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The top brass of the Philadelphia Police Department - as. U- shape. tables, one ring outside the other, in a half- lit room dominated by. He's sipping sweetened coffee and getting. Across the way, the heads of special crimes. Elsewhere. are perched representatives from SEPTA, the. Philadelphia Housing Authority and Amtrak. Saginaw, Mich. Invented by the New York Police. Department, Compstat is a marriage of computers and. Citywide, homicide is down 1. Complaints. against police, meantime, have fallen by more. For. decades, standard procedure was to classify. The less crime reported, the less work detectives. Philadelphia. was one big city that was safe. People who had spent entire careers working. I went back and asked the officer, `Why. He says, `The. guy . America Gets Its First Police Auto-Gyro. By Julie Beck posted Sep 12th. The AXS Cookie Policy. This website, like most others, uses cookies in order to give you a great online experience. By continuing to use our website you accept to our use of cookies. Alternatively, you can find out more about. For generations in Philadelphia, Timoney has said, uniformed. But under Timoney. It's who- what- where- when- how. I want. to see supervisors riding on these jobs. Aggravated assault with a gun. Less than a year. But at this. Compstat meeting in mid- November, there's. An. undercurrent of pride. Timoney has awakened the. Philadelphia. Police Department and introduced it to. He has. improved police training. He opened the department's. But he. didn't drain other resources to do it; police. He seems to be walking. Jack Mc. Ginnis, head of the Major Crimes Unit, a. And 9. 5 percent of. Joseph O'Brien, head. Police District (Oak Lane, Fern Rock, Olney) is next up. Compstat treatment. A savvy, 2. 7- year veteran. No discernible patterns. No. standout similarities. Probably a crime of. O'Brien says, with most of the stickups. Dunkin' Donuts is the. Then Eileen Bonner, captain of the Special. Victims Unit, recounts the rapes. When she. gets to the 1. Timoney, who has said little up. One. man has been arrested. We've. got to get out there and do whatever it takes. There is no mistaking the man's seriousness. He was an outsider, and the Philadelphia. Police Department abhors outsiders; only twice. Worse, this. new guy was also a New Yorker, about as welcome as. Giants fan in the Vet's 7. He'd be dogged by the. Fraternal Order of Police, a powerful union with a. He'd be undermined by an. Timoney came from big- city. Personified it, in fact. In 2. 9 years. with the NYPD, starting in the tough South Bronx and. NYPD's youngest- ever four- star chief. In 1. 99. 5, Commissioner William Bratton. Timoney oversaw the. NYPD's absorption of the transit and housing. Philadelphia's. He left the department. Mayor Rudolph. Giuliani's jealousy- tinged firing of Bratton. I'm just amazed that this type of. As a cop, that makes you. And You'll. never get that done. People are looking like. And. Costello worries that Rendell will prove less. Timoney's revolution than he has. Whyatt Mondesire, president of. NAACP of Philadelphia, who was a staunch. Richard. Neal. Mondesire gives Timoney's performance. B- minus. It came. One night Richman hung around. It's using our brains to attack the problem. For. decades, captains like Nestel and O'Brien. Eighth and. Race Streets, before risking anything close. Captains weren't allowed to be freethinkers. To add more, he. would need permission from the upper ranks. Dressing. officers in plainclothes is a key tactic against. So headquarters tended to say. The answer is good supervision. But you don't fold up your tent. In the busiest districts, they have. The catch is, Timoney puts. And he's encouraging. We weren't doing police work before. The thinking. was: Answer calls fast enough to catch crooks. Martin Taylor, who came on the force in 1. To build bridges. Commissioner Kevin M. Under Tucker's successors, Willie. Williams and Richard Neal, community policing. From a high of 8,5. Stung by. misconduct scandals, the depleted department became. Drug arrests fell from. Bratton, who became commissioner. The critics were not mollified by Rendell's. Philadelphia was among the. American big cities. A. solid, gentlemanly, taciturn cop, he had little feel for. CEO. He delegated very little. His. office was piled high with paperwork that he would. He insisted on making every decision - then. When Timoney took over, he. Timoney deputies. People who worked. Trumping his critics, who had demanded. New York City- style attack on crime, Rendell. Bratton's top deputy, John. Timoney. It's an insane system. I want to get them out. Kimmins. a veteran activist who heads Mantua Against. Drugs. And this is a department. Constitution and. Bill of Rights. At his swearing- in, he spoke - in Spanish! He said, in a brogue- Bronx. First Timoney went to roll. At one roll call he gave a commendation to an. The paperwork had been. Timoney asked the cop where. Timoney sent nearly. Patrol Division. Instantly, gritty old neighborhood police. It was the first round. Various. detective units reported to three different. There were four internal affairs units, . Five hundred. police officers were unaccounted for, squirreled. At. one point, Deputy Commissioner Sylvester Johnson. Commissioner's. Complaint Unit. Donta Dawson - Timoney withheld. Yet once the District Attorney's. Office charged Officer Christopher Di. Pasquale. with manslaughter in the Dawson shooting. Timoney did not hesitate to suspend the officer with. In. controversial cases, . I'm sure that no matter. I decide, some people are not going to be happy. In Philadelphia, cops. What came back from aides was less intelligible than. Internal Revenue Service regulations. He ordered. a rewrite. But the second effort . His workday. starts around 8 and stretches into the evening. What they do is discourage. A former Rhodes scholar from Quebec, Wasserman. London for the. British government. The two of them grin like kids. As if nothing could. Timoney pretends to tear it up. They met when Wasserman was doing. NYPD. Since moving to Philadelphia. But now and then, on a long run, he'll think back over. You know, there. are certain milestones that I've accomplished. Finding work as a doorman, he summoned. Timoney was. 1. 3 when he sailed into New York Harbor with his. His. father was waiting at the 5. Street pier, . Timoney and his brother, Ciaran, had. America of Elvis Presley, swimming. Instead, the cab came to a. Washington Heights. The. neighbor boys were out front playing a game, setting. We've left Ireland for this? Then his mother moved back with. But John, 1. 9, and Ciaran. John. earning money by washing dishes at a hospital. Didn't even like them. But during his senior year. Cardinal Hayes High School, he took the police exam. They all. joined the force. Put in your 2. 0 years and retire with. At 1. 9, too young to be a sworn officer. Precinct on. the tony East Side. His academy training was. But. he impressed his bosses with hard work in. South Bronx. He wooed Noreen, a cop's. Manhattan, by teaching. Four times a week, he played touch- tackle football. He seriously. considered switching careers when suburban. Tarrytown High School offered him a job. But then he. shot up the ladder. Brian Nicholson. one of Timoney's old crowd, using Timoney's. She now runs a small consulting. The couple's son, now 1. Lyme disease. and a serious knee injury. Their daughter. 2. The Timoneys. protective of their children's privacy, will. You keep stuff like that away. It probably. isn't good, but how else can you survive? So much still to do, so little time. Timoney. says he would love to stay, but the offer will have to. Rendell's successor. Maple told him that if he. Timoney. chancellor. But Jack was quite. They wouldn't know which way we were coming! I would have loved that challenge..
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