Furthermore, several of the partnerships that COPS agencies were able to produce within their disparate communities were little more than simple name recognition, and were not able to produce a significantly impactful relationship between those agencies and the surrounding communities. This lack of a true cooperative partnership also accounts for why the research conducted for the COPS program did not truly have as successful an impact as it probably could have had.
The strengths of CompStat policing is that it fosters a spirit of competition amongst precinct leaders to reduce crime in their precinct. Knowing that their jobs are on the line based on how successful they are with this task, precinct leaders have a great deal of motivation and management of resources to reduce criminal activity within their jurisdiction. The major limitation is that some criminal behavior -- such as the car thefts and the incidents of stalker reports -- do not occur on a precinct wide basis and occur on a city wide basis instead, which severely limits the effectiveness in CompStat policing for these situations. The strength of the Intelligence Led Policing management strategies is that it keeps a vigilant overview of where the most commonly occurring criminals are and what their activities are. In this manner, the people most susceptible to commit a crime are monitored, so that the theory that five percent...
The obvious drawback to this type of policing is that it does not include all types of crimes, such as domestic ones or children sniffing glue in public schools, and it also requires a suspect to be caught before he or she is monitored. Therefore, those who have not been caught yet are not being policed.
These two strategies are distinct from one another in that the intelligence-based policing methodology requires for a suspect to have previously been arrested or caught committing a crime for him or her to be monitored. The CompStat-based policing methodology merely stratifies all criminal activity into various precincts, and encourages the leaders of such precincts to compete with one another to reduce the amount of crime in their respective areas. It appears that Major Lucius offers more effective problem solving than does Captain Smithers, for the simple fact that criminal offenders must already be known in order for Smithers to have any degree of effectiveness in her policing methodology. Lucius, however, is able to affect a more wide variety of problem solving skills since his methodology involves any sort of criminal activity within a specific precinct, whether or not a suspect has been previously apprehended.
