and out-of-town designations would restore competitive neutrality by harmonizing leasing rates with portable subsidies.
The Commission adopted the staff's proposal to deaverage leasing rates into four zones: Zone 1 (out-of-town); Zone 2 (out-of-town); Zone 3 (out-of-town); and a zone encompassing in-town areas. The Commission defined in-town areas as "cities, villages or unincorporated areas with 20 or more households and densities greater than 42 households per square mile" and defined out-of-town areas as the "remaining areas" in each zone "that have not been assigned to a town."
The Commission also adopted the staff's proposed deaveraging method, which had four basic steps. First, the existing leasing rates were multiplied by the number of loops in each zone to determine the "total cost" in each zone. Second, the percentage of "expected cost,"[7] calculatedand how they are allocated.

Mr. Bratton’s management style could not be more different from his two-time predecessor, Raymond W. Kelly, who has overseen sharp declines in crime over his 12-year tenure and has won both praise and criticism for the counterterrorism units he built from the ground up after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Mr. Kelly has concentrated almost all decision-making power in the 35,000-member department in his own hands. Mr. Bratton, on the other hand has been the quintessential delegator, pushing down authority to precinct commanders and giving more discretion to officers, both in his earlier time in New York and during his leadership of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Mr. Bratton will take over a New York force whose widespread use of stop-and-frisk tactics over the last decade drew