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Current Articles Crime Control by the Numbers Police departments all over America are embracing the Compstat program pioneered in New York City in the 1990's. Its story yields important lessons for crime control as well as for how a good idea can be successfully replicated. The U.S. military has recently upgraded childcare services on military bases to produce a program that has won considerable praise from child-development experts. The Self-Sufficiency Standard is a new measure of how much income working families in the United States need to make it in today's economy. It may be the next frontier for welfare reform.