In the 1990s, Mr Bratton embraced data-driven "CompStat" policing, targeting the most blighted districts with huge numbers of officers.
We've also embraced data-based audience feedback loops, new reader participation tools and ways for marketers to publish on our platforms to interact with readers in new ways.
By keeping the systems simple, streamlined and efficient and showing staff the benefits, I have seen some sceptics embrace data.
Deskbound journalists, meanwhile, are embracing data and spreadsheets.Foreign Policy, a magazine, now runs "Democracy Lab", a website paid for by the Legatum Institute, a think-tank based in London.
They rely even more heavily than fixed-line operators on revenue from voice calls, and despite years of effort and the construction of new high-speed "third-generation" (3G) networks, they have been unable to convince their subscribers to embrace data services.This makes them extremely vulnerable to the spread of VoIP to mobile phones.
That may include enterprise companies that see the importance of embracing data and turning it into the "digital oil" that increasingly drives business.
What has not been said is that Facebook must embrace data science methodologies initially created in the bowels of the federal government to help protect its two billion users.
Organizations are rapidly embracing data science to help inform their decision making and generate an impact in their business or operations, whether it is in increased revenue, reduced costs, or improved efficiencies.
Getting one of the nation's most fragmented and conventional industries to trust a new online network and embrace data standardization will take a lot of time and iteration.
How might you begin to embrace data analytics and end the blame game?
While these are challenging goals, a modern justice system that embraces data and evaluation can indeed make real progress.
