William “Bill'' Bratton is renowned as one of the nation’s top law enforcement officers and one of the world’s most respected and trusted experts on risk and security issues. He currently serves as Executive Chairman of Risk Advisory at Teneo Holdings, where he advises clients on risk identification, prevention, and response in key security areas, including: cyber risk management, counterterrorism, crisis anticipation, critical infrastructure, and health crisis advisory. He also serves as the Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, offering his experience and expertise to provide the Secretary real-time, real-world, and independent advice to support decision-making across the spectrum of homeland security operations.
During his 46-year career in law enforcement, Bratton instituted progressive change while leading six police departments. He served two terms as the New York City Police Commissioner and seven years as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, making him the only person to have led the police departments of the two largest cities in the U.S..
Bratton established an international reputation for re-engineering police departments and fighting crime in the 1990’s. As Chief of the New York City Transit Police, Boston Police Commissioner, and New York City Police Commissioner, he revitalized morale and cut crime, achieving the largest crime declines in New York City’s history. At the NYPD in 1994 and 1995, he led the development of Compstat, the internationally acclaimed command accountability system now in use by police departments nationwide. Bratton also implemented major reforms to the NYPD’s counterterrorism program by developing two new units—the Critical Response Command and the Strategic Response Group.
As Los Angeles Police Chief from 2002 to 2009, and in a city known for its entrenched gang culture and youth violence, he brought crime to historically low levels, greatly improved race relations, and reached out to young people with a range of innovative police programs.
A noted author, commentator, and consultant, Commissioner Bratton was a Senior Executive Fellow in Criminal Justice and a member of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government National Executive Session on Policing. For his collaborative efforts in working with U.S. and British police forces, he was recognized by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with the honorary title Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE).
Bratton currently serves as a member of The Common Good Honorary Advisory Board, and he spoke at a Meet & Greet in 2014 at The Common Good.
Twitter: @CommissBratton
Selected Media:
Paging Bill Bratton - you're needed in Boston Boston Herald, 2019
Bill Bratton says no prosecute policy will usher in ‘return to bad old days’ Boston Herald, 2019
William Bratton, New York’s Influential Police Commissioner, Is Stepping Down 2016, New York Times
'Broken windows' police pioneer Bill Bratton steps down as NYPD commissioner to take job in private sector The Independent, 2016
William Bratton on Being New York's Policeman and a New Controversy Wall Street Journal, 2014
Bratton on City Journal podcast Policing on the Brink: A Conversation with William Bratton
Bratton for Teneo Insights Webinar: US Election Update
Bratton for Teneo Insights Webinar: COVID-19 and Crime in US Cities
Bratton for Teneo: Insider Threats: How Do You Keep “Out” What Emerges From Within?
Books:
1998: The Turnaround : How America’s Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic
2012: Collaborate or Perish! Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World
Upcoming: The Profession A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America, coming June 2021
