Editing CompStat (section)

==Origins==
CompStat (in [[NYPD]] it is said to be short for "compare stats",<ref>{{cite web|url= https://sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/lawenforcement/chpt/compstat|title= Compstat|website=Sage Reference|access-date=2025-05-01}}</ref> but in [[LAPD]] it is said to be short for “computer statistics”<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lapdonline.org/office-of-the-chief-of-police/office-of-special-operations/detective-bureau/compstat-division/|title=COMPSTAT Division|website=LAPD Online|access-date=2025-05-01}}</ref>) is a management system created in April 1994 by [[Bill Bratton]] and [[Jack Maple]], whom Bratton met while he was chief of the [[New York City Transit Police]] and later hired as the [[New York Police Department]]'s top anti-crime specialist when he became Police Commissioner in 1993.<ref name="Smith">{{Cite magazine |last=Smith |first=Chris |date=2018-03-02 |title=The Crime-Fighting Program That Changed New York Forever |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/03/the-crime-fighting-program-that-changed-new-york-forever.html |magazine=New York Magazine |language=en}}</ref> CompStat began as weekly meetings at [[One Police Plaza]] where officers were randomly selected from precincts and quizzed about crime trends in their districts and how to respond.<ref name="Smith"/> At the time, the NYPD collected crime statistics every 6 months; under threat of transfers, they began to collect information daily.<ref name="Smith"/>  In February 1994, the department heads provided a hand count of major crimes in the first 6 weeks of 1993 and 1994.<ref name="Eterno">{{Cite journal |last=Eterno |first=John A. |last2=Silverman |first2=Eli B. |year=2006 |title=The New York City Police Department's Compstat: Dream or Nightmare? |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1350/ijps.2006.8.3.218 |journal=International Journal of Police Science & Management |language=en |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=218–231 |doi=10.1350/ijps.2006.8.3.218 |issn=1461-3557|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Maple drafted junior staffer [[John Yohe]] to modify an existing program (known as "compare stats", and that name became the basis for the CompStat name<ref name="Eterno"/>) to analyze the data.<ref name="Smith"/>  It was originally run on [[Informix]]'s [[SmartWare]] desktop office system before being replaced by [[Microsoft]]'s [[FoxPro]] database for business.<ref name="Eterno"/> The Patrol Bureau's staff computerized the information provided by department heads and created the first 'CompStat' book, collating the information by precinct, patrol borough, and city.<ref name="Eterno"/> The [[New York City Police Foundation]] significantly funded the NYPD's initial development of the program;<ref name="Vitale">{{Cite journal |last=Vitale |first=Alex S. |year=2005 |title=Innovation and Institutionalization: Factors in the Development of “Quality of Life” Policing in New York City |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10439460500071754 |journal=Policing and Society |language=en |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=99–124 |doi=10.1080/10439460500071754 |issn=1043-9463|url-access=subscription }}</ref> they also acquired and gifted the department the first CompStat system.<ref name="Walby">{{Cite journal |last=Walby |first=Kevin |last2=Lippert |first2=Randy K |last3=Luscombe |first3=Alex |date=2017-09-15 |title=The Police Foundation’s Rise: Implications of Public Policing’s Dark Money |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azx055 |journal=The British Journal of Criminology |volume=58 |issue=4 |pages=824–844 |doi=10.1093/bjc/azx055 |issn=0007-0955|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

The weekly CompStat sessions were initially open to the public and commanders would be denigrated by management if they had failed; three-quarters were dismissed over 18 months for failing to bring the numbers down.<ref name=":0"/> The sessions were closed to the public in the late 2000s but since 2010 have been more amiable with commanders sent DVD recordings of sessions for review.<ref name=":0"/>