The crime analysis and accountability system known as Compstat, developed by the New York Police Department in 1994, is the most revolutionary public-sector achievement of the last quarter-century.

After a series of stabbings on Muni lines around the Mission District, including an attack on an 11-year-old boy, Compstat went to work. Chief George Gascon brought the police department's newly ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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

The controversy swirling around the NYPD‘s Compstat accountability system and its crime statistics has prompted Commissioner Raymond Kelly to name a panel of respected former prosecutors to examine ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A strung-out-looking face appeared on the screen. Sgt. Vincent Anastasio took a good look. Three hours later, that good look took a burglar off the streets just as she hit town. The good look and the ...