Posted on 07/13/2008 11:37:37 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Since the late 1990s, more than 18 police commanders have left the New York City police department to run their own agencies elsewhere. This unprecedented migration has spread the Compstat revolution - the data-driven transformation of policing begun under New York police commissioner William Bratton in 1994 - across the nation.
Some of the transplants are well-known: Bratton now heads the Los Angeles Police Department; and his former first deputy, John Timoney, has led both the Miami and the Philadelphia forces. But the diaspora also includes lesser-known young Turks who rose quickly through the NYPD's ranks during the paradigm-shattering 1990s. Now, as chiefs in their own right, they're proving the efficacy of analytic, accountable policing in agencies wholly dissimilar from New York's.
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José Cordero once led precincts in the Bronx and in Manhattan's Washington Heights, and eventually he served as New York's first citywide gang strategist. Like other members of the diaspora, he describes the 1990s NYPD as a life-changing experience: "It was an incredibly resourceful, competitive environment. The wave of captains I was privileged to serve with fed off of each other's experiments." In 2002, he took the helm of the Newton, Massachusetts, police department, bringing crime in that already safe city down to its lowest point in over 30 years.
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A revolution in policing: find where the criminals are, go there, and arrest them.
What exactly were they doing before they discovered this idea?
Why make in the $40s-$50Gs in NYC as a patrolman (yeah, I know this article is referring to commanders at a higher pay grade) when you can come to my township but 45 miles from midtown and take home $85G before overtime?
Catching criminals and letting them go on plea bargains
The key was the realization that a lot of crime was performed by chronic/professional criminals. How many muggings PER DAY, each yielding $20-$40, does a criminal need to commit in order to buy drugs and pay his bills? Refuse to plea bargain with a chronic criminal, put him away for a long time, and crime drops significantly.
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Because there is the NYPD and then there is second-tier.
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It’s poorly phrased. They were able to identify particular types of crime in particular areas and alert officers in the field. In effect, they could anticipate what type of crime would occur and where. They were also able to hold commanders accountable for rises in crime.
Ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark!
By golly, you are behind the times. One doesn't "arrest" criminals. One conducts an "outreach" program to bring them in for "rehabilitation," and "socialization."
Of course, if some less sophisticated officer happens to waffle the crap out of them in the course of this humanistic endeavour, it may have a dampening effect on the anti-social behavior of other "criminals."
"Data-Driven," of course means rounding all of the anti-social deviant's friends, relatives, acquaintances, and contacts. In high-crime areas this is usually done just before a wave of vigilantes takes to the streets. "Data-Driven," also means that each cop's activities are monitored for "productivity." This is big news in civil service circles, although it is highly reminiscent of techniques used by management in the DPS (Dreaded Private Sector.)
What exactly were they doing before they discovered this idea?
In between doughnut runs, the cops were pretty much doing this, but lazy prosecutors and left-wing judges were turning the criminals (oops, sorry) loose as fast as they could be arrested. So cop "productivity" now means making better cases by not screwing around with evidence and bringing better cases.
Congrats to Cordero for lowering the sky-high Newton Crime Rate. Some people were not cleaning up after their pets and keeping out library books way past their due date.
Next big effort: arresting those wanted on outstanding warrants. Hundreds of bad boys in every county of whom the police are very afraid.
Oh yeah, "Data-Driven" also means the cops get to take, keep, interpret, and distribute the "Data," as they see fit.
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