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7 results foundAuthor: Willis, James J. Title: Maximizing the Benefits of Reform: Integrating Compstat and Community Policing in America Summary: Compstat and community policing are both powerful tools that have been quite effective in police reform in the United States. But just how well do they work together? This report takes a look at the impact of these reforms when implemented simultaneously in the same police organization. While some have speculated that Compstat complements and supports community policing and even improves it, there is very little systematic evidence to support these claims. This report uses fieldwork data from site visits to seven U.S. police agencies to address this issue. Our principal finding that these reforms operated largely independently suggested to us that there were opportunities for making them work more closely with one another in ways that promise greater benefits than having them operate separately. Our goal is to challenge policymakers, practitioners, and scholars to reconsider the current relationship between Compstat and community policing and conceive of more innovative approaches to their co-implementation. As a starting point, we make four key recommendations for integration of these two powerful reforms. Details: Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, 2010. 51p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 26, 2010 at: http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/files/RIC/Publications/e021026259_reccompstat_fin.pdf Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/files/RIC/Publications/e021026259_reccompstat_fin.pdf Shelf Number: 120104 Keywords: Community PolicingCompstatPolice ReformPolice-Community Relations |
Author: Willis, James J. Title: The Co-Implementation of Compstat and Community Policing: A National Assessment Summary: In the last quarter century or so, Compstat (CS) and community policing (CP) have emerged as powerful engines of police reform in the United States. CS is a strategic management system focused on reducing serious crime by decentralizing decision-making to middle managers operating out of districts or precincts, by holding these managers accountable for performance, and by increasing the police organization’s capacity to identify, understand, and monitor responses to crime problems. Community policing can be characterized as a philosophy and an organizational strategy designed to reduce crime and disorder through community partnerships, problem solving, and the delegation of greater decision-making authority to patrol officers and their sergeants at the beat level. It varies more than Compstat from place to place in response to local problems and community resources. To date, researchers have focused their energy on identifying the individual merits and weaknesses of each, but have given much less attention to how well these reforms operate when implemented in the same police agency. The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (the COPS Office) asked us to do research on this coimplementation issue: Do CS and CP work together, mutually supporting each other, or are there points of conflict, where pursuing one makes it hard to pursue the other successfully? Moreover, do they work independently, that is each having little consequence for the other? This report presents findings from the first national assessment of CS and CP as co-implemented reforms. Given that systematic research on the co-implementation of CS and CP is scarce, the first purpose of this project was to illuminate the current state of implementation of each reform in the United States and the nature and extent of compatibility problems. Thus, we begin by drawing on data from our national survey to provide a profile of CS and CP in large police agencies. The purpose of the profile is to show what local police departments were doing with each reform, why they decided to adopt them, what some of the differences were between co-implementing and CP-only departments, and what some of the benefits and challenges were that arose from operating both reforms simultaneously. In the next section, we draw upon observations from site visits to seven police agencies that reported fully implementing both CP and CS. The second purpose of this project was to learn how CS and CP operated “on the ground.” To this end, we identify seven core elements that the full implementation of CS and CP would seem to demand and present in-depth knowledge on how each of these elements was implemented. More specifically, we describe how CS and CP functioned in relation to one another, and we assess their level of integration (not at all integrated, low, moderate, or high). Because of the popularity of CS and CP, our hope is that this comprehensive description of our findings and our assessment of CS/CP integration will deepen understanding among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers about the current relationship between these two reforms and provide a framework for decision-makers to envision alternative possibilities for co-implementation within local police organizations. A list of recommendations for integrating CS and CP based on our findings can be found in our report, Maximizing the Benefits of Reform: Integrating Compstat and Community Policing in America (2010). Details: Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, 2010. 90p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 14, 2011 at: http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/files/RIC/Publications/e091016308_Compstat+CommPol-web_FIN.pdf Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/files/RIC/Publications/e091016308_Compstat+CommPol-web_FIN.pdf Shelf Number: 121002 Keywords: Community PolicingCompstatPolice Problem-SolvingPolice ReformPolice-Community Partnerships |
Author: Soares, Rodrigo T. Title: Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil Summary: This paper explores the experience of information sharing, coordination, and integration of actions of the Civil and Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP program. The IGESP is based on the introduction of information management systems and organizational changes akin to those associated with COMPSTAT. All the evidence presented points to a causal effect of the IGESP on crime. The most conservative estimates indicate a reduction of 24% in property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response, measured by apprehension of weapons and clearance rates. We present one of the first set of causal estimates – with a clear identification strategy – of the impact of COMPSTAT-like programs. The results suggest that the coordination and informational gains represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime. Details: Unpublished paper, 2010. 43p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 21, 2012 at: http://ideas.repec.org/p/iza/izadps/dp5270.html Year: 2010 Country: Brazil URL: http://ideas.repec.org/p/iza/izadps/dp5270.html Shelf Number: 124621 Keywords: CompstatCrime RatesPolice (Brazil)Police ReformPolice TechnologyPolicing |
Author: Walton, Shamik Title: Zero tolerance policing: an evaluation of the NYPD's use of stop and frisk Summary: In New York City, racial disparities persist in enforcement, primarily because of the NYPD's overreliance on stop and frisk. The racial disparities in the period examined (2008-2012) are consistent with the overall trend from 2003. This trend correlates with the implementation of Operation Impact as a NYPD crime reduction strategy. The policing priorities established at Compstat meetings set the tone for enforcement. As such, Compstat is viewed as a major driver of stop and frisk, especially in impact zones. There are also disparities in the allocation of resources between enforcement and community outreach. Community Policing has shown its effectiveness as a bridge between the community and the police. Community Policing could be incorporated into Compstat to offset the collateral damage of disproportionate policing. Details: Boston: Northeastern University, 2014. 75p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed April 7, 2015 at: http://iris.lib.neu.edu/dlp_theses/11/ Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: http://iris.lib.neu.edu/dlp_theses/11/ Shelf Number: 135173 Keywords: CompstatPolice DiscretionRacial DisparitiesRacial Profiling in Law EnforcementStop and Frisk (New York City)Zero Tolerance Policing |
Author: Ueberall, Stephanie Title: Assessing New York City's Youth Gun Violence Crisis: Crews. Volume 2: CompStat for Violence Prevention Programs Summary: Although there have been significant recent investments by policymakers and funders - ranging from organizing task forces and work groups, to deploying new law enforcement strategies, to implementing programmatic interventions - New York City's ability to fully understand and diagnose its crew problem is hindered by a lack of data and coordination. While the NYPD collects data on crew members and related criminal activity, law enforcement data are typically insufficient to inform comprehensive responses because it is collected for the purpose of informing suppression and investigation strategies. At the same time, community-based organizations collect a range of data about the underlying needs of the individuals involved, but often lack the capacity to analyze and communicate these data to inform policy and programming decisions. Further, the City lacks a collaborative effort among stakeholders dedicated to addressing this problem. Preventing crew violence cannot be accomplished by a single agency or organization. Effective solutions require the combination of insight, hard work, and dedication from a wide variety of organizations and stakeholders. New York City should immediately mobilize stakeholders to take steps toward developing a comprehensive strategy to address the city's crew violence problem. Details: New York: Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, 2015. 23p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 27, 2016 at: http://www.nycrimecommission.org/pdfs/CCC-Crews-Vol2-Compstat.pdf Year: 2015 Country: United States URL: http://www.nycrimecommission.org/pdfs/CCC-Crews-Vol2-Compstat.pdf Shelf Number: 137682 Keywords: CompstatCrime AnalysisGang Violence Gangs Gun Violence Gun-Related Violence Violence CrimeViolent CrimeYouth Violence |
Author: Ingalls, Shawn P. Title: A Multivariate Assessment of Crime Displacement to Surrounding Jurisdictions in Relation to the Implementation of Operation Impact in Syracuse, NY Summary: This is a long term multivariate correlation study using a quantitative approach to look at the potential for focused enforcement practices as seen in the implementation of Operation Impact in Syracuse, NY to displace crime to surrounding jurisdictions. Predicator variable of the number of sworn police officers and racial demographics relationship to potentially displaced crimes in these surrounding jurisdictions was also studied to best understand crime displacement. This study used the distance decay theory, which states the farther a person gets from their base of operation; the less likely they are to commit crimes and the displacement theory, which views crime as inevitable to answer the research questions. The period of 2005 - 2013 was used to study crime displacement to the jurisdictions surrounding Syracuse. While crime displacement was the primary focus of the study, a diffusion of benefits was discussed and analyzed since scholarly work shows a diffusion of benefits is just as possible as crime displacement. This was accomplished by using Pearson's r, an interrupted time series ARIMA model, and the Weighted Displacement Quotient. Crime was separated into petty and major crime categories to best test the displacement theory and scholarly work surrounding the theory which found differing results for petty and major crime rates. Findings of this study showed crime displacement and a diffusion of benefits for both petty and major crimes to jurisdictions surrounding Syracuse, NY to be as a whole limited and exhibiting no statistically significant relationship. In 2010, Operations Impacts focus changed from solely addressing major crime and began to include addressing elements of petty crimes. In 2012, a relationship was identified with three of the surrounding jurisdictions and their petty crime rates which showed a spike in crime. Similar results were discovered as a whole for the relationship of the number of sworn police officers and the racial demographics of the surrounding jurisdictions with little to no statistically significant relationship. The findings of this study further support the distance decay theory. Details: Minneapolis, MN: Capella University, 2015. 145p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed October 27, 2017 at: https://search.proquest.com/docview/1712398683/abstract/A33B1D9415574B56PQ/1?accountid=13626 Year: 2015 Country: United States URL: https://search.proquest.com/docview/1712398683/abstract/A33B1D9415574B56PQ/1?accountid=13626 Shelf Number: 147844 Keywords: Broken Windows Theory CompstatCrime Displacement |
Author: Pape, Edward Allen, Jr. Title: Intersect Policing: Bringing CompStat to the Field Level to Reduce the Fear and Incidence of Crime Summary: CompStat is a computerized crime tracking system that was introduced by the New York City Police Department in 1994 and has been adopted by police departments around the world. The CompStat process acts as an accountability system that calls for commanding officers to reduce the fear and incidence of crime. While the nationwide reduction in crime over the past two decades may be partially attributed to CompStat, the system has also created tension in many police organizations. In addition, it currently fails to involve line members of the organization, those who actually perform the work, in the crime reduction process. In many departments, CompStat has morphed into a bureaucratic monster, creating a culture of fear that has damaged morale and diminished its effectiveness. The purpose of this research was to develop a real-time operating system, using CompStat as a strategic tool, to accomplish the purpose of law enforcement by including the knowledge and experiences from all sworn officers and others with a stake in reducing crime. As the Commanding Officer of Detectives assigned to West Valley Area of the Los Angeles Police Department, I instituted a system, which I termed Intersect Policing, which is coined from Frans Johansson's book (2004), The Medici Effect. This report describes the development and results achieved through the use of Intersect Policing. This work required the use of others' research including performance management, principles of behavior, organizational change, systems, core values, human capability, mental processing ability, mythologies, culture, communication, networking, and organizational learning. Key elements were based on the CompStat model of performance management, Macdonald et al. (2006) Systems Leadership Theory and Johansson's Medici Effect. The study encompassed two years during which the West Valley Area exceeded the average reduction in crime of the entire LAPD, which has continued as of this writing. Although based on a single case, the evidence strongly suggests that Intersect Policing can assist police departments to achieve the purpose of law enforcement, reduce the fear and incidence of crime, change mythologies and culture, and improve morale. Creating an Intersection where all stakeholders in the crime reduction process can communicate and exchange ideas enables police departments to achieve the purpose of law enforcement. Details: Los Angeles: University of Southern California, 2012. 407p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed April 27, 2018 at: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll3/id/96435 Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll3/id/96435 Shelf Number: 149921 Keywords: CompStatCrime Analysis Police AccountabilityPolice Administration Police ManagementPolice Performance |