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 ...

The NYPD is one of the most professional police organizations in the world. Commissioner Raymond Kelly continues to lead the department with unbounded integrity. We respect the courage and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK — There are calls for CompStat, a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK — Monitoring the crime in your ...

Brooklyn’s new beep is about to bring an innovative crime-fighting tool to Borough Hall. Borough President Eric Adams plans to use CompStat, the data-driven model created during the 1990s — when Adams ...

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 (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.

In the 1990s, as New York City’s crime rate climbed, the NYPD turned to statistics—creating CompStat—to predict patterns and better fight crime. In 2015, as violence has surged in New York City’s ...

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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 Spokane Police Department held their first-ever public Compstat meeting Wednesday morning. Compstat is the crime data reports the department releases weekly on their website. "Crime stat numbers ...

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 ...