Borough-Level Crime Data Shows That the Record Low Aggregate Contains Specific Local Conditions That Differ
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Borough-Level Crime Data Shows That the Record Low Aggregate Contains Specific Local Conditions That Differ
The Aggregate
NEW YORK — The citywide murder decline of 28 percent in Q1 2026 is the headline number. The borough-level detail: Brooklyn down 57 percent, Manhattan down more than 44 percent, Queens down 6 percent, Staten Island at zero (178 days without a murder), and the Bronx up two murders compared to Q1 2025 (21 versus 19). The Bronx increase is two murders. It is also the only borough where the trend went the wrong direction. Both facts deserve attention.
The Bronx Context
The Bronx’s 9.4 percent overall major crime reduction is the largest of any borough, which coexists with the two-murder increase. The specific crime categories that declined in the Bronx — robbery, assault, grand larceny — declined at a rate that makes the borough the leading contributor to the citywide improvement. The two-murder increase is a real increase. It is also the kind of variance that two data points in a comparison of small numbers produce: 21 versus 19 is a 10 percent increase in a category where individual incidents represent large percentage changes.
The Public Housing Story
Overall crime in public housing fell 7.2 percent, with murders, shooting incidents, shooting victims, and robberies all reaching record lows. NYCHA housing is the specific residential context where the crime reduction is most meaningful: the residents of NYCHA developments are predominantly low-income, the communities have historically had higher crime exposure than the city average, and the improvements in public housing crime statistics represent improved daily safety for the specific population that the crime reduction most directly serves.
School Crime
School-related crime declined 6 percent citywide, with shootings in the Bronx down nearly 75 percent where the issue is ‘most concentrated,’ according to NYPD. The school crime reduction is the crime statistic that connects most directly to the daily experience of the families who send children to New York City public schools. A 75 percent shooting reduction in Bronx schools is a transformation of the risk environment that those specific schools’ students experienced in 2025. The data is significant
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