The short version: The latest NYPD CompStat weekly report (covering May 11–17, 2026) shows overall index crime down 11.14% from the same week last year, with murder down two-thirds, robberies down nearly 17%, and shootings down 13%. The two upward arrows worth flagging for residents: hate crimes (up 50% for the week) and transit complaints (up 26.3% for the week). Here is what those numbers actually mean if you live, commute, or run a business in New York City.
What this week’s NYPD CompStat report actually says
Every Monday, the NYPD CompStat Unit posts a one-page PDF that summarizes the seven major felony categories the department tracks: murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny, and grand larceny auto. The most recent edition — Volume 33, Number 20, covering the week of 5/11/2026 through 5/17/2026 — was published to the NYPD’s citywide crime statistics page and is the document we are decoding here.
The headline number is the seven-felony total. For the week, there were 2,169 major felony complaints citywide, compared to 2,441 in the same week of 2025 — a drop of 11.14%. The 28-day rolling window is down 12.29%. Year-to-date through May 17, total major felonies are down 6.23% versus 2025.
For a resident trying to translate that into a decision — should I worry more this week than last? Should I worry more this year than last? — the honest answer based on the city’s own data is no, with two specific exceptions noted below.
The week-over-year numbers, decoded category by category
Here is what the CompStat report shows for the week of May 11–17, 2026 compared to the same calendar week in 2025, alongside what each category covers in plain English.
- Murder: 2 complaints, down from 6 (-66.7%). Two homicides in a city of 8.3 million in a single week is the lowest end of NYC’s modern range. The year-to-date murder count of 89 is down 25.2% from 119 at this point in 2025, and down 87.5% from the 1990 baseline.
- Rape: 41 complaints, up from 40 (+2.5%). A one-incident change in a small base. The 28-day window is down 4.2%; year-to-date is up 7.3%. The separate UCR Rape count (which uses the FBI definition rather than the New York State Penal Law definition) shows 53 for the week, up from 45.
- Robbery: 265 complaints, down from 319 (-16.9%). Robbery is the category most residents actually feel — phone snatches, store stick-ups, street muggings. Year-to-date robberies are down 10.5%, and down 85% versus 1990.
- Felony assault: 609 complaints, down from 614 (-0.8%). Essentially flat. This is the category that includes serious physical attacks not involving a weapon-as-theft. The 28-day window is down 8.4%, but the 16-year trend is still up 77.5%, which is a long-running structural pattern, not a this-week story.
- Burglary: 206 complaints, down from 243 (-15.2%). Includes residential and commercial break-ins. Year-to-date burglaries are down 19.2%, continuing a clear multi-year decline.
- Grand larceny: 812 complaints, down from 930 (-12.7%). This is the largest single felony category by volume and includes thefts over $1,000 — most commonly stolen cell phones, laptops, and high-value bicycles. Year-to-date is down 4.1%.
- Grand larceny auto: 234 complaints, down from 289 (-19.0%). Car thefts are down 10.0% year-to-date and down 90.0% versus 1990. If you own a car in NYC, the math has been moving in your favor for three decades and continued to do so this week.
Two things going the other direction
The same report has two numbers that did rise — and both deserve to be flagged because they affect decisions residents actually make.
Hate crimes: 15 reported for the week, up from 10 (+50.0%). The 28-day window shows 69 versus 49 last year (+40.8%). Year-to-date is 243 versus 228 (+6.6%). The week-over-week change is on a small base, so a single five-incident swing produces a large percentage. But the 28-day window is the more meaningful read: that is a sustained increase over a full reporting cycle, not noise. If you are a member of a community that has historically been targeted, the practical decoding is: situational awareness matters more this month than it did this time last year, and the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force can be reached through 911 in an emergency or through the local precinct for non-emergency reporting.
Transit complaints: 48 for the week, up from 38 (+26.3%). This is the count of major felonies reported in the subway and bus systems. The 28-day window is up 8.6% and the year-to-date number is essentially flat (+0.2%). One week is not a trend, but for daily commuters the resident-decision translation is: if you ride late, the historic pattern of awareness on late-night platforms and end cars still applies. Housing Authority crime, by contrast, is down 16.2% for the week and down 10.2% year-to-date.
The number CompStat does not put on the front page: traffic fatalities
The CompStat report includes a single traffic-statistics line that residents almost never see quoted in news coverage. For the week of May 11–17, there were 4 traffic fatalities, down from 7 in the same week of 2025 — a 42.9% drop. Year-to-date, however, traffic fatalities are up 7.9% (68 versus 63). In a typical year, traffic fatalities kill significantly more New Yorkers than homicides. If you make daily decisions about how you cross streets, ride a bike, or drive, this is the line on the CompStat report that is most likely to affect you statistically.
Putting one week in historical perspective
The NYPD CompStat report includes a “Historical Perspective” table comparing the most recent complete calendar year (2025) to 1990, 1993, 1998, and 2001. That table is the single best context for whether one week’s numbers should change your behavior. The 2025 totals show:
- Murders: 309 in 2025 vs. 2,262 in 1990 — an 86.3% decline over 35 years.
- Robberies: 15,075 in 2025 vs. 100,280 in 1990 — an 85.0% decline.
- Burglaries: 12,798 in 2025 vs. 122,055 in 1990 — an 89.5% decline.
- Grand larceny auto: 13,523 in 2025 vs. 146,925 in 1990 — a 90.8% decline.
- Total seven-felony index: 121,652 in 2025 vs. 527,257 in 1990 — a 76.9% decline.
For a resident, the meaning of those long-range numbers is straightforward: the baseline against which any given week should be judged is dramatically lower than what most adults who lived through the late 1980s and early 1990s carry in their heads. A week with 2,169 major felony complaints across 8.3 million people is, by historical NYC standards, a quiet week — and a week that came in 11% below the same week the prior year.
What the report does and does not tell you about your block
The citywide weekly PDF is a citywide aggregate. It does not tell you the picture in your specific precinct. For block-level decisions, the NYPD publishes a parallel set of borough and precinct reports on its borough and precinct crime statistics page, and the interactive CompStat 2.0 dashboard lets you drill into category, time-of-day, and command-level data. If you want incident-level data — meaning the actual location and category of each individual complaint — those datasets are published on NYC Open Data, with the current year’s running file available as the NYPD Complaint Data Current YTD set on data.cityofnewyork.us.
How to read next Monday’s release without spinning yourself out
One week is one week. The CompStat report is structured the way it is — with a 28-day window and a year-to-date column right next to the weekly number — for a reason: the weekly number is the noisiest of the three. A useful resident habit is to glance at the week, then immediately scan to the 28-day column to see whether the weekly direction is part of a trend or a one-week swing. For this week’s release, six of the seven major felony categories show declines in both the weekly and 28-day windows, which is the kind of agreement that justifies treating the trend as real rather than as a statistical bounce.
Frequently asked questions about NYC CompStat reports
How often does the NYPD release CompStat data?
The NYPD CompStat Unit publishes the citywide weekly PDF every Monday, covering the previous Monday-through-Sunday week. Borough and precinct reports are released on the same schedule. The interactive CompStat 2.0 dashboard at compstat.nypdonline.org is updated continuously.
Why does the rape number appear twice with different counts?
The main “Rape” line uses New York State Penal Law definitions, while the “UCR Rape” line uses the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting definition. The FBI definition is broader, which is why the UCR Rape number for the week (53) is higher than the NYSPL Rape number (41). Both are reported transparently on the same page of the CompStat PDF.
Is NYC crime up or down in 2026 so far?
According to the May 17, 2026 weekly report, the year-to-date total of the seven major felony categories is 40,403, down 6.23% from 43,088 at the same point in 2025. Murder, robbery, burglary, grand larceny, and grand larceny auto are all down year-to-date. Felony assault is essentially flat (-0.7%). Rape (using NYSPL definitions) is up 7.3% year-to-date.
Where can I see crime numbers for my specific neighborhood?
Use the NYPD’s borough and precinct crime statistics page to pull the weekly PDF for your patrol precinct. If you do not know your precinct, the NYPD’s “Find Your Precinct” tool on the same site will return it from your address.
Are these numbers final?
No. The CompStat report carries the standard disclaimer that “Figures are preliminary and subject to further analysis and revision.” Weekly numbers are reclassified throughout the year as investigations resolve and complaint categories are reviewed. The year-end figures published in the quarterly AC 14-150 Crime Status Reports are the more settled version of the same data.
Bottom line for residents
The week of May 11–17, 2026 was a low-end-of-the-range NYC crime week. Six of the seven major felony categories were down both weekly and over the 28-day window. The two exceptions that warrant resident attention are the 50% weekly rise in reported hate crimes (continuing a 40.8% 28-day increase) and the 26.3% weekly rise in transit complaints (which the 28-day data softens to +8.6%). On every other major category, the numbers are moving in the direction residents would want them to, and against a 35-year baseline they are dramatically lower than the city most longtime residents grew up in. Next Monday’s release will tell us whether the two upward arrows are noise or pattern.
Data verified against the NYPD CompStat Citywide Weekly Report, Volume 33 Number 20, covering 5/11/2026 through 5/17/2026, published at nyc.gov/nypd. All figures in this article come directly from that primary source PDF; no third-party reporting was used as a substitute.
