning during his policing and consulting career. Bratton served two stints as police chief in New York City, the first under...

William J. Bratton, who will step down two weeks from today, deserves to go down in history alongside William H. Parker as a reforming Los Angeles police chief whose administration marked a decisive and consequential break with the past.

"If you have a police chief that can't get crime down, get yourself a new police chief," he says. Bratton left New York as the world's most celebrated police chief.

Dec 5, 2013 · — 1990: Bratton becomes chief of the now-defunct New York City Transit Police Department. It is his first time serving in New York. — 1992: Bratton leaves New York to head the Boston Police...

May 12, 2021 · William J. “Bill” Bratton is America’s best-known and most experienced police leader, having served in leadership positions and as chief executive of numerous major police departments over his more than 50-year career in law enforcement.

Dec 5, 2013 · Nearly two decades after he last served as New York City police commissioner, William J. Bratton returns to find a Police Department reshaped by his predecessor, Raymond W. Kelly, and a...