The crime numbers game
Subtitle: management by manipulation
By: John A. Eterno and Eli B. Silverman
Contributors: Silverman, Eli B.
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781439810316
Subjects: Police administration; Criminal statistics; Police; Crime prevention
Description: 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. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The unusual suspects; title: The NYPD's untold story: crime report manipulation; title: Performance management: pitfalls and prospects; title: Police performance manageement: the view from abroad; title: Big bad bully bosses: leadership 101; title: NYPD and the media: curbing criticism; title: Compstat: underpinnings and implications; title: Silence is not an option.