Jack Maple

Jack Maple (September 23, 1952 – August 4, 2001) was a New York City Transit officer who is remembered for holding the first newly created position of deputy police commissioner for operations and crime control strategies, succeeded by Ed Norris. He 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.

Early life and education 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.

He attended Brooklyn Technical High School for four years and followed the Aeronautical Engineering major. He worked odd jobs during the day and earned his high school diploma equivalence at night.

Career Maple became a transit police officer, Some officers called the maps "wall paper." Maple called the maps the "Charts of the Future". He used them to discern underground crime patterns and dispatched police officers accordingly. Maple noticed by placing officers at these locations, the robberies were being displaced to other areas of the subway. He dispatched officers in what he called a "rapid response".

Bill Bratton, head of the New York transit police department while Maple worked as a lieutenant, In 1996, crime statistics in New Orleans went down 22 percent in nine months and kept going down for four and half years. In late 1997, Ed Bradley returned to New Orleans for another 60 Minutes special. He did a glowing report, reporting that with COMPSTAT in New Orleans, it is becoming one of the safest cities in America. The cancer progressed very rapidly though. 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. He was photographed by photographer Helmut Newton in 1996 in a session to Vanity Fair.

The 11 April 1983 issue of New York Magazine contains an article on Maple, called "The Cop Who Loved the Oak Bar"; the article was written by Michael Daly, and appears on pages 34–37.

Maple left behind his wife, Bridgette, and his son, Brendan, who is now an NYPD Detective.

Media portrayals Domenick Lombardozzi portrayed Jack Maple in the third season of the HBO series The Deuce.