http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2655477,00.html
Jason Kandel
"Despite a critical shortage of manpower and the shortened work week schedule, Chief William Bratton mobilized the Los Angeles Police Department to put more cops on the streets and make more arrests last year, statistics show. The manpower shift comes from a strategy Bratton outlined when he was sworn in: Information provided by a Compstat crime-tracking system he helped devise is used to deploy officers to high-crime areas, with the goal of increasing arrests and reducing crime.
He also has replicated the "broken windows" method of fighting crime that he used when he headed the New York Police Department. Special task forces are assigned to work less-serious property crimes, such as car burglaries and auto thefts, on the theory that the criminals won't graduate to violent crime.
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