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When William J. Bratton takes over as commissioner of the New York Police Department early next year, he will inherit the country's most powerful local counterterrorism force, but one that has alienated the city's large Muslim community.
"We need to heal some of the wounds, reopen the communications and the partnership," Bill de Blasio (D), the mayor-elect, said Thursday while introducing Bratton, 66, as the next police commissioner at a news conference.
Bratton will have his hands full in this role of healer-in-chief as he reassures New York's Muslim community and other minorities that they will not be racially profiled.