Bill Bratton

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New York police commissioner William Bratton is pictured while New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announces Bratton’s retirement. Photograph: Reuters
Outoing head of NYPD appointed director of Teneo Risk

Teneo Holdings, the advisory firm run by Irishman Declan Kelly, has appointed New York’s outgoing police commissioner Bill Bratton (68) as director an(...)

Dallas Police Chief David Brown said he was convinced any hesitation in giving the go-ahead to kill the shooting suspect on Thursday night would have allowed the gunman the chance to harm more police officers. Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA
Dallas police chief defends use of lethal force on shooting suspect
  • US
  • July 10, 2016

The chief of the Dallas Police Department on Sunday vigorously defended the use of a bomb mounted on a robot to kill a gunman who shot to death five p(...)

CIA director John Brennan, whose own email account was breached by hackers. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Debate reopens on ‘back-door key’ to encrypted data
  • Europe
  • November 19, 2015, 01:00

As the world continues to absorb the full impact of the murders of dozens of civilians by Islamic State attackers in Paris, officials on both sides (...)

A handout photo of New York police department officer Brian Moore, who died on Monday from injuries received when a man shot him in the head on Saturday. Photograph: New York Times
New York police officer shot in head dies from his injuries
  • US
  • May 5, 2015

A New York City plainclothes police officer who was shot in the head died on Monday, the fifth officer shot dead in as many months amid anti-law enfor(...)

Protesters rally outside the US district courthouse in Brooklyn, New York. Photograph: Chang W Lee/The New York Times
Ferguson counts cost after night of violence

The town of Ferguson in Missouri was counting the cost of a night of violence triggered by Monday night’s announcement that a grand jury decided not (...)

NYPD to test body cameras

New York City’s police commissioner has unveiled body cameras that his department will start testing soon, demonstrating the equipment by playing a sh(...)

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance and New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton announce the indictment of defendants in a Social Security fraud case. Photograph: Michael Appleton/The New York Times
More than 100 former New York police and firefighters charged over 9/11 fraud
  • US
  • January 9, 2014, 01:00

Eighty retired New York police officers and firefighters were charged yesterday in a suspected disability scam in which authorities said dozens of peo(...)

William Bratton is sworn in as the 42nd commissioner of the New York police department by New York mayor Bill de Blasio during a ceremony at police headquarters in New York earlier this week. Photograph; Mike Segar/Reuters
New York police commissioner is going to need exquisite balance

Bill Bratton’s biggest problem right now might not be stop-and-frisk. It might be stop-and-sulk. Given a new mayor who catapulted into office by casti(...)