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- Though New York was more dangerous than the U.S. as a whole throughout the mid- and late-1990s, it has been safer than average in most years since 2000. Like the U.S. as a whole, the violent crime rate in New York has improved substantially since the 1990s. As of 2020, New York’s violent crime rate was 57% lower than it was in 1995.
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Apr 14, 2023 · Murders in Manhattan, specifically, dropped 15% in 2022 to 78. For historical perspective, that’s the lowest number since 2019, and it is far lower than the number of murders in the late 1980s ...
Jan 13, 2020 · New York City's violent crime rate of 541 per 100,000 is well above the overall statewide rate, but far from the highest in the state.
Jan 25, 2024 · Like the U.S. as a whole, the violent crime rate in New York has improved substantially since the 1990s. As of 2020, New York’s violent crime rate was 57% lower than it was in...
Aug 1, 2011 · A True Decline The first nine years of New York City’s crime decline were part of a much broader national trend, an overall drop of nearly 40 percent that started in the early 1990s and ended...
- What’s Past Is Prologue
- Murders Decline in Chicago, Again
- Continuing Low Violent Crime Rates in New York City and San Francisco
- Slight Increase in Violent Crime in Philadelphia
- Crime, Immigration, and The Border: Continued Safety in El Paso
- An Urgent Need For Solutions to Urban Violence in Baltimore
- Building on Successes and Focusing on Challenges
It’s important to understand this year’s data against the broader background of crime in the United States. Between 1960 and 1980, the murder rate roughly doubled, climbing from 5.1 per 100,000 people to 10.2. After a short dip, murder rates reached their most recent high point in 1991, peaking at 9.8. This increase was not confined to just homicid...
First and foremost, crime continues to drop in Chicago. Though it hasn’t quite returned to 2014 levels, it’s making steady progress. Compared to late November of last year, reported crimes are down by 10 percent. That decrease is driven, in part, by significant declines in property crime. But declines in violent crimes this past year were equally s...
Of the drops in crime seen nationwide in the last quarter-century, New York City saw some of the sharpest compared to other cities. And those public safety gains are largely holding. This year, the number of crimes and violent crimes reported through December 1 is largely unchanged from the prior year, declining 1.4 percent and increasing 1.5 perce...
There’s been an understandable focus on Philadelphia after the 2017 election of its progressive, reform-oriented district attorney, Larry Krasner. He eliminated cash bail for most nonviolent offenses, required prosecutors to explain the cost to taxpayers of incarceration when seeking a prison sentence, directed them to seek lighter sentences genera...
President Trump frequently argues that the border and border cities are extremely dangerous places — and that cities like El Paso, Texas, are kept safe only by draconian immigration policies, physical walls, or both. But it’s not true. For one, research suggests that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit violent crimes than U.S. citizen...
Lastly, we turn to another place where crime and violence spiked in 2015: Baltimore. This year, Baltimore’s story continues to be a mixed one. The total number of crimes reported in the city fell by almost 6 percent compared to 2018 (through the last week of November), with violent crime falling by about 2.5 percent. Robbery, burglary, theft, and a...
It’s too soon to draw national conclusions, which would also have to be based on a review of many additional cities and areas, but the declines in Chicago especially point in a positive direction. As the year draws to a close, the data points toward significant public safety gains in some major cities and stabilization in others. The few trouble sp...
Mar 24, 2023 · Although violent crime has risen in NYC recently, the city’s rate of violent felony offenses is lower than cities like Houston, Los Angeles, Phoenix.
Feb 4, 2013 · New York City experienced a historic decline in crime rates during the 1990s, but it was not due to the implementation of CompStat or enhanced enforcement of misdemeanor offenses, according to an analysis by New York University sociologist David Greenberg.
