What the End of CompStat Would Mean for New York

THE ISSUE: Captains’ union president Chris Monahan’s call to end the NYPD’s use of CompStat.

In the new age of criminal-justice reforms and anti-police rhetoric, one must distinguish between the process of managerial oversight and the compilation of crime data (“A Cop’s Call To Surrender,” Editorial, June 25).

It appears that Captains Endowment Association head Chris Monahan was advocating for the end of managerial oversight, which has been successful in bringing down crime.

He points out that many of the crime-fighting tools have been eliminated. As such, it is useless to demand from a commander a strategy to address crime with no viable tactics available.

If CompStat is to continue in its current form, new strategies and tactics need to be developed for each crime addressed at CompStat. The old strategies developed in the ’90s are no longer germane. Ed Young

The Bronx

As for completely eliminating CompStat, why not compromise? Let’s keep CompStat alive without the need for commanders to appear in person, very often to be unfairly and publicly maligned for a command’s performance vis-à-vis certain upticks in crime.

CompStat has, for a very long time, been the miasmic cloud hanging over police morale. Commanders should be held accountable with a monthly report generated by CompStat requiring a written response by the commanding officer.

We shouldn’t forget it was the influence of CompStat that gave life to quotas for stop-andfrisk, and it was those very quotas that caused the obvious abuses of it. Patrick O’Connor

The Bronx

Someone should get a list of the 2,000-plus peoto ple who were killed in New York City each year prior to CompStat being implemented.

Plenty of inner-city lives were saved by the implementation of good proactive policing that made New York City one of the safest large cities in the world.

All of that is about to change with the dismantling of plainclothes cops and if NYPD goes forward with rejecting the accountability strategies of CompStat. The mayhem to come is entirely foreseeable. Deirdre Harvey

Valley Stream

Monahan called on the NYPD to drop a very effective anti-crime tool.

This, coupled with the closing of the undercover anti-crime force and the reduction of the NYPD’s budget, would mean skyrocketing crime.

There are folks claiming the public wants to see less police activity on the street. Really? How about we take a poll. I am sure the public overwhelmingly wants more police to protect them. Saul Mishaan

Brooklyn