The Crime Machine, Part I and Part II
Author: Reply All; Publisher: Gimlet; Publication Year: 2018. The following podcast episodes focus on how police departments’ usage of CompStat went awry. CompStat was introduced by Jack Maple, a NYC transit cop, in the early 90s as a way to track crimes, and to see who was committing them. Very quickly, the system was abused by officers who wanted to meet quotas and make their neighborhoods look safe…