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.

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Chief says data-driven strategy will guide real-time crime analysis and resource deployment across the city ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Mayor Bill de Blasio stands in front of a display during the announcement of CompStat 2.0 in 2016. Louise Wateridge/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images The NYPD captains’ union has called for ...

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 ...

New York City experienced its safest May in the history of the CompStat era, officials said Monday. CompStat began in 1995. “We had the safest April we’ve ever had, and May continues this good news,” ...

On Jan. 23, New York City announced a $75 million payout to settle a class-action lawsuit against the New York Police Department. The complainants successfully argued that the NYPD issued more than ...

What is the deal with New Yorkers? Here is Chris Smith on CompStat, the computerized crime-tracking system first used in New York: No New York invention, arguably, has saved more lives in the past 24 ...

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 ...