When the changes are unveiled, according to Interim Police Chief Randy Hundley, the city will be broken up into nine patrol zones, each of which will mirror the districts used by the City-Parish ...

Halfway through listening to top New Orleans police commanders on Thursday describe the crimes they've been investigating over the past couple weeks, Mayor Mitch Landrieu and his freshly installed ...

As one window into the New Orleans Police Department closes, another is opening. The department said Wednesday it is ending the weekly citywide briefings, known as Comstat meetings, at which NOPD top ...

The Harford County Sheriff?s Office is moving toward implementing a big-city program to track the suburban county?s crime. Sheriff Jesse Bane promised he would implement in Harford the Comstat crime ...

Comstat – the New York-based, statistics-driven crime management tool that has become the standard in major American cities – may be in for a makeover in Baltimore. The Sun reports that this week, ...

About 50 of Baltimore’s highest-ranking police officers sat in a cramped, windowless room on the third floor of police headquarters and turned their attention to the city’s latest crime data — which ...

The New York Police Department’s Comstat program, credited with helping reduce major felonies 30% over two years, received national honors yesterday with an Innovations in American Government award.

As Harford County implements the ComStat program, its creator says it will take strong leadership and adequate staffing to keep it from becoming a bureaucratic mess or a terrifying obligation for ...