About Lou Anemone



A 35 year veteran of the New York Police Department--for the last five years of his tenure he was the Chief Operating Officer, the highest sworn officer rank in the department. Anemone was one of the co-developers of Compstat. During his tenure with the NYPD, homicides were reduced 60 percent, violent crime by 50 percent, and police use of deadly force by 60%. In 1996, Compstat received national recognition as a recipient of the Ford Foundation and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government award for Innovations in American Government. Amemone also played a key role in the 1995 merger of the New York Housing Police Department and the New York City Transit Police Department into the New York Police Department. In 1996, Anemone made sure the Cold Case Squad was successfully put into place with some of the best detectives from the now newly merged police departments.

Anemone now has his own law enforcement and counter-terrorism consulting company, Anemone Consulting, Inc., which in addition to providing law enforcement consulting services, is developing software which will accomplish worldwide some of the things that Compstat did for New York City. He lectures around the country about domestic security, most recently at a conference at Northeastern University, which was jointly sponsored by The Police Institute at Rutgers University, Boston Police Department and Massachusetts' Public Safety Department.

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