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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The summer of 1991 brought the riots of Crown Heights, N.Y., and a "low point in morale" for the New York City Police Department, where a former cop characterized policing efforts as "mass confusion." ...

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.

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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 ...

Talk of crime in the San Fernando Valley helped inspire former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday as he embarked on a quest to overhaul the federal government. The Georgia Republican, who no ...

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 ...