Career Highlights

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Career Highlights

• Boston Police Dept.
• The Mass. Bay Transit Authority
• The Metropolitan Police Dept.
• New York City Transit Police Dept.
• New York City Police Dept.

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Brattons Overall Management Strategy
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Boston Police DepartmentGuilty of
Institutionalism and Cultural Deviance

• Existence of a counter productive culture (Old
  Guard)
• Police Corruption
• Unethical Behavior
• Disconnected from needs of the community

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Corrective ActionsBegan Under Commissioner
Robert Di Grazia

• Changed Hiring and Promotion Practices.
• Improved Police Training Practices.
• Brought in Civilian Experts and Introduced New
  Policing Ideas.
• Created Community Out Reach Programs.

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Corrective Actions Brattons Contribution

• Instrumental in researching and coming up with
  procedures that made the Boston PD a More
  Proactive Department.
• Introduced Computer Applications into Policing
• Opened up the Department to the Community
• Used his Supervisory Positions to Motivate
  Officers through a Teamwork focused Crime
  Fighting Strategy

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Transit Police(Guilty of Institutionalism and
Oversight Failure)

• Organizational Issues
• Inadequate material and human resources
• Negative press
• Policing Problems
• High Subway Crime Fare evasion, disorder, and
  other serious crimes like robbery
• Police unable to manage the crime problem

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Corrective Actions By BrattonOrganizational
Issues

• Divided The Transit PD into two Bureaus.
• Promoted officers who where hard working and
  would foster a change of cultural ideologies.
• Re-connected Organizational Leadership to day to
  day activities and conditions.
• Improved moral by providing what officers needed
  so they would perform well.

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Corrective Actions By Bratton

• Policing issues
• Introduced fixing broken windows approach to
  policing.
• Created systems to monitor crime, COMPSTAT.

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Lessons Learned

• Importance of effective change
• Personnel, Organizational structure, Morale of
  the Troops
• Measure Results
• Understand the problems, Application of problem
  solving tactics and ideas
• Understanding the process
• Examining existing procedures for effectiveness

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The End Result

• The Response Able Organization