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New York City Police Department

City agency in New York, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2023.

ORI
NY0303000
Type
City
County
Not stated
State
New York (NY)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2023-01-01
Location
40.7766, -73.9702

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 8,496,850.

33,604Sworn officers
13,237Civilian staff
5.51Employees per 1,000 people
8,496,850Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
202533,60413,2378,496,8505.51
202433,30713,4978,299,2715.64
202333,31614,1008,184,0445.79
202234,01214,5728,236,5675.90
202135,04714,9828,475,3875.90
202034,01816,0658,300,3776.03
201936,56316,1338,379,0436.29
201836,13416,1448,523,1716.13
201736,37815,7018,616,3336.04
201636,22815,1718,566,9176.00
201535,39514,9718,550,8615.89
201434,58115,0848,473,9385.86

Officer and civilian counts are full-time employees as filed by the agency in its annual return. A dash means the agency did not report that figure for that year — it does not mean zero.

Crime and clearances

Offences and clearances filed by New York City Police Department in its monthly returns to the FBI, added up by calendar year, 2019–2026. Violent crime and property crime are the FBI’s two categories. These are the counts as filed: Police Census does not turn them into a rate.

Violent crime
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20267 of 1229,50321,95474.4%
20251256,08138,44268.5%
20241257,59837,54465.2%
20231255,84732,93759.0%
20221261,29300.0%
20211212300.0%
20201247,95926,76855.8%
20191247,82130,05262.8%
Property crime
YearMonths filedOffencesClearedCleared as % of offences
20267 of 12100,47632,67732.5%
202512195,44858,30329.8%
202412200,46355,54627.7%
202312200,07842,80321.4%
202212176,39500.0%
20211248100.0%
202012129,36119,31514.9%
201912122,29928,31823.2%

Reading the table. “Not reported” means the agency filed nothing for that year; it does not mean zero. A 0 is a figure the agency filed. For 2026 the FBI is still collecting: that year is not complete in the file we read, so where this agency has no 2026 figures the table says “Not yet in the FBI’s file” rather than “Not reported”. We can see that the agency is absent from the file so far; we cannot tell whether it has not filed or has not yet been published, and we do not guess. A year marked “7 of 12” adds up only the months the agency filed, so it is not a full-year total. A dash in the last column means the percentage cannot be worked out: it needs both figures, and at least one offence.

“Cleared” is the FBI file’s clearance count for the year. Clearances in a year can relate to offences from earlier years, so the percentage is not the share of that year’s offences that were solved, and it can exceed 100%. Figures are not adjusted: a year far below the agency’s neighbouring years, or a 0 beside many offences, may reflect what was submitted rather than what happened. The file does not say which, and Police Census does not guess.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, summarized data for agency record NY0303000.

Arrests

Arrests made by New York City Police Department, all offences combined, as filed with the FBI and added up by calendar year, 2019–2026.

YearMonths filedArrests
20267 of 12143,532
202512244,283
202412227,950
202312187,422
202212135
2021120
2020120
2019120

“Not reported” means the agency filed nothing for that year; it does not mean zero. A year marked “7 of 12” adds up only the months filed. For 2026 the FBI is still collecting, so an absent agency reads “Not yet in the FBI’s file”: absent from the file so far, which is not the same claim as having filed nothing. A 0 is the figure as filed: the file does not distinguish an agency that made no arrests from one that did not submit them, and Police Census cannot either. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, arrest data for agency record NY0303000.

Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file

456 incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for New York City Police Department for 2025, as at 14 August 2026. The table lists every year from 1991 to 2025 for which the file has at least one.

Incidents appearing in the FBI’s file, as at 14 August 2026
YearIncidents appearing in the file
2025456
2024657
2023612
2022592
2021513
2020270
2019423
2018351
2017318
2016361
2015307
2014307
2013314
2012374
2011240
2010348
2009272
2008263
2007295
2006273
2005249
200497
2003291
2002291
2001321
2000400
1999373
1998475
1997512
1996535
1995416
1994506
1993470
1992583
1991482
Bias motivation recorded, in the FBI’s words, 1991–2025
Bias motivationIncidents
Anti-Jewish5,916
Anti-Gay (Male)1,855
Anti-Black or African American1,827
Anti-White785
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry769
Anti-Hispanic or Latino474
Anti-Asian425
Anti-Islamic (Muslim)352
Anti-Lesbian (Female)268
Anti-Other Religion264
Anti-Catholic165
Anti-Transgender133
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group)78
Anti-Multiple Races, Group73
Anti-Female29
Anti-Arab26
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group21
Anti-Buddhist17
Anti-Protestant11
Anti-Gender Non-Conforming10
Anti-Other Christian10
Anti-Hindu9
Anti-Sikh7
Anti-Physical Disability6
Anti-Church of Jesus Christ3
Anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other)3
Anti-Jehovah's Witness3
Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native2
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism2
Anti-Male2
Anti-Bisexual1
Anti-Mental Disability1

Absence from this file is not a zero. The file lists incidents that were reported to the FBI. An agency can be missing from it because it recorded none, because it did not report, or because it does not take part in the FBI’s hate crime program, and nothing Police Census holds can tell these apart. In any one year the file lists incidents for only a minority of the agencies the FBI counts as reporting.

The figures are counts of incidents as they appear in the file, as at 14 August 2026; Police Census does not turn them into a rate and does not compare them with other agencies. Offence and bias wording is the FBI’s own, unaltered. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, additional datasets, hate crime bulk file, agency record NY0303000.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

141 people have died during an encounter with New York City Police Department between 2013 and 2026, according to the two datasets named below.

141Deaths recorded
1.66Per 100,000 people policed
2013–2026Period covered
Recorded causeDeaths
Gunshot129
Gunshot, Taser5
Taser3
Physical Restraint2
Beaten1
Other1

What this figure is and is not. It counts deaths recorded as occurring during an encounter with this agency. It is not a finding of wrongdoing, and a death being recorded here says nothing about whether it was lawful. Many involve armed confrontations; some involve none. Police Census publishes counts only and does not name the people who died.

Source: every one of these records comes from Mapping Police Violence, which records deaths from 2013–2026. They are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. See Deaths for how these records are compiled. Mapping Police Violence data is displayed with attribution to its compiler; the written scope of this site’s right to display it is being confirmed (note dated 11 October 2026).

Military surplus received

Transferred under the Department of Defense 1033 programme, which passes surplus military equipment to law enforcement agencies at no cost. Values are the Department’s original acquisition cost, not what the equipment is worth today.

$1.5mOriginal acquisition value
2Line items received
2016–2017Years of transfers
ItemQuantityAcquisition valueMost recent
Mine Resistant Vehicle2$1.5m2017-01-18

Source: Defense Logistics Agency, Law Enforcement Support Office, public data as at 30 June 2026. Items are grouped by description; the date shown is the most recent shipment of that item.

Federal oversight

The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has taken the following action against New York City Police Department under 34 U.S.C. § 12601. The case type and document titles below are DOJ’s own words, reproduced without interpretation — see all federal oversight matters on /oversight.

DOJ’s case type: Investigation

Sub-unit: SVD within the NYPD. Attaches to the parent agency.

Source: Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section.

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record NY0303000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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