Abstract
In the 1990s, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) famously implemented a new strategy for reducing crime. Along with a “broken windows” orientation, police leadership used new management principles to analyze crime and direct police force activities, and geospatial software was central to these principles. The use of maps increases the credibility of an argument, but a critical examination of the historical development of policing tactics and the application of rhetorical concepts calls into question the validity of the NYPD's use of mapping in the context of crime reduction. A comparative analysis of the NYPD's CompStat efforts and a counter-mapping effort by theguardian.com illustrates the rhetorical power and the perils of maps.
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