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1 Crime and Enforcement Activity in New york city (Jan 1 Dec 31, 2014) William J. Bratton Police CommissionerIntroduction This report presents statistics on race/ethnicity compiled from the New york city Police Department s records management system. Crime Complaint Reports contain information on the crime victims race and ethnicity as recorded by the officers or precinct clerical staff interviewing the victim or complainant. The victim s description of any non-arrested suspects will also be recorded on the crime complaint report. Arrests made by the responding officers will be recorded on an arrest report associated with the crime complaint report and used to initiate the booking system.

2 Once the information has been entered and signed off by a supervisor it is stored in the Department s Enterprise Data Warehouse. The data for this report were drawn from the Data Warehouse. Additional information was drawn from a separate Homicide and Shooting Database that collects additional statistical information for Murder and Shooting incidents. The crime complaint and arrest data contained in this report represent crimes occurring from January 1, 2014 thru December 31, 2014 for the general crime complaint and arrest data (compiled on January 16, 2015).

3 The Murder and Shooting tables and charts are also based on incidents that occurred through December 31, 2014 as are the statistics presented for Firearm arrests (compiled on January 16, 2015). Stop Question and Frisk data and Violent Crime Suspect information are taken from the New york city Police Department s Stop, Question and Frisk Database which is also the source of the quarterly report on Stop Question and Frisk Activity supplied to the New york city Council for all 4 quarters 2014. Narcotics allegations, calls from the public to 911 and other hot lines reporting suspected drug sales and use, are from the Department 's NITRO system as of 1/20/2015.

4 Statistical Considerations Commercial victimizations are generally noted on crime complaint reports and are excluded from the statistics dealing with specific categories of crime. However it is likely that a small number of commercial victimizations may be inadvertently included in the victim data when a report is not properly classified as a commercial victimization. Those cases would generally present the race/ethnicity of employees as the crime victims. Both crime complaint reports and arrest reports are classified according to the most serious crime recorded or charge lodged.

5 Arrest statistics represent arrests made by all Police agencies operating within the confines of New york city and arresting and charging individuals with crime under New york State laws. The arrest statistics presented here do not include arrests made by federal agencies. Crime complaint statistics used in these tables and charts are from crimes occurring during calendar year 2014 and Arrest statistics presented represent arrests made iduring calendar year 2014. Crime complaint reports that were recorded during calendar year 2014 but report an incident occurring in prior years are excluded from these statistics.

6 Arrest reports included in these statistics do include arrests made during calendar year 2014 for incidents that may have occurred in prior years. Black Hispanic and White Hispanic categories have been combined into a single Hispanic category for the statistical tables and charts presented in this report. The categories of Black and White used in tables and charts through out this report therefore represent Black Non-Hispanic and White Non-Hispanic. The labels Black and White are used for the sake of brevity and simplicity of presentation in the various tables and charts.

7 The New york city Police Department s Crime Reporting System uses a two tiered crime classification system. The broadest level of categorization is used to present the statistics in this report. Specific broad Crime categories however may contain only some subcategories for which suspect descriptions are typically available ( a Larceny from the person will normally provide some suspect descriptive information while a larceny from a business office without a witness will not). For certain broad crime categories the number of crime complaints that contain suspect descriptions with race/ ethnicity information will therefore only be a portion of the total complaints recorded.

8 The tables included in the report contain overall statistics that explain the available victim and suspect information for each broad crime category. The victim count for the period for the example table below, Misdemeanor Criminal Mischief is 38,718. Of these victims had information on the race/ethnicity of a non-commercial victim. Within this crime complaint population suspect information was available for 14,140 suspects and the race/ethnicity of 6,920 of those suspects was available. During calendar year 2014 7,227 misdemeanor criminal mischief arrests were made and 7,174 of these records contained race/ethnicity information.

9 Misdemeanor Criminal Mischief Victim, Suspect, Arrestee Race/Ethnicity Victim Suspect Arrestee AMER IND Victims/Suspects/Arrests 3871814140 7227 Known Race/Ethnicity 231276920 7174% of Incidents With Race/Eth. Known ii Appendix A includes a description of the significant classification subcategories contained in the broad crime categories used in the tables and charts contained in this report.

10 An initial crime complaint report may record a crime with several suspects some of whom may be arrested at the time the crime is reported and recorded. The non- arrested suspects are included in the suspect statistics in the tables and charts included in this report and arrested individuals are included in the arrestee statistics. At the time these statistics were compiled additional follow up arrests may have been made increasing the number of arrested suspects. In so far as that situation has occurred within calendar year 2014 data presented the suspect and arrests data will overlap and count the same individual as both suspect and arrestee if a follow up arrest has been made during the period.