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Falling Crime Rate Is a Potent Weapon for the Mayor

NY Help Desk A story in the October 5, 2005 edition of the New York Times Online described that city’s falling crime rate including references to the NYPD's next generation CompStat system and real-time crime centers.

“No longer was the department simply mapping crime; now it was also analyzing the data to pinpoint the people responsible for a disproportionate share of offenses in specific neighborhoods.”
John Feinblatt quoted in the New York Times

“Mr. Kelly created a "real-time crime center" designed to quickly get information on potential suspects into the hands of detectives or officers responding to a crime scene”
New York Times

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New York fights crime with super help desk

Read the Washington Technology story on how the NYPD uses analysis from Cognos, along with mapping and data mart technologies, to identify shooting and homicide suspects.

"There have been cases where we have apprehended someone because of the information."

Washington Computer News,
September 12, 2005.