The Crime Numbers Game
Management by Manipulation
1st Edition
Published on 27. July 2017
282 pages
978-1-4665-5170-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 quic
Reviews / Votes
" ... 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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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Law enforcement professionals, police executives, academics, and public policy makers.
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
10 s/w Abbildungen, 3 s/w Tabellen
10 b/w images and 3 tables
File size
4,18 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4665-5170-1 (9781466551701)
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Content
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.
