NEW YORK CITY The NYPD Announces Citywide Crime Statistics For March 2022

NYC PUBLIC SAFETY: Overall the city's index crime increased by 36.5% in March 2022, compared to the same period a year ago (9,873 v. 7,232) – a total driven by a 59.4% increase in grand larceny auto (1,044 v. 655), a 48.4% increase in robbery (1,267 v. 854), and a 40.5% increase in grand larceny (4,078 v. v. 2,902).

Citywide burglaries also increased by 40% (1,326 v. 947) in March 2022 compared to last year.

Citywide shooting incidents increased by 16.2% (115 v. 99) in March 2022 compared with the same period last year.

Officers made 410 gun arrests in March 2022, driving the 1,207 arrests for illegal firearms in the first quarter of 2022.

This is the highest number of quarterly gun arrests since early 2021, when 1,385 such arrests were made.