Amid the cacophony of voices calling for budget changes that would sharply reduce the police force despite troubling rises in both homicides and shootings this year, Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner Dermot Shea just got some unsolicited advice that's actually worth serious consideration from Captains' Endowment Association President Chris Monahan.
He made the case, in both a letter and a subsequent interview with this newspaper's Richard Khavkine, that if the NYPD truly wanted to improve its relations with minority communities, it should look at scrapping the 26-year-old CompStat program meant to measure commanders' performance while making it easier to spot crime trends.
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