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 ...

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 ...

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.

The crime fighting innovation that helped make New York into America's safest big city requires police officers to question not just suspects, but each other. On a recent weekday morning, Inspector ...

Can simply adding more police officers to the streets, or changing the ways in which they operate, actually reduce the rate of crime? A report from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, ...

It's not reading, writing and math, it's shootings, robberies and gangs. That was the priority Tuesday as Chicago Police held the first school-based CompStat meeting with police commanders, Chicago ...