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New York City Shootings and Felony Assaults by Year

Aggregate statistics from the article “New York's shootings fell to the fewest on file; its felony assaults are back at late-1990s levels”

No synthetic records. Published or computed tabulations containing no person-level records.

Records
Aggregate statistics
Place
New York City
Version
1.3.2,
Licence
CC BY 4.0; code MIT
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New York's shootings fell to the fewest on file; its felony assaults are back at late-1990s levels (version 1.3.2)

Shootings in 2025 were the fewest in the NYPD's open files, which begin in 2006; recorded felony assaults passed 1998's count, on a definition that has widened.

The article's own data file, aggregate statistics cut to what it analyses, and the script that computes every figure in it. Computed from: NYPD CompStat citywide report, week of 28 September to 4 October 2026; NYPD Shootings and Shooting Victims, January 2006 to June 2026; NYPD seven major felonies, 2000-2025; NYPD complaint and arrest records for felony assault, 2006 to June 2026; NYS DCJS index crimes by county, 1990-2024.

Files

FileRowsSizeWhat it holds
data.csv 274 18 KB The aggregate statistics the article's figures are computed from.
analysis.py 54 KB The script that computes every figure in the article (MIT).

Columns

data.csv: The data (4 columns)

series, year, value, source. The article and its script define each one.

Sources

Licence and credit

Data CC BY 4.0; the script MIT. Records we counted from government files stay under their publishers' terms. Public-use microdata are disclosure-protected records derived from survey responses, published by the issuing agency so that no respondent can be identified; synthetic records are generated by SparkyData and correspond to no real person, household or address. Neither may be used to identify anyone.

Credit it as:

SparkyData (2026). New York City Shootings and Felony Assaults by Year (version 1.3.2). Data CC BY 4.0.
https://sparkydata.dev/data/nyc-shootings-and-felony-assaults

The article gives the charts, the uncertainty of each comparison and a changelog. Corrections and questions: sparkytech.dev@gmail.com, or see corrections.