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 ...

When it comes to holding principals accountable in his effort to turn around struggling city schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to take a page out of the police playbook. The Department of Education ...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration has built on CompStat with new initiatives that make further use of the data. Starting Point The original CompStat model created a system that uses current, ...

A New York City police union wants the NYPD to put an end to Compstat —the statistics-based crime tracking model that has been a backbone of the police department’s strategic planning since 1994. In a ...

CompStat may have happened without Bill Bratton; but for my money, if one person deserves accolades for pushing the initiative largely credited with lowering New York City's crime rate, it's him.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Want to know how many robberies occurred on your block this year? Or how many car thefts were reported in your community the last month? The NYPD's CompStat 2.0 system has the ...

On a large overhead screen, red dots pepper a map of Spokane. Each dot marks a specific crime committed within the past week. Ryan Shaw, senior crime analyst for the Spokane Police Department, points ...

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