In the mid-1990s, the NYPD created a performance management strategy known as Compstat. It consisted of computerized data, crime analysis, and advanced crime mapping coupled with middle management accountability and crime strategy meetings with high-ranking decision makers. While initially credited with a dramatic reduction in crime, questions quickly arose as to the reliability of the data. This volume brings together the work of two criminologists?EURO"one a former NYPD captain?EURO"who present the first in-depth empirical analysis of this management system?EURO"exposing the truth about crime statistic?EURO?s manipulation in the NYPD and the repercussions suffered by crime victims and those who blew the whistle on this corrupt practice.

About the Author
John A. Eterno, Eli B. Silverman

Reviews

" ... absolutely worth reading. It raises serious concerns which, if true, amount to a terrible management system which has been allowed to run amok-raising some frightening civil liberties issues. It should be read by anyone involved in law enforcement and public safety statistical analysis because it highlights many possible ways to game the system and then describes the unintended consequences of such gaming."
-Nick Selby, in Police-Led Intelligence

Book Information
ISBN 9781439810316
Author John A. Eterno
Format Paperback
Page Count 314
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
Weight(grams) 580g