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Major crime in the Big Apple saw a 2% drop in the first few months of the fiscal year — along with a dip in transit crime, an early peek at Mayor Eric Adams' annual report revealed.
According to some analyses, the crime rate in New York City fell even more in the 1990s and 2000s than nationwide and therefore credit should be given to a local dynamic: highly focused policing. In this view, as much as half of the reduction in crime in New York in the 1990s, and almost all in the 2000s, is due to policing. [194]
Here are crime totals for places outside New York City in 2023 and how they compared to 2019 levels: Larceny: 133,047 (10.9% increase) Vehicle theft: 20,615 (186.6% increase)
The following table of United States cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) statistics from 2019 for the 100 most populous cities in America that have reported data to the FBI UCR system. [1] The population numbers are based on U.S. Census estimates for the year end.
The new numbers show violent crime from January to March dropped 15.2% compared to the same period in 2023, while murders fell 26.4% and reported rapes decreased by 25.7%.
Crime rates in New York City spiked over the post-war period as the city experienced white flight. [8] The highest crime totals were recorded in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the crack epidemic surged, [9] [10] and then dropped through the 1990s and 2000s.
That National Crime Victimization Survey, released earlier this month, shows that the violent crime victimization rate rose from about 16 per 1,000 people in 2020 to 22.5 in 2023. But the report ...
New York also had the highest density of millionaires per capita among major U.S. cities in 2014, at 4.6% of residents. [110] New York City is one of the relatively few American cities levying an income tax (about 3%) on its residents. [111] [112] [113] As of 2018, there were 78,676 homeless people in New York City. [114]