1. Jack Maple was a New York City Transit officer and remembered for holding the first newly created position of deputy police commissioner for operations and crime control strategies, succeeded by Ed Norris.
20 Facts About Jack Maple
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Jack Maple created the CompStat methodology of crime fighting and law enforcement strategy, co-authored the book The Crime Fighter, and inspired the television series The District.
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John Edward Maple was born in 1952 and grew up in Richmond Hill, New York on the corner of Forest Park at 108th Street and Park Lane South.
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Jack Maple attended Brooklyn Technical High School for four years and followed the Aeronautical Engineering major.
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Jack Maple worked odd jobs during the day and earned his high school diploma equivalence at night.
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Jack Maple became a transit police officer, during a time when the position was considered one of the most dangerous jobs in New York.
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Jack Maple rose from an undercover detective patrolling Times Square and the 42nd Street station at Eighth Avenue to the rank of Lieutenant in the New York City Transit Police.
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Jack Maple tracked the robberies by pinpointing them on several hundred maps on his wall.
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Jack Maple used them to discern underground crime patterns and dispatched police officers accordingly.
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Jack Maple noticed by placing officers at these locations, the robberies were being displaced to other areas of the subway.
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Jack Maple dispatched officers in what he called a "rapid response".
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Bill Bratton, head of the New York transit police department while Jack Maple worked as a lieutenant, noticed that Jack Maple's way of crime fighting showed a dramatic decrease in robberies.
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Jack Maple did a glowing report, reporting that with COMPSTAT in New Orleans, it is becoming one of the safest cities in America.
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In 1999, Jack Maple co-wrote a book, The Crime Fighter: Putting the Bad Guys Out of Business, published by Doubleday.
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Jack Maple began to co-write the prototype for the weekly television series The District.
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Jack Maple still had a sense of humor, dismissing it as a bump in the road.
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Jack Maple said that he wanted his funeral in the late afternoon, and he wanted the procession to go up 42nd Street, past Grand Central Terminal right around rush hour.
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Jack Maple knew it would tie up traffic, saying "For once they could wait for the fat cop".
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Jack Maple would be seen walking around the city wearing a Homburg hat, polished wing tipped shoes with spats, and a tailored three piece suit with a bow tie.
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Jack Maple was photographed by photographer Helmut Newton in 1996 in a session to Vanity Fair.