CompStat, the crime fighting tool that helped turn New York into America's safest big city, requires police officers to question not just suspects but each otherApril ...

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 ...

The crime fighting innovation that helped make New York into America's safest big city requires police officers to question not just suspects, but each other. On a recent weekday morning, Inspector ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, with only hours left to his 46-year crime-fighting, offered a one-word assessment of his emotions — relieved. He was only half-kidding. “There’s a certain amount of ...

Can simply adding more police officers to the streets, or changing the ways in which they operate, actually reduce the rate of crime? A report from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, ...

When you see police out patrolling Spokane streets are they driving in circles or is there something that directs where officers focus their attention? The public got an inside look into the process ...

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 ...