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?EUR"one a former NYPD captain?EUR"who present the first in-depth empirical analysis of this management system?EUR"exposing the truth about crime statistic?EUR?s manipulation in the NYPD and the repercussions suffered by crime victims and those who blew the whistle on this corrupt practice.
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" ... 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
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Law enforcement professionals, police executives, academics, and public policy makers.
Illustrationen
10 s/w Abbildungen, 3 s/w Tabellen
3 Tables, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-4398-1031-6 (9781439810316)
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John A. Eterno, Eli B. Silverman
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John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA
Forewords by Sir Hugh Orde, OBE, QPM, President of the Association of Chief Police Officers for England, Wales and Northern Ireland and Commissioner Andrew Scipione, APM, New South Wales Police Force, Australia. The Unusual Suspects. The NYPD's Untold Story: Crime Report Manipulation. Performance Management: Pitfalls and Prospects. Police Performance Management: The View from Abroad. Big Bad Bully Bosses: Leadership 101. NYPD and the Media: Curbing Criticism. Compstat: Underpinnings and Implications. Silence Is Not An Option. Appendix. Index.
