The controversy swirling around the NYPD‘s Compstat accountability system and its crime statistics has prompted Commissioner Raymond Kelly to name a panel of respected former prosecutors to examine ...

Compstat emerged in the mid-90s as a nifty computerized tool designed to track the most serious crimes in New York City. Initial Compstat meetings found New York's finest analyzing statistics from the ...

The crime analysis and accountability system known as Compstat, developed by the New York Police Department in 1994, is the most revolutionary public-sector achievement of the last quarter-century.

Since its inception in New York City in 1994, CompStat — short for comparative or computer statistics — has gained considerable recognition for its role in knowledge-based law enforcement. Used by ...

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 ...

The real reason the NYPD named its legendary crime fighting computer tool CompStat was because it was snowing like crazy in the city the night of Feb. 11, 1994. As the storm intensified, Sgt. Eugene ...

A strung-out-looking face appeared on the screen. Sgt. Vincent Anastasio took a good look. Three hours later, that good look took a burglar off the streets just as she hit town. The good look and the ...

With less than two weeks to go, the city is likely to end 2017 year with the fewest number of murders in any year since at least the 1950s. NYPD officials say a major reason is an approach to policing ...

Houston is a world-class city pioneering crime-fighting strategies by combining existing ideas with an approach that is as unique as the city. Being the fourth-largest city in the United States poses ...

THE most successful program ever devised to combat inertia in an urban bureaucracy is just too, well, it’s just too damn manly for the chancellor of New York City’s schools and his staff. You might ...

A New York City police union wants the NYPD to put an end to Compstat —the statistics-based crime tracking model that has been a backbone of the police department’s strategic planning since 1994. In a ...

One morning this week, Eric Adams sat down at a sidewalk table outside the Washington Square Diner, in the West Village. Two decades ago, at the end of his career in the N.Y.P.D., Adams had worked ...