For more than a decade, coteries of academics, and ex-cops who became academics, have been selling the idea that CompStat, the police command accountability and crime strategy system developed in the ...

For more than a decade, coteries of academics, and ex-cops who became academics, have been selling the idea that CompStat, the police command accountability and crime strategy system developed in the ...

NAMPA, Idaho — A new style of policing is reducing overall crime rates in Nampa, according to police officials. In June, the Nampa Police Department switched over to CompStat policing. This gives the ...

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 ...

Chief Jacobson (second from right) exchanges gifts with Police and General Boron at Thursday's CompStat meeting. Credit: Maya McFadden Photo After hearing from city police Sgt. Paul Finch about the ...

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 ...

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 ...

NAMPA — In its first quarter of a different approach to policing, the Nampa Police Department has already seen a decrease in crime. It’s always been the goal of the department to be proactive in its ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The president of an NYPD union is calling for dramatic changes at the nation's largest police department and says other recent decisions have led to an "inevitable" spike in crime.

As New York police commissioner in the 1990s, William J. Bratton — one of the authors of this column — revolutionized policing with CompStat, a system that helped track and map crime in the city. Less ...