New York Crime Statistics

New Numbers on Domestic Violence-Related Murders in New York

At the end of last year, city officials announced that New York saw the lowest number of murder victims in 2012 in over 50 years. A new report by the NYPD provides the data behind those rates and a visual analysis of the 419 victims, as well as the 290 suspects identified in their murders. Among the ... More >>

For the First Time in 20 Years, New York's Crime Rate Is on the Rise

While Bloomberg brags about his record, the city's crime rate is on the rise

New Evidence Emerges About Police Downgrading of Crimes

Accounts of police downgrading crime reports surfaced again on Sunday in a New York Times article, which compared descriptions of crimes in police reports versus the charges eventually brought by prosecutors. The article's author Joseph Goldstein examined more than 100 police reports, and found a n ... More >>

Stop-and-Frisks, Crime Spikes and a Lesson in Statistics

A few months back, we reported on the outrageous statements made by the Boys in Blue that praised the low murder rate as a sign of victory for stop-and-frisk. And our argument was simple: if you stop-and-frisk everyone, then, yes, the murder rate will go down. But this is the kind of upside-down tho ... More >>

Double Digit Crime Spikes In Almost One-Third of All City Police Precincts

Crime citywide is up by 4 percent through last week, pushed largely by an increase in grand larcenies, though there have been 15 percent fewer homicides so far this year over last, NYPD figures through July 8 show. Much more troubling are the larger increases in some of the city's police precincts. ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg On Stop-And-Frisk: We're Better Than Philadelphia And D.C.

New Yorkers who don't like stop-and-frisk can go live in Philadelphia and Washington D.C. and see how they like the murder rates there! This is what a pretty braggy Mike Bloomberg said yesterday in response to a question from the Voice about the logic behind his repeated defense of the NYPD's cont ... More >>

To Lower Murder Rate, NYPD Will Just Stop-and-Frisk Everyone

Not sure how the NYPD connected these two.Yesterday, a spokesperson for the boys of blue heralded the city's low murder rate - a number that has dipped 21 percent in recent months - as a sign of victory for their controversial stop-and-frisk policy.The procedure, attacked by City Council and the New ... More >>

Bloomberg Cites Crime Drop in Brooklyn Precinct; Doesn't Mention Big Spike

In his comments Sunday about the shooting of four police officers in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, Mayor Bloomberg--never one to miss a chance to tout good numbers--told reporters that "crime is down something like 46 percent in the 61st Precinct since 2001." This is true. What he conveni ... More >>

The NYPD Tapes Confirmed

The report police hid for nearly two years that corroborates a Voice investigation — and vindicates a whistle-blower the NYPD tried to destroy

NYPD Numbers Show Sharp Increases in Crime So Far This Year

That jump in the citywide crime rate has continued through the sixth week of the year, up over 5 percent so far, with thefts and robbery accounting for the increase. Robberies, burglaries and grand larceny are all up 10 percent citywide. Crime is up through Feb. 12 by double digits in three of the ... More >>

NYPD Blames Warm Winter for Increase in Crime Rates

If it seems to you like there have been more crime, you're not wrong. There have already been 9,902 crimes reported in 2012, compared to 9,366 in the same period last year. Reports of burglaries, robberies, and grand larceny are all up at least 10 percent, and rapes and murders are up 5.9 percent. R ... More >>

Ray Kelly, NYPD, Sued For Refusing to Release Crime Stats From Scandal-Tained Brooklyn Precinct

​Continuing its record of stone-walling public inquiry, the NYPD is refusing to release crime statistics for the past 11 years from the scandal-tainted 81st Precinct in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. As a result, the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit this week asking ... More >>

Crime Down in New York City for 2011; Central Park After Dark Now Just 'Boringly Safe'

At Mayor Bloomberg's press conference about public safety today, he announced that crime in the city has been driven down 34 percent in the last 10 years, and that serious crime is down overall this year compared to last year, factoring in a change in the state's definition of felony assault. As of ... More >>

NYPD, FDNY Year-End Numbers Show Overall Good News, Some Trouble Spots

A bit of good news as the passing of 2011 nears: homicides were down five percent for the year, the overall crime rate was flat, and fires killed just 64 people, the second lowest number of fire fatalities since 1916, the mayor's office says. But the neighborhood crime numbers reveal several trouble ... More >>

Police Statistics: NYC Crime Rates Stayed Flat in 2011

​According to police statistics, crime rates in New York didn't change overall in 2011 compared to 2012. Overall crime decreased by 0.8 percent through December 18 compared with the same period a year ago. There have been 102,445 felonies so far compared with 102,269 by the same time last year ... More >>

Eterno and Silverman, Criminologists, Say NYPD's Crime Stat Manipulation A Factor In Recent Corruption Scandals

Criminologists Eli Silverman, of John Jay College, and John Eterno, of Molloy College, offer one of their periodic opinion pieces about the NYPD. This one is about the intersection between the recent police corruption scandals and what they call the "distorted use of and lack of transparency of Comp ... More >>

Parading While Black

After the arrest of a City Councilman, isn't it time to question the NYPD's crooked math?

NYPD Moves 200 Officers Out Of Higher Crime Areas To Staff World Trade Center; Nabes Screwed Again

​The 206 police officers transferred last week to the new World Trade Center Command are coming largely from higher crime precincts outside of tourist-heavy, monied southern Manhattan, documents show. Just three cops are coming from the lower Manhattan's 1st Precinct, which includes the trade ... More >>

Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Where Are the Results of That Review on the Crime Statistics?

​In January, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly promised to release the results of what he called an independent examination of the city's crime statistics. He said the effort by three former federal prosecutors would take six months. Well, it's been exactly six months, and still no word from ... More >>

NYPD Crime Stats: Half The Year Over, Neighborhoods Seeing Spikes in Burglaries and Larcenies

​Well, the year is nearly half over, and it's time to do a bit of handicapping of the city's crime statistics. In general, some sections of the city are experiencing a spike in assaults, and a rash of economic crimes--burglaries and grand larcenies, mainly. Overall, citywide crime, according ... More >>

Murder Down, Rape Up in 2011 New York City

​The latest New York City crime statistics show that while murders are down 17 percent so far this year as compared to the same period in 2010, and burglaries are down 7 percent, rape is up nearly 24 percent from 2010. Felony assaults are up 5 percent as well, though it's mostly comforting new ... More >>

Queens DA Taking a Look At How NYPD Whistleblower Wound Up in Psych Ward [Update]

​It looks like Queens District Attorney Richard Brown is taking renewed interest at the events surrounding how the NYPD wound up forcing Officer Adrian Schoolcraft into the Jamaica Hospital psychiatric ward for six days back in late 2009. Last week, Leonard Levitt, who writes an internet col ... More >>

Ray Kelly Appoints Former Federal Prosecutors to Investigate Crime Stats

​In even more fallout from the Village Voice's "NYPD Tapes" series, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has now appointed a committee of three former federal prosecutors to investigate whether crime stats are being manipulated. The move, reported by the Associated Press, appears to be the lates ... More >>

New NYPD Stats Raise More Questions About Downgrading of Crimes

​Last week, under public criticism, the NYPD released long-hidden statistics on lesser crimes, re-igniting questions about the extent of downgrading of major felonies, a practice we detailed in our NYPD Tapes series. That stonewalling led some observers to charge that felony complaints were b ... More >>

Is Crime Increasing Because NYPD Has Stopped Fudging Stats?

​The influential crime reporter Murray Weiss, ex-chief of the New York Post police bureau, is weighing in on the questions being raised about the extent of manipulating crime statistics by NYPD commanders. In a column for the website, DNAInfo.com, Weiss reports that Police Commissioner Ray Ke ... More >>

Is the East Village Facing a Return to the Bad Old Days of Crime?

​In today's East Village street crime round-up: A string of wanton mayhem and violence over the past two days, including a drug-related shooting that left three injured, a stabbing that left one dead, and a cell phone robbery that left one perp in tears. The '70s are back, baby. Well, not exac ... More >>

Another Brooklyn Precinct Probed For Fudging Crime Stats

​Another Brooklyn police precinct is under investigation for manipulating crime statistics, the Voice has learned. This time, police sources say, it's the 77th Precinct in Crown Heights. So far, "numerous" officers and detectives have been grilled by the Quality Assurance Division, the NYPD u ... More >>

Truth Versus Spin: An Op-Ed On The NYPD's Crime Statistics From Two Criminologists

​By John A. Eterno and Eli B. Silverman The NYPD, its acolytes, and assorted politicians' 15 year unyielding boasting and bellowing of the City's "miraculous crime drop" has constantly filled the air waves and newspaper print. However, since January of this year we notice reports of increas ... More >>

Voice's NYPD Tapes to Get a Hearing by FBI Officials

By Michael Cohen ​FBI officials will hear excerpts from the recordings of police bosses' harangues at street cops to manipulate crime stats, revealed in the Voice's NYPD Tapes series, when two criminologists present their research at a crime data conference at John Jay College later today. P ... More >>

Profs Stymied, Couldn't Play NYPD Tapes from Voice Series at FBI Conference

By Michael Cohen ​The FBI was denied the opportunity during a conference Friday afternoon to hear the stunning recordings of police department supervisors that are the heart of the Voice's NYPD Tapes series on manipulation of crime stats, abusive policing, and suppression of violent-crime rep ... More >>

Murders Up 17 Percent, NYPD Crime Stats Show

​Periodically, we here at Runnin Scared take a look at the city's crime statistics. Well, almost three quarters of the way through the year, crime citywide is at about the same level as it was this time last year. But murders are up 17 percent. And, in all, six of the seven major crime categor ... More >>

NYPD Tapes 3: A Detective Comes Forward About Downgraded Sexual Assaults

When even attempted rapes are being downgraded to misdemeanors, is the public safe?

Audit Those NYPD Crime Stats, Former State Comptroller Says

​Former New York State Comptroller Carl McCall says an outside audit of the NYPD crime statistics is something that his successor in that office and the city Comptroller should consider. "I think that they should be made available and if the city or state comptroller wants to audit them, they ... More >>

Eric Schneiderman Blasts His AG Candidate Counterpart, Kathleen Rice, Over a Tiny Uptick in Crime?

Eric Schneiderman​The ongoing war of words between State Senator Eric Schneiderman and Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, two of the top candidates for New York Attorney General, is at least novel. Does anyone really think a DA should be blamed, as Schneiderman has Rice, if crime g ... More >>

Quotas and Victim Intimidation? Of Course, Says Another NYPD Veteran

​Marquez Claxton spent 20 years as a police officer and a detective in the NYPD, most recently in Williamsburg's 90th Precinct. He retired as a detective second grade. He worked in narcotics as an undercover, in vice, in domestic violence, and was involved in the investigation of thousands of ... More >>

Council Public Safety Chair Weighs In On The Voice's "NYPD Tapes" Exclusive

​We heard today from City Councilman Peter Vallone in reaction to our NYPD Tapes article. Vallone had strong views on the two central themes of the story. Vallone is the chairman of the Council's Public Safety Committee, which has oversight responsibility for the Police Department. First, he ... More >>

Overall Crime Goes Up, Fueled by Jumps in Murders, Robberies and Burglaries

​The NYPD is normally very efficient about posting the latest crime statistics to its website each Monday. But as the crime numbers have gotten worse, the department all of a sudden is getting slower in posting those stats. As of this posting, the department still hasn't updated its stats. La ... More >>

OK, So There Is Presently A State Department-Issued Travel Advisory For Mexico, Including MtyMx Site Monterrey

The MtyMx site in Monterrey.​We've taken a certain amount of joy in mocking the terrified teenagers and timid, jingoistic bloggers who greeted the announcement of Todd P's MtyMx Festival in Monterrey, Mexico, with the type of hysteria normally reserved for frothing nutjobs like Arizona-based " ... More >>

Ray Kelly's Crime Stats Are Suspect: Two New Polls

Can we trust your data, commissioner?​Well, the results are in. Amid lingering questions about the NYPD's crime statistics, a new poll of 1,000 New Yorkers gives Police Commissioner Ray Kelly a 70 percent approval rating. But just 54 percent of New Yorkers said they trust the city's crime stat ... More >>

Richard Aborn, Former D.A. Candidate, Wants NYPD Crime Audit Figures Released, Checked

​The controversy over NYPD crime statistics, in which some experts assert that many crimes have been downgraded in police reports to keep up appearances (which is disputed by others, including NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly), has been stirred up further by a former candidate for Manhattan D.A. R ... More >>

The NYPD Ignores Leap Day Crimes to Keep Stats Low

CompStat might not count a February 29th murder, but the neighborhood does

Big Crackdown on Little Crime

Bloomberg out-Rudys Rudy when it comes to the NYPD's "quality of life" enforcement

Mapping Rape

In the fight against rape, stats are only half of the story

Something's Missing

Crime-stat revelation: 'Lost property' reports mysteriously soar

This Crime Didn't Count

An assault in Brooklyn that never made it into the ballyhooed NYPD stats

These Stats Are a Crime

While Bloomberg boasts of crime drop, the hospitals' work on assault victims is booming

Corruption? It figures.

NY police department's crime stats and the art of manipulation

Close-Up on Elmhurst

Letters

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