NEW YORK CITY CRIME CONTINUES TO DECLINE WITH 1,700 FEWER MAJOR CRIMES IN JANUARY 2025

February 4, 2025

Index crime down 16.8% in all five boroughs, subway crime down 36.4%

Double-digit declines in murder, robbery, grand larceny, and auto theft

Lowest number of shootings in January since CompStat began tracking over 30 years ago, including record five straight days without a shooting victim

New York, New York – Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch announced today that New York City experienced significant reductions in crime and violence during the first month of 2025, with 1,700 fewer overall major crimes, a 16.8% decline compared to January 2024. This comes on the heels of 15.5% crime declines in the month of December.

The overall decrease in index crime encompassed all five boroughs and included a 36.4% decrease in subway crime, as well as double-digit declines in murder, robbery, grand larceny, auto theft, and shooting incidents. New York City also recorded the lowest number of shooting incidents in the month of January since CompStat began tracking the numbers over 30 years ago, including a record five straight days with no reported shooting victims.

These results are driven by deployments of police officers to hot-spot locations experiencing spikes in crime, or “zone” policing. Zone-based policing is a hyper local, data-driven policing model where problematic areas are identified by an algorithm that defines clusters of violence and disorder.

“January’s crime declines are an extraordinary testament to the work of our cops,” said NYPD Commissioner Tisch. “Every day, we are analyzing crime numbers and optimizing our deployments to put cops in zones that need them. That’s starting to deliver real results. And New Yorkers can expect more of that data-driven policing to come.”

Over the past three years, the NYPD has taken more than 20,000 illegal firearms off of our streets and out of our communities. These efforts are paying off. In the month of January, murder was down 24.2% compared to January 2024 (25 vs. 33), and shooting incidents were down 21.5%.

Other key major crime categories including robbery, grand larceny, and auto theft recorded particularly steep declines, driving the overall reduction in index crime. Robbery was down 26% (1,063 vs. 1,436); grand larceny was down 21.7% (3,256 vs. 4,161); and grand larceny-auto was down 23.1% (898 vs. 1,167). Felony assaults—which spiked upward in 2024—declined in January by 6.9%, compared to the same period in 2024 (1,983 vs. 2,130).

The NYPD’s Three Point Plan to address transit safety has led to a 36.4% drop in major crimes across New York City’s vast subway system compared to January 2024 (147 vs. 231). Hundreds of police officers have been reassigned from desk jobs into the system; and subway deployments were optimized to cover the highest crime stations and ensure officers are on trains and platforms (as opposed to entrances and mezzanines), where 78% of crime actually occurs. Additionally, the department has deployed two officers to patrol every overnight subway train between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. to address the overnight transit crime and make New Yorker’s feel safer.

Public housing developments saw a 14.5% decrease in crime, compared to the first month of 2024 (425 vs. 497).

The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force also reported a substantial drop in bias-related incidents, with eight fewer cases in January 2025 compared to the same month last year (30 vs. 38).

The department noted an increase in reported rapes, with 149 incidents reported in January 2025 compared to 106 in January 2024. Of these reported incidents, 88 occurred in 2025, while 61 were incidents from prior years. This increase is in part explained by recent legislative changes that rightfully expanded the legal definition of rape in New York to include victims of certain sexual assaults as rape victims. Additionally, a higher percentage of rape cases reported were domestic in nature. The NYPD continues to urge every survivor of sexual assault to come forward and report these incidents.

*All crime statistics are preliminary and subject to further analysis, revision, or change.*

Index Crime Statistics: January 2025

Additional Statistics: Jan. 2025

Rape Incident Reporting Statistics: Jan. 2025

(Reports filed from Jan. 1 – Jan 31 in years indicated)

Rape continues to be underreported. If you are a victim of sexual assault, please come forward. The 24-hour NYPD Special Victims Division hotline is: 212-267-RAPE (7273).

Hate Crimes Statistics: Jan. 2025

(Representing Jan. 1 – Jan. 31 for calendar years 2025 and 2024)

Note: Statistics above are subject to change upon investigation, as active possible bias cases may be reclassified to non-bias cases and removed from counted data.