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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) --New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has dedicated the room where police brass are grilled over rising crime to the architect of the department's crime tracking ...

Will Bill Bratton, the pioneer of 'broken windows' policing and CompStat, be able to repair the NYPD's relationship with communities of color? Colorlines is the leading source for accessible media on ...

The affordable housing crisis isn’t new, nor is the destabilizing influence of tenant harassment. City and state government alike have recognized this crisis and allocated billions to try to reverse ...

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 ...

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 ...