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William Bratton and the NYPD : crime control through middle management reform / Andrea R. Nagy & Joel Podolny.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: [London] : SAGE, 2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781473973992 (ebook) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.406 23
Online resources: William Bratton, commissioner of the New York Police Department from 1994 to 1996, presided over a dramatic decline in the city's crime rate. Hired by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as part of a new crime fighting initiative, Bratton embraced the 'broken windows' theory that had made him so successful as chief of the city's transit police. This case examines the effectiveness of his approach.
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Originally Published in: Nagy, A. R., & Podolny, J. (2008). William Bratton and the NYPD: Crime Control through Middle Management Reform. 07-015. New Haven, CT: Yale School of Management, Yale University.

William Bratton, commissioner of the New York Police Department from 1994 to 1996, presided over a dramatic decline in the city's crime rate. Hired by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as part of a new crime fighting initiative, Bratton embraced the 'broken windows' theory that had made him so successful as chief of the city's transit police. This case examines the effectiveness of his approach.

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