The District is an American crime drama and police procedural
television series which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000, to May 1,
2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of
Washington, D.C.'s police department.Former Newark, New Jersey Police
Commissioner and New York Transit police officer Jack Mannion is hired
as the commissioner of the bureaucracy-laden Washington, D.C. police
force. Together with his detectives and allies he must fight crime as
well as internal corruption and the powers of Congress in order to
reorganize and renovate the force.The District was inspired by the
real-life experience of former New York City Deputy Police
Commissioner Jack Maple. Along with Police Commissioner William
Bratton he had reorganized the NYPD and one of the achievements was
the CompStat program (comparative statistics); which since 1994 has
its own major role in the TV series. After the success in New York the
CompStat program has been adapted by other cities. However Jack Maple
himself chose to publish his experiencesâ€"along with Chris Mitchell
he wrote a book (The Crime Fighter, 2000) and along with Terry George
he prepared a TV series concept. His impact on the storyline after
season 1 was limited as he died of colon cancer on August 4,
2001.Primary filming was in Los Angeles, with some location shooting
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