So which report more accurately measures crime?
CompStat is the Police Department's system that measures crime in areas throughout the city.
Responses to noise complaints by precinct will be recorded in the city's Compstat program, which measures crime and how effective the city is in responding to various violations.
New ways for assessing performance, with data that measures crime prevention, could encourage new and less violent forms of law enforcement.It seems to me that the biggest challenge will involve changing America's police culture.
Across the country – and by almost all measures – crime has been falling steadily since a peak in the late-90s, although there's no definitive explanation as to why.
Part of the discrepancy may lie in the way the reports measure crime.
The answer to the conflict lies in how the reports measure crime.
We used to measure crime-fighting by the size of our police forces and the state of the art of their equipment.
Over the course of a degree, expect to come across such topics as measuring crime rates; the place of crime in popular culture; efforts to prevent crime; biological explanations for crime; and the criminal justice system.
Criminologists expressed confusion yesterday at the discrepancy between the two reports, both released by the Justice Department, although they said the differences could be partly explained by how the reports measure crime.
