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 ...

NEW YORK — There are calls for CompStat, a publicly available listing of crime data for seven different types of major crimes and six other crime categories, to be eliminated altogether because it has ...

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 ...

On a recent weekday morning, Inspector Carlos Valdez stood nervously behind a podium as more than 200 top NYPD cops grill him about a surge in robberies and burglaries in the 40th Precinct in the ...

Police chief Bill Bratton unveiled the new CompStat center Tuesday by acknowledging the contributions of detective Jack Maple, who created the system in 1994 (inset, right, with Bratton in 1995).

The NYPD has entered the 21st century with CompStat 2.0 — an interactive and updated version of its long-running crime tally system that’s now accessible to the public. Police Commissioner Bill ...

The first of what police Chief George Gascón plans as a twice-monthly meeting to discuss crime statistics and police performance will be on Oct. 21. The four-hour CompStat meeting is open to the ...

The suspect’s mug shot flashed on the screen. “Who is this guy?” the chief asked. Responded the neighborhood’s top cop: “You know, he’s a little bit of an enigma.” The conversation didn’t end there.

Screen after screen flashed at the front of the room. The PowerPoint presentation updated crime numbers, mapped criminal activity and included pictures of suspects under suspicion once again. Like ...

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 ...

HIGH-SPEED car chases, shoot-outs, dealing with politicians: life for a Los Angeles police officer can be trying. Yet for sheer stress little can compete with the ordeal of the Compstat meeting. Every ...

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