Sixth Precinct Crime Data
- Year-to-date crime complaints in the Sixth Precinct increased 6.1% year-over-year compared to a -3.2% decrease in citywide crime (as of 28 April 2013).
- Crime bottomed in the Sixth Precinct in 2011 after declining steadily for many years. Information from the NYPD indicates total crime complaints in the Sixth Precinct increased approximately 7% in 2012.
- In comparison, citywide crime increased by a smaller amount in 2012, up just 3% versus the 7% increase in the Sixth Precinct.
There were approximately nine crime complaints per day in the NYPC Sixth Precinct (West Village and area east of Sixth Avenue to Broadway between Houston and 14th Streets) year-to-date as of 28 April 2013 according to NYPD crime data. This data does not include information for other types of police activity, such as the number of radio runs, calls about trespassing, grafitti charges or resisting arrest.
Using the residential population of the West Village versus Greenwich Village east of Sixth Avenue as a proxy, approximately half of these daily crimes (4.5 per day) occurred in the West Village. There is no public data bifurcating the crime statisitcs for the Sixth Precinct into smaller areas. 86% of the total tabulated crime complaints in the Sixth Precinct related to instances of stealing (robbery, burglary, grand larceny, grand larceny auto, petit larceny) compared to 71% citywide.
Year-to-date crime complaints increased 6.1% year-over-year compared to a -3.2% decrease in citywide crime. Notably, instances of grand larceny (which comprised 39% of total crime statistics in the precinct) increased 32% year-over-year as of 24 March 2013.
The Sixth Precinct had a slightly higher crime rate than the rest of the city. Every day one out of 12,000 people called in a crime in the Sixth Precinct compared to one of of 14,000 citywide. These figures use NYPD crime statistics and population data for the Sixth Precinct and for all of New York City.
Crime bottomed in the Sixth Precinct in 2011 after declining steadily for many years. Information from the NYPD indicates total crime complaints in the Sixth Precinct increased approximately 7% in 2012. In comparison, citywide crime increased by a smaller amount in 2012, up just 3% versus the 7% increase in the Sixth Precinct. This tabulation includes all types of crime complaints, from murders to petit larceny. Excluding cases of petit larceny (such as a person stealing a bottle of shampoo from a drug store), crime increased 5% in 2012.
Just including the first seven categories in the weekly NYPD CompStat report, crime in the Sixth Precinct increased 0.4% in 2012 after dropping 3% annually from 2011 to 2011.
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