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During the 1990s, crime rates in New York City dropped dramatically, even more than in the United States as a whole. Violent crime declined by more than 56 percent in the City, compared to about 28 percent in the nation as whole.
The tabular data presented here compile reported crime and offense data recorded by the New York City Police Department from 2000 through 2015. Separate tables are presented for the seven major felonies, other felony crimes, misdemeanors, and violations.
5 gru 2012 · In 1990, there were two thousand two hundred and forty-five murders in New York. This year, there are likely to be fewer than four hundred. Throughout the nineteen-nineties, The New Yorker...
17 lip 2009 · New York’s drop in crime during the 1990s was correspondingly astonishing—indeed, “one of the most remarkable stories in the history of urban crime,” according to University of California law professor Franklin Zimring. While other cities experienced major declines, none was as steep as New York’s.
The highest crime totals were recorded in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the crack epidemic surged, [2][3] and then declined continuously from around 1990 throughout the 2000s. [4] As of 2023, New York City has significantly lower rates of gun violence than many other large cities. [5]
Murders in New York City, 1950-2020. There were 462 recorded murders in 2020, up from 319 in 2019 (45 percent increase). The last similar year was 2009, with 471 murders. While problematic, these statistics come nowhere near the levels of violence faced by the City in the 1980s and 1990s.
New York Crime Rates 1960 - 2019. The data in the crime reports is derived from the annual Uniform Crime Reports issued by the FBI until 2020, at which time the FBI stopped releasing the annual reports in favor of its own electronic search engine.
