The Crime Numbers Game: Management by Manipulation (Advances in Police Theory and Practice)

Eli B. Silverman,John A. Eterno

ISBN 10: 1439810311 / ISBN 13: 9781439810316

Published by Routledge, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Crime Numbers Game: Management by Manipulation (Advances in Police Theory and Practice)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1439810311
• ISBN 13: 9781439810316
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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?€”one a former NYPD captain?€”who present the first in-depth empirical analysis of this management system?€”exposing the truth about crime statistic?€?s manipulation in the NYPD and the repercussions suffered by crime victims and those who blew the whistle on this corrupt practice.

About the Author

John A. Eterno, Eli B. Silverman