Use NYPD’s Updated Compstat System To Understand Crime In Our Area

Residents have a new tool to understand crime patterns in our area.

On Tuesday, the NYPD unveiled Compstat 2.0, a website which allows users to examine crime statistics up to the most recent week, identify crime locations by street intersection, and get other details about a crime.

In announcing the release of Compstat 2.0, the NYPD noted that crime data reporting has been largely limited to the seven major crime categories — murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny, and auto-related grand larceny — with few exceptions.

“There was no additional context provided such as date, time, or the specific type of crime within the broader category.” the NYPD said. “CompStat 2.0 addresses these issues.”

“Now any member of the public can visit https://compstat.nypdonline.org and conduct a crime data analysis that will provide all of these parameters,” the Police Department said.

We will be exploring Compstat 2.0 in the next several weeks but we took an initial look at statistics for robberies in the 70th Precinct, which extends south from Parkside Avenue all the way down to Avenue P, and is mainly bordered by Coney Island Avenue to the west and Nostrand and Bedford Avenues to the east.

As you can see in the table below, Compstat 2.0 reports that there have been 16 robberies in the 70th Precinct in the last 28 days.

On the Compstat screen, you will also see a map showing showing the locations — actually the closest intersection — for each of the crimes in the category you have selected.

To take a closer look, you can blow up the map by clicking on the white icon above it. See our red arrow below.

And when you blow up the map, you can zero in on a particular location. Take a look at all the blue dots close to the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Farrugut Road below. Those are all individual robberies.

When you click on these dots, you get some details about the crime. In this case the robbery took place at a food supermarket on January 31st at 10pm.

One thing that is made much more obvious by mapping the robberies in the 70th Precinct is that most of them took place east of the B/Q subway line.

It’s important to remember that the 70th Precinct’s western boundary mainly lies along Coney Island Avenue –only a handful of blocks from the B/Q subway tracks. Nonetheless, the blocks between Coney Island Avenue and East 16th Street did not see much robbery activity in the last 28 days.

We hope you will start exploring these statistics and let us know what you find!