Love that you brought up COMPSTAT, Carl. Precincts have also been caught over and over again cooking their books to satisfy COMPSTAT. It’s a useful political symbol, to be able to point to a certain percentage drop in crime, but it’s rarely accurate.

To your question, April: Scott Stringer, the NYC Comptroller, got fed up with constantly paying out multi-million dollar settlements with police victims and implemented his own version of COMPSTAT called CLAIMSTAT that tracked complaints against certain precincts. I don’t think anyone at the NYPD has paid much attention, though.

The feds have also developed an algorithm to predict police misconduct, but departments never really implemented it. Data can be great if you can get people to use it right, and that’s a big if.