Top cop holds sergeants' feet to fire, expands CompStat program
Posted February 25, 2016 10:00 pm
In the face of rising gun violence in Chicago, the police department is expanding its CompStat program that analyzes crime trends.
CompStat - from "computer statistics" - was created by the New York Police Department in 1995 and was brought to Chicago by then-Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy in 2011. He ran CompStat while he was a top official in the New York Police Department.
During the past five years, the department has held weekly CompStat meetings at police headquarters at 35th and Michigan. In the sometimes-testy meetings, McCarthy and other top brass questioned commanders about crime trends in their districts and what they were doing to quell the problems.
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