Houston is a world-class city pioneering crime-fighting strategies by combining existing ideas with an approach that is as unique as the city. Being the fourth-largest city in the United States poses ...

On Tuesday, the NYPD unveiled a new site where you can sift through and map every crime report in the city: It looks a little like Yelp, but for grand larceny. This is CompStat 2.0, successor to the ...

The crime analysis and accountability system known as Compstat, developed by the New York Police Department in 1994, is the most revolutionary public-sector achievement of the last quarter-century.

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 ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

One morning this week, Eric Adams sat down at a sidewalk table outside the Washington Square Diner, in the West Village. Two decades ago, at the end of his career in the N.Y.P.D., Adams had worked ...

With less than two weeks to go, the city is likely to end 2017 year with the fewest number of murders in any year since at least the 1950s. NYPD officials say a major reason is an approach to policing ...

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 ...

The affordable housing crisis isn’t new, nor is the destabilizing influence of tenant harassment. City and state government alike have recognized this crisis and allocated billions to try to reverse ...

Last month marked the safest March since New York City began computerized crime-tracking — even though there was a 20-plus percent surge in shooting incidents, the NYPD said Tuesday. Major crimes ...

I read with great interest the letter written by Kaniemo Alphonso under the heading ‘Wilson, broken window theory can solve crime problems’ (KN, October 22). The writer said that former Mayor of New ...

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 ...