With less than two weeks to go, the city is likely to end 2017 year with the fewest number of murders in any year since at least the 1950s. NYPD officials say a major reason is an approach to policing ...

From the common operating picture of the modern battlefield to food service program inventories, the use of data to drive activities is fairly commonplace among most organizations these days. It ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 has entered the 21st century with CompStat 2.0 — an interactive and updated version of its long-running crime tally system that’s now accessible to the public. Police Commissioner Bill ...

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 ...

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 ...

For sheer impact boosting public safety, New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton may never top his own Compstat crime-tracking system, launched 22 years ago. But he’s sure as hell trying. The ...

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 ...