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.

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

After a series of stabbings on Muni lines around the Mission District, including an attack on an 11-year-old boy, Compstat went to work. Chief George Gascon brought the police department's newly ...

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 ...

For sheer impact boosting public safety, New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton may never top his own Compstat crime-tracking system, launched 22 years ago. But he’s sure as hell trying. 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 ...

Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker and Police Director Garry F. McCarthy last week announced that the city has seen the fewest murders in 50 years in the time period between January 1 and May 1, 2009.

BOROUGHWIDE — In the wake of a shocking series of anti-Semitic incidents in New York City, the New York Police Department will start including hate crimes in its Compstat crime-tracking system, NYPD ...

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 ...