Advertisement

Brooklyn Magazine Logo
(More)
(Less)
Brooklyn Magazine Logo Menu
Close
Arts & Leisure Community & Commerce Food & Drink Podcasts & Video
About Contact Advertise Privacy

Brooklyn Magazine

|

All rights reserved

Instagram icon Instagram icon Instagram icon Instagram icon Twitter icon Twitter icon Twitter icon Twitter icon

Menu

Close

Arts & Leisure Community & Commerce Food & Drink Podcasts & Video
About Contact Advertise Privacy
Instagram icon Instagram icon Instagram icon Instagram icon Twitter icon Twitter icon Twitter icon Twitter icon
Uncategorized |

Dec 2, 2014

Crime In New York Is The Lowest It Has Ever Been

By Margaret Eby

crime

You know those relatives who offer to buy you mace, or grimace in fear when you tell them about walking alone after dark in Park Slope? Well, here are some statistics to wave at them. In 2014, the violent crime rate in New York City is the lowest that it’s ever been. That’s right: The last 11 months have had historically low levels of robberies, murders, grand larcenies, and all the other nasty surprises that your great-aunt Rose warned you about when you moved here.

That announcement was via good old Mayor De Blasio and Bill Bratton at the Ingersoll housing development in Fort Greene. The record-low homicide rate of 2013 dipped even lower this year, and robberies are down 14 percent. Shootings were up 4 percent over last year, but a spike in gun-related crime that occurred earlier in the summer was quickly squelched.

De Blasio didn’t hesitate to take credit for the good news. After 11 months, New Yorkers can see a place “that is more unified,” he said, according to the New York Times. Well…maybe. We’re still willing to bet that no one is about to agree on which slice place is the best. But at least there’s no immediate threat of the plot of Escape From New York happening.

Tags:

crime, 

de Blasio, 

good news, 

homicide rate, 

You might also like curly linecurly linecurly line

Let’s Innovate: Northside Innovation’s Weekly Speaker Roundup

Community & Commerce

Community & Commerce

Let’s Innovate: Northside Innovation’s Weekly Speaker Roundup

Cruel Intentions Musical Experience Brings the ’90s Back in Style

Arts & Leisure

Arts & Leisure

Cruel Intentions Musical Experience Brings the ’90s Back in Style

A Look At The Bite Of Mikkel Carl’s Upcoming M23 Exhibit

Arts & Leisure

Arts & Leisure

A Look At The Bite Of Mikkel Carl’s Upcoming M23 Exhibit

Brooklyn Magazine

|

All rights reserved

About | Advertise | Contact | Privacy
page corner page corner page corner