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For all its glittering reputation, Bill Bratton is not the answer to solving the crisis on Britain 's streets

For all the complaints about its nerve to tell our police to do what Bill Bratton has certainly the right name for the job, as opposed to, say, Sir Hugh Orde, the sounds - in a good way - more like someone from Alan Hollinghurst novel one. The photographs of Chief Bratton, tanned and lean-jawed in his black, shiny belt LAPD uniform, also show us a man, it's easy to picture the flash of police lights, a captive Punk in an arm-lock, summoning a Tottenham / Peckham / Croydon PC with a tight ".? OK, buddy What next" \

It seems not impossible that these attributes are hard exactly what Mr Cameron has so prone to Bratton, from all the experienced, foreign ex-policemen, he could have recruited from around the world. Doesn 't The Social Animal , From another popular American, David Brooks, teach us that we act on unconscious impulses all the time? If Brooks can joke that he called his daughter, "President of the United States Brooks" Cameron 'could need confirmation of the attraction's an incredibly tough cop who is handy with the name incredibly explain Tough Cop. Nevermind that Supercop questioned police two years ago retired and is now going on in an executive suit and Hermès ties, doing lectures, dinners at Elaine 's and, as the president, Sales "trusted intelligence and scalable technology solutions," for a security firm called Kroll. But Bratton reserves, according to a

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True, for all we know, the miners' riots would have been far worse without an imported hate-figure, London would be impassable but for Kiley's efforts and Livingstone's only mistake, as with David Cameron, was in not replacing himself with a "proven success from overseas".