One morning this week, Eric Adams sat down at a sidewalk table outside the Washington Square Diner, in the West Village. Two decades ago, at the end of his career in the N.Y.P.D., Adams had worked ...

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 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.

Houston is a world-class city pioneering crime-fighting strategies by combining existing ideas with an approach that is as unique as the city. Being the fourth-largest city in the United States poses ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, the NYPD unveiled a new site where you can sift through and map every crime report in the city: It looks a little like Yelp, but for grand larceny. This is CompStat 2.0, successor to the ...

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 ...

Brooklyn: Re “NYPD Captain’s union: End Compstat now” (June 24): Compstat was the brainchild of Jack Maple, who sold the idea to Police Commissioner Bill Bratton. It was ill-advised and has caused ...