The city’s former police commish is “tempted’’ to accept his old job back.
Bill Bratton told a newspaper in London, where he is lobbying to become the head of that city’s police, that he would love to return to the Big Apple — the second time in six months that he has expressed such a desire.
“If it were to be offered again, then I would be strongly tempted to take it,” Bratton, 65, told The Telegraph. “I’m flattered that, you know, 16 years later, they’re still comfortable with the idea of my coming back.”
He reportedly made similar comments in August after meeting with prospective mayoral candidates.
Bratton, who led the NYPD from 1994 to 1996 — the first two years of the Giuliani administration — has been credited with beginning the city’s historic decline in crime. He has also headed the Boston and LA police.