41 Quotes by William Bratton

I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting.

I was still a recruit in the Boston Police Academy when I attended my first police funeral. It was September 28, 1970. I remember it still.

Stop-and-frisk is not something that you can stop. It is an absolutely basic tool of American policing. It would be like asking a doctor to give an examination to you without using his stethoscope.

Many of the best parts of America's history would have been impossible without police. All the freedoms we enjoy - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear - sit on a foundation of public safety.

Quality-of-life policing is based on probable cause - an officer has witnessed a crime personally or has a witness to the crime.

I've spent my life in the police profession, and I'm proud of that. But I am also very cognizant of the profession's limitations, its potential for abuse, and its potential negative impact.

American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that's been a good thing.

If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence.

Some cops I don't like - the corrupt, the brutal.