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. Eterno and
Silverman's work in this book was cited in the article The Truth
About Chicago's Crime Rates: Part 2 in the June 2014 issue of
Chicago magazine. The Authors in the News The authors' studies on
crime were featured in a November 1, 2010 New York Times article
and their comments were published on the editorial page. Their work
was also cited in a November 30, 2010 Uptowner article about police
manipulation of crime statistics. Silverman and Eterno described a
proposed strategy for improving community confidence in the
integrity of crime statistics in a January 24, 2011 Daily News
article. On August 22, 2011, Eli Silverman commented on a recent
rise in NYC crime statistics in a New York Post article. On
November 29, 2011, the Village Voice featured an article written by
Silverman and Eterno on crime statistics manipulation and recent
corruption scandals. Eli Silverman was interviewed by the Plainview
Patch in a December 20, 2011 article about people's perception of
crime in a community. The book is cited in a February 23, 2012 Wall
Street Journal article about a lawsuit filed by a NYPD officer.
John Eterno was a featured guest on Talkzone Internet Talk Radio on
February 25, 2012. Eli Silverman spoke in a February 27, 2012 NY1
Online video about concerns regarding NYPD's stop and frisk policy.
The book was profiled in a February 27, 2012 article in The Chief,
a weekly newspaper for New York civil service employees. The
authors appeared on a March 26, 2012 local ABC news program about
underreported crime rates. thePolipit blog discussed the book on
April 2, 2012. John Eterno was quoted in an April 9, 2012 New York
Times article about the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy. Eli Silverman
was quoted in a May 2, 2012 DNAinfo.com article about rising New
York City crime rates. A New York Times Op-Ed piece referenced Eli
Silverman on May 13, 2012. John Eterno's Op-Ed piece entitled
"Policing by the Numbers" appeared in the New York Times on June
17, 2012. The book was cited in a June 19, 2012 Mother Jones
article. John Eterno was featured in a Reuters TV program about the
NYPD's "stop and frisk" policy. Eli Silverman testified on April 4,
2013 in a class action lawsuit related to the NYPD stop and frisk
policy. On July 14, 2014, an article written by John Eterno and Eli
Silversman about Police Commissioner Bratton's stop-and-frisk
policy appeared in the New York Daily News.
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