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.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK — There are calls for CompStat, a ...

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

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK — Monitoring the crime in your ...

Brooklyn: Re “NYPD Captain’s union: End Compstat now” (June 24): Compstat was the brainchild of Jack Maple, who sold the idea to Police Commissioner Bill Bratton. It was ill-advised and has caused ...

On Jan. 23, New York City announced a $75 million payout to settle a class-action lawsuit against the New York Police Department. The complainants successfully argued that the NYPD issued more than ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the common operating picture of the modern battlefield to food service program inventories, the use of data to drive activities is fairly commonplace among most organizations these days. It ...