The New York World created this interactive map of New York City, which compares the 2012 homicide rate of each police precinct to that of a similar international country. Astoria/Long Island City, with its 2.96 homicides per 100,000 people, is like Libya; East Harlem, with its 25 homicides per 100,000 people, is like Brazil. My neighborhood is like New Zealand, with its 1.5 homicides per 100,000 people. What’s yours?
New York City murders for the first half of 2013 totalled just 156, down 25% percent from the first half of 2012. Homicides hit their lowest number since the early 1960's in 2012. The NYPD claims that this is a result of placing extra police officers in certain high crime "impact…
There's an old axiom that says warm weather tends to drive more violent crime. It makes sense--people are out of their houses and interacting with each other more often, and it only follows that some of those interactions are going to be violent. This week in New York City, with…
For advocates of safer streets in New York City, the NYPD's indifference to traffic violence is all but a given -- why else would so few deaths go uninvestigated? Now, at least one police source is making that apathy explicit to the New York Post. Under Mayor Bill de Blasio's "Vision Zero"…
