Two academics have libeled the NYPD and every police officer who worked his or her butt off in the long, hard fight to make New York safer than the city has been in almost half a century. The wholly ...

In the face of rising gun violence in Chicago, the police department is expanding its CompStat program that analyzes crime trends. CompStat - from "computer statistics" - was created by the New York ...

Brooklyn’s new beep is about to bring an innovative crime-fighting tool to Borough Hall. Borough President Eric Adams plans to use CompStat, the data-driven model created during the 1990s — when Adams ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The NYPD captains’ union called for the end of CompStat, the program that tracks crime statistics for the department, calling it a policy that runs a “wedge between police and ...

The first time that P.J. Vogt, host of the Reply All podcast, heard about the crime-tracking computer program CompStat, he was watching the TV show The Wire. “I think they had a CompStat subplot where ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Unfortunately, two decades of marginal success demonstrate that ...

Most everyone in Wilmington has heard of CompStat, the performance management system that is credited, at least partially, for the drop in violent crimes in the city in 2018. Few seem to know what it ...

LOS ANGELES – Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Chief William Bratton, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) outgoing Superintendent Roy Romer and New York Mayor ...

It's not reading, writing and math, it's shootings, robberies and gangs. That was the priority Tuesday as Chicago Police held the first school-based CompStat meeting with police commanders, Chicago ...

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