NYC
Police Department Crime Statistics for Brooklyn
North
Crime
Categories |
2000
(through 10/29) |
1999
|
NYC
total
1999 |
Brooklyn
South 1999 |
|
Murder
|
118
|
139
|
667
|
108
|
Rape
|
343
|
367
|
2087
|
380
|
Robbery
|
4846
|
5463
|
35,646
|
6383
|
Felonious
Assault |
3992 |
4056 |
25,963
|
4498
|
Burglary |
3924 |
4281 |
41,310
|
8287
|
Grand
Larceny |
3107 |
3044 |
50,129
|
6521
|
Grand
Larceny Auto |
3041 |
2901 |
39,021
|
8274
|
Statistics
for Brooklyn from the US Census Bureau
|
Population,
1999 |
2,268,297
|
|
|
Percent
of Population Below Poverty Line, 1993 |
31.6%
|
|
|
Unemployment
Rate, 1996 |
10.0%
|
|
|
Median
Household Income, 1993 |
$24,122
|
|
|
Deaths,
1994 |
21,865
|
|
|
Deaths
per 1000 Resident Population, 1994 |
9.6%
|
|
|
Population
Breakdown, 1996*: |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic |
22.8%
|
|
|
|
Asian
or Pacific Islander |
6.3%
|
|
|
|
Black |
41.0%
|
|
|
|
White
|
52.3%
|
|
|
|
American
Indian |
.4%
|
|
|
*
Total exceeds 100 percent because Hispanic
residents are also counted as either Black
or White |
|
|