Foundation and or douglas and Sarah Allison auditorium. Of course we welcome those are joining us on her heritage. Org website on all of these occasions as well as of those joining us on the cspan networks. We would ask everyone in house to be so kind to check that are mobile devices have been silenced or turned off as a courtesy. And, of course, for those watching online youre welcome to send questions or comments at any time simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. We will of course posted his program on the heritage homepage for everyones future reference as well. Leading our program today and welcoming and introducing our special guest is heritage Ronald Reagan distinguished fellow emeritus, chairman of the light legal center as well as the 75th attorney general of United States edwin meese. [applause] thank you, john. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I join john in looking to the Heritage Foundation and particularly for this program today. Heritage has over the years done a great deal in the policing, Law Enforcement, and Public Safety areas and we certainly are very pleased to have our keynote speaker today. Particularly a pleasure for me to introduce him as weve known each other for a number of years. Believe it or not i think we first met when were both at harvard, believe it or not, for the executive session in policing that they had some years ago. The United States has had many fine Police Chiefs over the last century or more, but there were some that i would call the kind of their exclusive group. Of the finest people without an impact on the Police Profession through an entrepreneurial spirit and with a good deal of imagination and innovation in improving policing in the United States. De it goes back actually almost a century ago, the chief of police in berkeley, california, kind of interesting thats where improved policing started and deal with whats going on today. He was also chief of police for a brief time in los angeles. S. And then in the middle of the last century, bill parker in los angeles and stanley in cincinnati, and they were followed by wilson in chicago and pat murphy in new york, detroit and washington, d. C. I want to say theres no question that these leaders in Police Excellence formed a distinguished group in which todays keynote speaker as an innovator, as an imaginative leader and as a person who has done very much uniquely, has had a unique place in policing excellent in this country, and has in many ways has had a unique career that is very difficult for anyone i think to follow and duplicate what he has done. Hes headed six Police Departments, including some ofof the largest, two largest in the country. He has done an outstanding job in all of the Police Department he has headed, and has really set a standard for policea stana leadership. He has in the sense invented language. Nobody knew there was such a thing as comps that in chile came along comstat. And now almost every large Police Department in the country using some form of comstat. In addition he has had in all of the departments in which is provided leadership, three results in each one. The first has been improved policing. The second has been decreasedin crime. And the third has been better relationships between the community and the police. This is a terrific record and thats why were so pleased to t have him here today. I could say more about him but i think you want to listen to him and he think it will be well worth your attention to hear what he has to say about policing in the 21st century. Ladies and gentlemen, its my pleasure to introduce my friend and an outstanding leader of the lawenforcement profession, bil] bratton. [applause] good morning. It is a good morning. General, i want to thank you for that more than gracious introduction. The general and i do go back a long way. We first met at the Harvard KennedySchool Executive sessions on policing, late 80s, early 90s. I was the chief of the superintendent of the metropolitan police in boston at the time, the state police agency. The executive sessions more soet just but any other government activity that im aware of over the last 50 years shaped american policing and shaped it for the better. We are still in profession that is developing, evolving continually, but a major revolution was created during those sessions. But widely known was the generals role in that. As attorney general to the National Institute of justice, it was funded and a Republican Administration funding an executive session one of the most liberal colleges, universities in the United States created what effectively was Community Policing. Kennedy policing that oftentimes, the politicization we often time bring to these issues was hard to associate with democratic administrations of the 90s, with effectively created by funding and active participation of the Reagan Administration but in the person of the attorney general who attended, despite his incredibly busy schedule, every session of that over many years. So hes to be applauded and i am an extraordinary admirer of them. It is an unheralded accomplishment on his part and a welcome the opportunity today to remind people just how instability was personally in his capacity as attorney general in helping to point americaner policing in a very defining way at a very difficult time in history of our country. I thanke thank him for the secoe inviting me here to the Heritage Foundation to give a speech on this issue. First time was 1996 and october 21 years ago. I had shortly before left the nypd, working with mayor giuliani, and this time i have been out of the nypd for the second of having worked for mayor bill de blasio. Two individual from totally different spectrums, republican conservative, progressive liberal democrat. Myself, i thought i could work with anybody, and so by giving those two examples i think thats Proof Positive that i can. I want to acknowledge the importance been distributed today that i was not able to attend the symposium held earlier this year by the Heritage Foundation, and the number of reports that came from that. I had the opportunity to read all of them. They help for my prepared remarks as well so my extemporaneous i will make in some of the questions that will follow. I was very taken with the substance of them all, and some in particular. Some written by very close colleagues of mine, Garry Mccarthy from chicago, former chicago pd, nypd, extraordinary piece on the issue of bias and race on this issue. Noble contributed significantly. Chip stewart several papers he put in. And again i think those people for their continuing contributions of the dialogue. I see chuck wexler. Chuck and i worked togetheron ad since 1975, now director of her picking interested in these issues and if the monthly over the years to be affiliated with perf. Hopefully today will be the opportunity to discuss as they say in the paper policing in america, lessons from the past, opportunities for the future. I think i can speak to the past, speak to the common situation and offer some thoughts Going Forward with her so much contention at the moment about where do we need to go at this particular point in time. The remarks, the comments are mine. I been in the business for almost 50 are starting with three years in a military polie in 1967. I think ive seen the arco policing over this incredible time, continue evolution with many periods of revolution. Community policing initiative the attorney general ed was one of those revolutions. Comstat was another. Ill talk about several others. With that introduction, i thank you once again, attorney general. The company i only work with works almost exclusively with the private sector. So ironically after 50 years i i am very limited in my involvement with policing wheren i put most of my life but the private sectors needs are the same as the needs of american policing getting out in the 21st century terrorism, even with cybercrime issues, social Mission Social Media issues. The combination between private and public is effectively what Community Policing was all about. The idea of collaboration that we all of shared interests. With that let me speak to you about the paper i am presenting. First let me give you the title, cops down, Police Matter, preventing crime and disorder in a 21st century, preventing crime and disorder. They are linked. I passionately believe that preventing crime and disorder is the key to successful policing, rather than measurement of our response to it. And it has been since sir robere peel articulated nine principles of the profession of policing. My original copy of those nine principles of policing. They are effectively my bible, my foundation written in 1829 they are more relevant today of the 21st century than they were back in 1829. His first principle is the basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent, i emphasize prevent, crime and disorder. The three go together. More importantly, when they go together they are successful. Its a large part of our history, particularly over these last 50 years they did not. So in the 70s and 80s we lost our way. The 90s with the guidance ofhea the Community Policing initiative. We got back to the basic mission for which the police exist. The ninth principle is a test of the police efficiency, is the absence of crime and disorder. Not the visible evidence of Police Action and eating with it. Meaning if you can reduce crime and disorder of the need for police to be seen effectively engaging in the suppression of crime and disorder, their time can be spent more effectively and more productively collaborating with communities working together. The idea, the visibility of enforcement, generates a much of the hostility. In todays 21st century world of videos, theres not a week because by where police are using force and the video representation of the force whether its lawful, if it looks lawful it pulses of our resin brings us together. If we can use comedies or to such an extent we can reduce police use of force, that will bring us a long way towards bringing us together. I believe that nine principles have been key long before they were first enunciated in 1829. For as long as society and democratic governments have trusted and apart some of its a citizens, we the police and we are a Citizen Police of this country, to keep other safe. In our country the first obligation of government is Public Safety. Its in our constitution, our declaration of independence, our bill of rights. Public safety. That obligation is fulfilled principally in our criminal Justice System and most visibly with the role and responsibly of the police. Cops count, Police Matter is a term ive used in the first using the lapd in 2003 as part of the rebuilding of that very damaged organization. It could effectively ceased to police the city of los angeles. Crime was rising. Spirits were low, morale was deplorable and as a way the inspiring that department came up with that mantra. In simple terms it means the individual actions of cops count, good and bad, and that the actions of Police Departments in the Police Profession good and bad matter. Cops count, Police Matter. We can assure those actions of good more often than bad are always guided by what ive described as the three seas. We need a police constitutionally. Cant break the law to force it. We need police compassion. We are policing fellow citizens that we are policing people. We need to police consistently, not police tivoli and poor neighbors mark my neighbors and we might invite waiver it or rich neighborhoods. Rh and at all times increasingly in the 21st century with the advent of cameras and we need to police with transparency. They can be no denying too much of our history, particularly in our relations with African Americans are actions and those of our government that direct of those actions were shaped by our countrys original sin. The spirit of slavery. Nearly 300 use of slavery on this continent come more than 100 years of jim crow laws following, a terrible National Legacy we still deal with today. Likewise many of our actions with immigrants, legal and illegal, with the native americans whose land this was first end with other marginalized groups were oftens shaped by societal and political prejudice, racism, bigotry andun homophobia. But policing and the last quarter of this 20th century and now into the 21st is changing for the better more rapidly and so fundamental ways, and ive been part and privileged to be part of that change. In that regard we the police need to shape the narrative, the opinions and the rhetoric. We have not been doing that very well. We need to write the real American Police story, blemishes and all. Under no circumstance can we allow it to be framed primarily by those who dont like us, respect us, or trust us. Nor do we allow to be framed by those who seek to advance beliefs and social agendas by denigrating the heartfelt, reasonable, practical and effective efforts of Police Leadership that change and to prepare up an associate with Police Leadership for most of my career. I know many of the Police Leaders of the past and of today. They are an Extraordinary Group of progressive thinkers who face these issues with open mind and a determination of pride in the profession and to determination to really help address the main issues that police are expected to address, plus the many others that by default have fallen to us. Police can and must stay focused not only on the prevention of crime but also disorder. There has been great debate about the concept of open windows and quality of life. I say to you it is essential toe effective policing that we focus on both crime serious and we focus also at the same time on quality of life here that you go together. In the 70s and 80s separated them. We saw the disaster of 1990. Police prevent crime and they prevent disorder. They do so by changing behavior, and that is so incredibly important. They do so with targeted enforcement, not indiscriminate enforcement. With immigration sweeps of people who have done nothing but intricate illegally, even though that is a crime. They do so by working with prosecutors who seek full force that fair sentencing. Not a return to harsh guidelines that limiting judicial discretion and fill prisons with people who can be dealt with michael effectively another by this. They do so with neighborhood engagement where police work with people to prevent problems. That simple, it really is that simple. We have made it too complex. I spent 50 years in the profession of policing as a military policeman in vietnam, starting any patrol car, walking the beat an allblack neighborhood in boston. Spent two years before was an all white jewish neighborhood but through the real estate bussing to win on in the city at that time, and then spent the next number of years did with desegregation of schools, desegregation of Public Housing in one of the most segregated parts of the city of america, perhaps even more segregated many in the south at that time. As a leader and change agent at six different Police Departments, one, 60 Police Officers, another with 38,000. So basically manage or directed or that Police Departments of every size in this country. During that time the depression has swung like a pendulum from prevention and response and back to prevention. Without false modesty i believe i played a large role with many of my colleagues to swing back the focus on prevention. That occurred essential begin in ththe 1990s. That was, in fact, reinforced by the efforts of the executive session focusing effort back on prevention and not on response. My concern is we may be swinging back. I watched with great concern the pendulum back to the days of the 70s and 80s. We dont need to go that way. We have found in the 90s and in a 21st century other ways to do it. American Police Chiefs in particular understand that because they been living it. If we see history a as a pendulm we can see the swing away from prevention in the 1960s, away from the model of the cop on the beat who took active steps at times discretion of steps to maintain order and prevent crime. Sir robert peel. While the idolize officer friendly as a cop on the beat of which will be even kept the neighborhood beat, or for that matter my personal hero, detective joe friday of the Los Angeles Police of the 50s and 60s, who focused on responding to crime but never with compassion. No sergeant joe friday put his arm around anybody. He solved the kind of basically the lapd model at the time was response oriented you keep your distance from the public. We must acknowledge efforts of Crime Prevention in the air were not always fair nor just. As kelly has been a friend and advisor for most of my police life and james wilson by the privilege before his passing to spend a lot of time within. Aas a poi