Crime under Mamdani
Citywide and borough major-crime stats from NYPD, updated weekly. Source and as-of date on every figure.
Citywide scorecard
Public-safety promises
Methodology & caveats
These numbers are preliminary
NYPD publishes weekly CompStat figures within days of the events they describe — which means they're useful for the question "is crime going up or down right now," but they get revised. The same week's number may shift slightly as late reports come in or classifications are corrected. We pull NYPD's most recent published figures verbatim; we don't smooth them or restate them.
These categories follow New York State Penal Law
The seven major felonies (murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny, grand larceny auto) plus shootings are NYPD's reporting categories, which follow New York State Penal Law (NYSPL) definitions. New York expanded its definition of rape in September 2024, which changes the comparison window for that category specifically — see the caveat on the reported-rape card.
These stats count reported crime, not all crime
Complaint statistics measure what gets reported to NYPD, not what actually happens. More reports can mean more incidents, or more survivors coming forward, or better outreach — and the data can't separate those. We surface this caveat next to categories where it materially affects interpretation; we don't apply a blanket disclaimer that obscures the real signal in murders, shootings, and burglaries.
Incident-level detail lags by a quarter
Block-level and offense-type detail comes from NYPD's Open Data complaint dataset, which posts complete quarters only. That means borough-level cards reflect weekly CompStat aggregates (fresh) while any future incident-level map would lag by up to three months. We tell you which is which.
Where the numbers come from
Citywide and borough figures are scraped weekly from NYPD's published citywide crime stats Excel file. Each row in our table records the source URL, the as-of timestamp, and the week-ending date NYPD itself printed. If our scraper fails to fetch a new file, the page continues to show the last good data with its true age — we never silently substitute stale numbers for fresh ones.
Two data families: weekly CompStat vs. quarterly complaint data
This site draws on two distinct NYPD data families that update on different schedules. The weekly CompStat workbook — the source for all scorecard cards — aggregates major-felony counts through the most recent complete week. The quarterly NYPD Open Data complaint dataset (NYPD Complaint Data Historic / Current) provides block-level, offense-type, and demographic detail but posts complete quarters only. Figures on this page are from the weekly CompStat family unless explicitly labeled otherwise. When a section or card uses complaint data, the as-of date and dataset name are shown.
Relationship to Vital City and other crime journalism
ReviewMamdani reproduces NYC Open Data and NYPD CompStat figures directly from government sources. Our method — ingesting the public Excel workbook, storing weekly snapshots, and surfacing YoY comparisons — is inspired by the approach civic-data organizations like Vital City have used to contextualize crime trends. We do not copy Vital City's code, copy their prose, or republish their analysis. Our scrapers access the same publicly available NYPD files that any journalist or researcher can download; our numbers and phrasing are independently produced.