William Bratton, an American businessman and police officer, has a net worth of $500,000.
In October 1947, William Bratton was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Bratton currently holds the position of New York City Police Commissioner.
From 1993 to 1994, he was the Commissioner of the Boston Police Department, and from 1994 to 1996, he was the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department.
Bratton held the position of Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 2002 to 2009.
Bratton’s policies were credited with reducing petty and violent crime after he returned as Police Commissioner in New York City in December 2013.
He advocates for a police force that is diverse in terms of ethnicity, measures to combat police corruption, maintains good relationships with law-abiding citizens, and takes tough measures against gangs and anti-social behavior.
In 2011, he was proposed by British Prime Minister David Cameron to be the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner, but ended up taking on the role of an advisory role to the British government.
Bratton earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Turnaround: How America’s Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic was written by him in 1998.