CIS 500

Week 2 Assignment 1

Compstat was designed to help fight and predict crimes. CompStat short for Computer Statistics was introduced to the New York City police department in 1994. Compstat was invented by a group of researchers, Mathematicians George Mohler and Martin Short, Criminologist George Tita, and an anthropologist Jeff Brantingham . (Goode, E. (2011, August 15). The researcher's envision was that CompStat would predict crimes as meteorologist predict the weather. The program has been used by several police departments such as Washington DC, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Austin, San Juan, San Francisco and Canada. Compstat was even featured on HBO series "The Wire".

The program works by compiling weekly statistics of crimes and police activities. The data is usually...