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Title: The Compstat Paradigm: Management Accountability in Policing, Business and the Public Sector by Vincent E. Henry, William J. Bratton ISBN: 1-889031-15-1 Publisher: Looseleaf Law Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Compstat - From A to Z
Comment: Vincent Henry has written a book that is a valuable contribution to the understanding of Compstat.
Compstat was a 1996 winner of the Innovation in Government and has been listed as one of the major contributing factors to the "turn around" of police productivity in the New York Police Department in the mid-1990s.
Compstat has been the subject of several rumors, half truths and outright distortions. In a book whose audience is primarily college level students of policing and police management, Henry methodically explains the organizational context in which Compstat developed, actual implementation tactics and strategies used and assesses the future utility of the Compstat process in a variety of private and public settings.
Henry clearly establishes that Compstat is more than a "dog and pony show" or a staff meeting supplemented with computer graphics and statistical analysis. Rather it is one of several tools necessary to produce effective results in modern policing, " Compstat must be seen as one facet of a comprehensive and carefully orchestrated array of management strategies and practices".
This book is handicapped to an extent by the several audiences it serves simultaneously. First, nine of the ten chapters close with "Questions for Debate and Discussion", which serves the academic audience well but is bothersome to the general readers. Second, the use of sidebars tends to dilute the impact of the author's primary discussion at several points. However, the tenth chapter "The Compstat Paradigm: Summary of Basic Principles and Precepts" is one of the best short summaries of Compstat to be found anywhere in print. Those seven pages make the cost of the book worth very cent.
Rating: 5
Summary: The most comprehensive and thorough description of Compstat
Comment: The New York City Police Department has achieved great reductions in crime through the Compstat process. Major crimes have declined 66%, and homicides are down 77% since 1993. These statistics translate into thousands of lives saved and significantly improved quality of life for all the people of New York. Those who argue that factors other than the police were responsible for this decline ignore the significant institutional changes in the NYPD and its method of policing.
It was not simply hiring thousands of cops and putting them on the street, it was a matter of changing the way those cops worked. This involved not only technological change, such as the use of computer pin mapping, but also managerial and cultural change within the NYPD. The result was a more analytical and focused NYPD, a more responsive and flexible department, better able to serve the people of New York. Compstat was driving force behind those changes.
Vincent Henry is a friend and coworker of mine for ten years, since I was a student in his class at CW Post College. While he has academic credentials, he also has the experience and perspective of a street cop. He was well placed to observe significant developments in the NYPD and its strategies over the years. He has an in-depth knowledge of the history of the agency and the personalities involved in the development of Compstat. This background provides insight into the subtleties and nuances of Compstat (and the NYPD as a whole) that an outsider may miss. The Compstat Paradigm is not only a description of the development of Compstat, but also a history of the NYPD over the last two decades. This historical context increases understanding of the political and personal forces that influenced the development of Compstat.
I have attended dozens of Compstat sessions as both an observer and a participant. I have read other books on Compstat, including NYPD Battles Crime by Eli Silverman and Managing Police Operations: Implementing the NYPD Crime Control Model Using Compstat by Phyllis Parshall McDonald. The Compstat Paradigm is the most comprehensive and thorough description of Compstat available, and provides the best overview of what the Compstat process is, how it developed, and how it works in the New York City Police Department.
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Title: The Crime Fighter : Putting the Bad Guys Out of Business by JACK MAPLE, CHRIS MITCHELL ISBN: 0767905547 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 17 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic by William Bratton, Peter Knobler ISBN: 0679452516 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Managing Police Operations: Implementing the NYPD Crime Control Model Using COMPSTAT by Phyllis Parshall McDonald, Sheldon Greenberg, Williams J. Bratton ISBN: 0534539912 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company Pub. Date: 09 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities by George L. Kelling, Catherine M. Coles ISBN: 0684837382 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Problem-Oriented Policing and Crime Prevention by Anthony A. Braga ISBN: 1881798410 Publisher: Library Research Associates Inc Pub. Date: 30 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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