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 ...

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 ...

In celebration of New York Magazine’s 50th anniversary, this series, which will continue through October 2018, tells the stories behind key moments that shaped the city’s culture. Dermot Shea has a ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Jan. 23, New York City announced a $75 million payout to settle a class-action lawsuit against the New York Police Department. The complainants successfully argued that the NYPD issued more than ...

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 ...

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 “crazy genius” who changed policing in this city forever now has a room all his own at 1 Police Plaza. Police Commissioner Bill Bratton rededicated the eighth floor CompStat meeting room in honor ...