INTERACTIVE MAP: Rise in Serious Crime Seen in Most NYPD Precincts
(DNAINFO) Murray Weiss —
NEW YORK CITY — Serious crime increased in three-quarters of the city’s neighborhoods last month as the New York heads into a summer that may be long, hot and violent, DNAinfo New York has learned.
Fifty-seven of the city’s 76 NYPD precincts reported spikes in serious crime during a four week period ending May 24 compared to the previous four weeks, according to NYPD statistics compiled on a new DNAinfo crime mapping system.
The other 19 precincts reported overall crime remained steady or declined during the period, compared to the previous month.
While it has long been police lore that crime rises with warmer weather, the trend is even more disturbing because it is not confined to the two eye-catching categories — murder and shootings — that Mayor Bill de Blasio and police brass have blamed on localized gang activities.
Serious crime includes rape, robbery, assault, burglary, grand larceny and auto theft.
DNAinfo New York’s map, which pulled data directly from the NYPD’s publicly available CompStat statistics, reveals rising criminal activity across broad swaths of the Big Apple — not just a few trouble spots.