Mayor for a New America by Thomas M. Menino

Author:Thomas M. Menino
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Repudiating his own commission (“I know more about the neighborhoods than Mr. St. Clair”), Flynn appointed Roache to another five-year term but, acknowledging his management shortcomings, named Bill Bratton, then head of security for the transit authority (the “T”), “superintendent in chief.”

The St. Clair Commission issued thirty-six separate recommendations in areas ranging from internal affairs to information technology. Bratton moved to implement thirty-one of them, including neighborhood policing, beginning a pilot program in Dorchester.

The two-headed BPD divided into two camps: one for Roache and the status quo; one for Bratton and change. Paul Evans sided with the reformers. Roache stopped speaking to him. Bratton got more drastic treatment: Commissioner Roache barricaded the door connecting his office with the superintendent in chief’s.

After Roache resigned to run for mayor, Boston had Bratton’s attention for only a few weeks when New York came calling. Paul Evans inherited a divided and drifting department. My mandate to him was to close the breach that the Stuart case had opened between the police and the African American community.

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