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Ed Brock
"In the mid-1990s, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) began placing more decision-making power to direct law enforcement strategy in the hands of precinct commanders rather than headquarters personnel. To do that, the department correlated data from daily crime reports in a project called Computerized Statistics (CompStat), generating maps of criminal hot spots around the city. The technique has spread to other cities large and small, and has expanded beyond public safety to other city services."
