CIVIC CENTER — The NYPD launched a website Tuesday afternoon that the public can use to see crime statistics mapped in their neighborhoods.
CompStat 2.0 shows weekly, monthly and year-to-date stats — including major crimes like murder and rape and lesser offenses like petit larceny — mapped out in every precinct in the city.
Users can see exactly when a particular crime happened in a neighborhood, mapped to the nearest intersection.
“This is the brilliance of the NYPD. That ability of constant innovation,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a press conference at One Police Plaza Tuesday. “I want people in this city to know this is another step towards being the strongest, best police force for the 21st century anywhere in this country, anywhere in the world, in fact.”
Preview of how #NYPD crime stat map will look when it's made available to public Tuesday afternoon. @DNAinfo pic.twitter.com/VHGe1ttSyn
— Ben Fractenberg (@fractenberg) February 23, 2016
The map will be available on the NYPD’s website and directly through https://compstat.nypdonline.org, which can be viewed on both computers and smartphones.
Weekly crime stats will update every Wednesday and may change slightly after some crimes are reclassified after the NYPD’s weekly CompStat meeting on Thursday morning.
Users can also click on a specific crime, like murder, to see each incident mapped out.
The right-side of the panel will allow people to dig deeper into the numbers by seeing, for example, what day of the week or precinct had the most incidents.
The information “will give the residents of this city get a timely sense of where and when crimes occur,” said NYPD Commissioner of Information and Technology, Jessica Tisch.
