NAMPA, Idaho — A new style of policing is reducing overall crime rates in Nampa, according to police officials. In June, the Nampa Police Department switched over to CompStat policing. This gives the ...

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 ...

Chief Jacobson (second from right) exchanges gifts with Police and General Boron at Thursday's CompStat meeting. Credit: Maya McFadden Photo After hearing from city police Sgt. Paul Finch about the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

NORRISTOWN >> The Norristown Police Department will be conducting a public Compstat meeting at the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit, 2 W. Lafayette St., in Norristown, Wednesday, July 25 from 5:30 ...

A New York City police union wants the NYPD to put an end to Compstat —the statistics-based crime tracking model that has been a backbone of the police department’s strategic planning since 1994. In a ...

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 ...

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 ...

As New York police commissioner in the 1990s, William J. Bratton — one of the authors of this column — revolutionized policing with CompStat, a system that helped track and map crime in the city. Less ...

NORRISTOWN >> Ever wondered why there seems to be more police patrols around a certain block, what happened after officers canvased your neighborhood about a burglary or what the crime statistics are ...