Summary Underreporting Violent Crime in New York City: Deviations from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) definitions have led to a significant underreporting of violent crime statistics in New York City (NYC). This has caused a persistent underrepresentation of violent crimes, with major felonies being reported at much lower rates than they actually occur. Political […]

Misused Subway Crime Metrics A long chorus of politicians, government officials, and mass transit advocates have consistently misused baseline metrics to measure subway crime in New York City (NYC) to give riders a false sense of security. For example, New York City Police Department Transit Chief Michael Kemper, appeared on PIX11 morning news last week

While NYC Council Member Christopher Marte (District 1) galivants around town attending parties and advocating on behalf of violent criminals, his constituents in Chinatown continue to suffer as major felonies increased 25% last week, 15.6% year-to-date, 68.7% over the level it was two-years ago, and 26.7% over the level it was 13-years ago. If the

NYC Over the last week, NYC Mayor Eric Adams, Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (A/K/A AOC), Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Congressman Jerry Nadler, and their respective political allies have been cherry-picking or even making up numbers to counter criticism about the level of crime and lawlessness in NYC. Below is a statistical analysis detailing how crime

Three days ago, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and twenty-eight other elected officials published an open letter to Congressman Jim Jordan, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, which distorted the facts about crime in Manhattan since Alvin Bragg took office as Manhattan District Attorney. Rather than cherry-pick numbers as these clowns love to do, I