The New York City Police Department (NYPD) releases weekly CompStat reports that provide statistics on crime in the city. The reports include data on crime trends, arrests, and other metrics. They are an important tool for understanding the scope and nature of crime in New York City.

These reports provide data on the city’s jail population, including demographics, length of stay, and reasons for detention. They are crucial for understanding the local correctional landscape.

Crime and Enforcement Activity in New York City: The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services releases an annual report that provides detailed data on crime and enforcement activity in New York City. The report includes information on crime rates, arrests, and other metrics broken down by precinct and other geographic areas.

The Vera Institute of Justice is a non-profit organization that conducts research on criminal justice issues. Its reports on New York City provide valuable insights into topics such as bail reform, alternatives to incarceration, and other issues related to criminal justice.

NYCLU often publishes reports on civil rights and liberties issues in New York, including those related to criminal justice such as police practices, surveillance, and the right to protest.

CJA is made of court staff, social workers, researchers, helpline specialists, policy planners and many more. All of them work together to forward a central mission: reducing unnecessary pretrial detention in New York City, and assisting those who have been released.

The Prison Policy Initiative is a source for timely and actionable criminal justice data

“The Effects of Youth Employment on Crime: Evidence from New York City Lotteries” by Judd B. Kessler, Sarah Tahamont, Alexander Gelber, Adam Isen (2023): Recent policy discussions have proposed government-guaranteed jobs, including for youth. One key potential benefit of youth employment is a reduction in criminal justice contact. Prior work on summer youth employment programs has documented little-to-no effect of the program on crime during the program but has found decreases in violent and other serious crimes among “at-risk” youth in the year or two after the program.

“Can Precision Policing Reduce Gun Violence? Evidence from ‘Gang Takedowns’ in New York City” by Aaron Chalfin, Michael LaForest, Jacob Kaplan. During the last decade, while national homicide rates have remained flat, New York City has experienced a second great crime decline, with gun violence declining by more than 50 percent since 2011. In this paper, we investigate one potential explanation for this dramatic and unexpected improvement in public safety—the New York Police Department’s shift to a more surgical form of “precision policing,” in which law enforcement focuses resources on a small number of individuals who are thought to be the primary drivers of violence.

“Policing Gentrification: Stops and Low-Level Arrests during Demographic Change and Real Estate Reinvestment” by Brenden Beck (2020). Does low-level policing increase during gentrification? If so, are police responding to increased crime, increased demand by new residents, or are they attempting to “clean up” neighborhoods marked for economic redevelopment? To address these questions, I construct a longitudinal dataset of New York City neighborhoods from 2009 to 2015. I compile data on neighborhoods’ demographics, street stops, low-level arrests, crimes, 311 calls to the police, and—using a novel measure—property values. Maps, spatiotemporal modeling, and fixed effects regressions compare changes in stops and low-level arrests to changes in several measures of gentrification.

“Disentangling the impact of Covid-19: an interrupted time series analysis of crime in New York City” by S Koppel, JA Capellan, J Sharp (2023). The Covid-19 stay-at-home restrictions put in place in New York City were followed by an abrupt shift in movement away from public spaces and into the home. This study used interrupted time series analysis to estimate the impact of these changes by crime type and location (public space vs. residential setting), while adjusting for underlying trends, seasonality, temperature, population, and possible confounding from the subsequent protests against police brutality in response to the police-involved the killing of George Floyd.

“‘We Can’t Get No Nine-to-Five’: New York City Gang Membership as a Response to the Structural Violence of Everyday Life” by R Swaner .This article draws on 287 in-depth interviews with young New York City gang members to understand the roles gangs serve in their lives, the impact of labeling the gang as criminal, and what a more critical perspective on gangs reveals about violence. Findings show that these youth find themselves in double-binds. While their gang membership is largely a reaction to the inequities and marginality they face from the police, unemployment, and poverty, efforts they undertake to survive—joining gangs, selling drugs, carrying weapons—only deepen their vulnerability to discrimination, involvement in the criminal legal system, and interpersonal violence.