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The Crime Numbers Game - Management by Manipulation (Hardcover)
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The Crime Numbers Game - Management by Manipulation (Hardcover)
Series: Advances in Police Theory and Practice
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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. The Crime Numbers Game: Management by
Manipulation 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
statistics manipulation in the NYPD and the repercussions suffered
by crime victims and those who blew the whistle on this corrupt
practice. Providing insider insight into a system shrouded in
secrecy, this volume: Documents and analyzes a wide array of data
that definitively demonstrates the range of manipulation reflected
in official New York City crime statistics Explores how the
consequences of unreliable crime statistics ripple throughout
police organizations, affecting police, citizens, and victims
Documents the widening spell of police performance management
throughout the world Reviews current NYPD leadership approaches and
offers alternatives Analyzes the synchronicity of the media's and
the NYPD's responses to the authors findings Explores the
implications of various theoretical approaches to Compstat Offers a
new approach based on organizational transparency Presenting a
story of police reform gone astray, this book stunningly
demonstrates how integrity succumbed to a short-term numbers game,
casting a cloud on the department from which we can only hope it
will emerge.For more information, check out the authors' blog,
Unveiling Compstat, at blogspot.com and their website.
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