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.

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 ...

Compstat emerged in the mid-90s as a nifty computerized tool designed to track the most serious crimes in New York City. Initial Compstat meetings found New York's finest analyzing statistics from the ...

Police chief Bill Bratton unveiled the new CompStat center Tuesday by acknowledging the contributions of detective Jack Maple, who created the system in 1994 (inset, right, with Bratton in 1995).

On a recent weekday morning, Inspector Carlos Valdez stood nervously behind a podium as more than 200 top NYPD cops grill him about a surge in robberies and burglaries in the 40th Precinct 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 first of what police Chief George Gascón plans as a twice-monthly meeting to discuss crime statistics and police performance will be on Oct. 21. The four-hour CompStat meeting is open to the ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --Bill Bratton started his last full day leading America's biggest police department by attending his final CompStat meeting. The gathering is held weekly at 8 a.m. to review the ...

The suspect’s mug shot flashed on the screen. “Who is this guy?” the chief asked. Responded the neighborhood’s top cop: “You know, he’s a little bit of an enigma.” The conversation didn’t end there.

Screen after screen flashed at the front of the room. The PowerPoint presentation updated crime numbers, mapped criminal activity and included pictures of suspects under suspicion once again. Like ...

Two academics have libeled the NYPD and every police officer who worked his or her butt off in the long, hard fight to make New York safer than the city has been in almost half a century. The wholly ...