Bratton Touts Crime Mapping Past As Top Cop Speculation Swirls

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Former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, whose name has been tossed around as a possible replacement for outgoing commissioner Ray Kelly, says he's not campaigning for the job but again raised speculation Tuesday at an event in Manhattan.

He spoke at a discussion hosted by Transportation Alternatives and NYU's Rudin Center for Transportation policy and management.

While offering his advice on transportation safety for the next mayor and police commissioner he took the time to tout his own accomplishments.

"I was a bit of a whiz kid in the Boston Police Department as a young Sergeant working in the Police Commissioners office during the development of the first computer systems," said Bratton. "When I was assigned in 1977 to go into the neighborhood of Boston, around Fenway Park, to establish one of the first neighborhood policing programs in that city and indeed one of the first community policing programs in the country - 20 years before that term was used. I would gather up all my statistics all my information about crime, my crimes maps. Even back in the 70's I was appreciating and understanding the importance of mapping."

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