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Comment by William J. Bratton

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Former NYPD and LAPD police chief
We have a number of predictive-policing initiatives underway [...] It is 21st-century policing – it’s great.
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Ban predictive policing
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AI Verified The quote is directly about predictive policing and expresses clear support for it (“initiatives underway… it’s great”), which indicates opposition to banning predictive policing. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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AI Verified The quote praises predictive-policing initiatives as "21st-century policing" and says "it’s great," which clearly opposes banning it. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago

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AI Verified Verified. The official NYC Mayor’s Office transcript for the Jan. 4, 2016 press conference contains Commissioner Bratton saying, “We have a number of predictive-policing initiatives underway ... It is 21st-century policing – it’s great,” which matches the quoted wording with only omitted middle text. The transcript identifies the speaker as Commissioner William Bratton, i.e., William J. Bratton. An INFORMS article also cites the same NYC source URL for this transcript. ([a860-gpp.nyc.gov](https://a860-gpp.nyc.gov/downloads/kw52jb36c?locale=en)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable The source URL (nyc.gov press release 006-16) returned HTTP 403 Forbidden and could not be fetched. Web searches did not surface the exact quote text "It is 21st-century policing - it's great" verbatim from that specific January 2016 press conference, though Bratton's strong advocacy for predictive policing is extensively documented (he co-founded CompStat, championed PredPol/HunchLab testing at NYPD). Vote alignment is correct (against "Ban predictive policing" - Bratton was a vocal proponent). Marking ai_unverifiable since the primary source URL itself blocks AI fetching. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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