About crime reports
Summary
Curious about what kind of crime happens near you? In this section of EveryBlock, we take precinct-level data from the New York Police Department and show you aggregate totals of seven types of criminal activity — murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and grand larceny of automobiles.
The data identifies the precinct where the crime happened and the week covered in each report. Keep in mind that this is not a complete list of crime in your precinct. The reports don't include any details about individual crimes.
Source
The data comes from the weekly precinct reports published by the police department. These reports are published each Monday, and we at EveryBlock publish the information shortly thereafter.
Note that the police department only keeps one week's worth of data on its site at a time, but we at EveryBlock keep the data archived, so you can view neighborhood trends over time.
What else should I know about crime data in New York?
The data in this section of EveryBlock comes from an individual report issued every week for each of the New York Police Department's 76 precincts. The department uses the CompStat system, and notes that its "figures are preliminary and subject to further analysis and revision."
If you want incident-level, block-level crime data reporting from the police department, call your precinct and urge them to provide more detailed crime reports.
