New York City Violent Crime Rate By Year
New york population and rate of crime per 100 000 people 1960 2018.
New york city violent crime rate by year. The 2018 new york crime rate rose by 2 compared to 2017. Crime on the new york city subway reached a peak in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the city s subway having a crime rate higher than that of any other mass transit system in the world. The department provides up to date crime related statistics in the seven major crime categories on the citywide borough and precinct levels as well as historical crime data. One notable incident took place on january 24th 1975 when a bomb exploded in new york based fraunces tavern which resulted in dozens of injuries and the death of four people.
At least five violent incidents in new york which took place in the 1970s were conducted by the fuerzas armadas de liberacion nacional and these were mainly bombed attacks. It was higher than in 71 0 u s. Murder burglary and grand larceny auto crimes have spiked in new york city this past month compared to the same period last year while rape robbery and grand larceny crimes have declined. There were 23 440 murders in the united states that year.
Between june 1 and june 30 there was a 130 increase in the number of shooting incidents across the city 205 v. The number of homicides stood at 295 an increase of 3 compared to 2017. For the month of june 2020 the number of people victimized by gun violence and murder in new york city spiked significantly when compared to the same period in 2019. New york suffered 2 262 of those making it the nation s bloodiest city.
The weekly compstat page and compstat 2 0 were modified to include two sex crime. Gun violence exploded across the city after the nypd disbanded its anti crime unit of plainclothes cops on june 15 with three times as many shootings in the last two weeks of the month over the. In the last 5 years new york has seen decreasing violent crime and decreasing property crime. 89 as the number of shootings rose in every borough of new york.
1990 is an important year in crime. The public can also access this data through the department s compstat 2 0 portal.