Wilmington Police Chief Robert Tracy knows what CompStat — which stands for “comparison statistics” — is better than most. He helped create it in New York City, and used it in Chicago before coming to ...

William Bratton, who helped popularize a data-driven approach to crime-fighting embraced by cities nationwide, is returning to New York to serve as police commissioner.

A compliance evaluation by the City of Chicago Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found police watch operations lieutenants failed to complete required reviews of body camera footage, and the ...

It’s not reading, writing and math, it’s shootings, robberies and gangs. That was the priority Tuesday as Chicago Police held the first school-based CompStat meeting with police commanders ...

When policing stats do more harm than good: Column Pressure to raise numbers unjustly pushes police into minority neighborhoods — and into bloating crime statistics ...

The head of the Chicago Police Department has been fired amid widespread criticism over how authorities responded to the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer last year.

CompStat method will have principals, police holding weekly meetings to discuss crime-fighting strategies.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel discusses CompStat in this web extra video.

In Newark, a city with a murder rate about twice Chicago’s, McCarthy used CompStat—crime-tracking software favored by his friend and former boss, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton—and flooded ...

Compstat is a crime-fighting technique that was introduced to Chicago police back in June by Superintendent Garry McCarthy who brought it here from New York. Now police, school officials and the ...

Compstat is a crime-fighting technique that was introduced to Chicago police back in June by Superintendent Garry McCarthy who brought it here from New York. Now police, school officials and the ...

Compstat is a crime-fighting technique that was introduced to Chicago police back in June by Superintendent Garry McCarthy who brought it here from New York. Now police, school officials and the ...