Bill Bratton Started a Cops-Only Social Network Called "BlueLine Connect"
By Tessa Stuart
Bill Bratton, co-founder of BlueLine Connect and your new police commissioner
During his first stint as New York City police commissioner, Bill Bratton gained a reputation as an early tech adopter. He's the guy who introduced CompStat -- the statistical model that determines where crime will occur -- to the department.
CompStat has since spread to police departments around the country.
So maybe it shouldn't be surprising that during his time in the private sector (he stepped down as Los Angeles police chief in 2009) Bratton co-founded a social network exclusively for police officers, BlueLine Connect.
The service -- which reporter Darwin BondGraham included in last month's Voice roundup of Bratton's potential conflicts of interest -- launched in October, requires an official law-enforcement email to sign up the same way the early iterations of Facebook required a college one. Cofounder David Riker estimates the service has more than 10,000 users.
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