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 time has come for Houston to adopt a fundamental change in policing similar to programs implemented in New York City and Boston, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Austin, Seattle, Durham, Los ...

FAITH ARE STILL POWERFUL TOOLS AS JACKSON CONFRONTS VIOLENCE HEAD ON. NEW TONIGHT: THE JACKSON POLICE DEPARTMENT IS CHANGING HOW IT FIGHTS CRIME. UNDER CHIEF TYREE JONES, THE DEPARTMENT HAS MOVED TO ...

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 ...

Early each morning, computers spit out maps of Los Angeles, marked with red squares where a complex algorithm has judged that property crimes are most likely to occur. As police officers patrol the ...