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 ...

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 ...

The controversy swirling around the NYPD‘s Compstat accountability system and its crime statistics has prompted Commissioner Raymond Kelly to name a panel of respected former prosecutors to examine ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On his final full day as the city’s top cop, outgoing Police Commissioner Bill Bratton presided over his last CompStat meeting — one of the keystones of his law enforcement legacy. “Needless to say ...

Most everyone in Wilmington has heard of CompStat, the performance management system that is credited, at least partially, for the drop in violent crimes in the city in 2018. Few seem to know what it ...

One Brooklyn pol wants to treat bad landlords like muggers and rapists. Announcing a lawsuit alleging tenant harassment against Kushner Companies on Monday, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The NYPD captains’ union called for the end of CompStat, the program that tracks crime statistics for the department, calling it a policy that runs a “wedge between police and ...

Mayor Giuliani said yesterday that if he is elected president in 2008, he will use the CompStat crime measurement system, employed during his eight years at City Hall, to improve the performance of ...