NYC Police Commissioner William Bratton stepping down
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton is resigning his post atop the nation’s largest police force, after a tenure in which he received credit for keeping crime down and navigated tension between police and minority communities.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that Bratton will retire next month, and that James O’Neill, the department’s top chief, will succeed him. Bratton had said last month that he would not remain head of the NYPD past the end of de Blasio’s current term in 2017.
“We will never forget or fail to honor the achievements of Bill Bratton,” the Democratic mayor said, calling the commissioner’s contributions to the city “inestimable and extraordinary.”