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Burglary
Manage public safety programs related to criminal activity. — Reduce the incidence of crime.
Burglary complaints were roughly flat from FY22 to FY23 before declining through FY25, which NYPD's Mayor's Management Report attributes broadly to citywide deterrence, intelligence-driven policing and swift-apprehension efforts across major felony crime categories. The much lower FY26 figure in this dataset reflects only part of the fiscal year rather than a full 12 months, so it is not directly comparable to earlier full-year totals.
Researched July 16, 2026 — NYPD, Fiscal 2025 Mayor's Management Report, NYPD, Preliminary Fiscal 2026 Mayor's Management Report
* Year to date — this fiscal year isn't complete, so it's not compared against prior years in the target/trend status above. The dashed marker projects a full-year estimate at the current year-to-date pace.
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| Fiscal year | Actual |
|---|---|
| FY22 | 14,793 cases |
| FY23 | 15,054 cases |
| FY24 | 13,142 cases |
| FY25 | 13,107 cases |
| FY26 (YTD) | 8,872 cases |
| FY26 (projected) | ~11,829 cases |
Why this is tracked
New York City created a professional, uniformed police department in 1845, following the model London had established with its Metropolitan Police in 1829, because the City's older system of volunteer night watchmen and constables was no longer adequate for a city growing as fast as New York was in the mid-19th century. Since then, managing programs to reduce and respond to criminal activity has remained the department's core public safety function, alongside the many other roles — traffic, counterterrorism, emergency response — it has taken on over nearly two centuries.
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Source: NYPD Office of Management Analysis and Planning — via NYC Open Data: Mayor's Management Report, Agency Performance Indicators
Coverage shown: FY22–FY26, reported monthly.
Definition: Number of incidents of burglary corresponding to New York State Penal Law.