Turnaround: How America’s Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic, by William Bratton - SIGNED

Turnaround: How America’s Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic, by William Bratton. 1998 hardcover. 329 pages, very nice condition. SIGNED by NYPD Commissioner William Bratton, with a bonus note from LAPD Commander Craig Valenzuela.

When Bill Bratton was sworn in as New York City's police commissioner in 1994, he made what many considered a bold promise: The NYPD would fight crime in every borough...and win. It seemed foolhardy; even everybody knows you can't win the war on crime. But Bratton delivered. In an extraordinary twenty-seven months, serious crime in New York City went down by 33 percent, the murder rate was cut in half--and Bill Bratton was heralded as the most charismatic and respected law enforcement official in America. In this outspoken account of his news-making career, Bratton reveals how his cutting-edge policing strategies brought about the historic reduction in crime.

This book was signed to Robert Philibosian, the presiding Los Angeles County District Attorney during the McMartin Preschool trial. One of the other prosecutors, Glenn Stevens, left the case in protest that other prosecutors had withheld evidence from the defense. Stevens accused Robert Philibosian of lying and withholding evidence from the court and defense lawyers in order to keep the Buckeys in jail and to prevent access to exonerating evidence. Philobosian was running a losing race to be re-elected at the time.