Dangerous Weapons reports in New York City

What 6,557 Dangerous Weapons reports measure

6,557 rows are coded Dangerous Weapons as NYPD labeled the report. That published string is a weapons-related offense type, not a shooting count, not a homicide count, and not a hospital trauma tally. The official published label is "Dangerous Weapons." LocalCrimeVault does not rewrite that string.

The 6,557 figure is a count of incident records, not unique people and not recovered items. Felony assault, robbery, and other person types remain outside this total even when a reader might assume a weapon was present. Mixing those labels with Dangerous Weapons would inflate a total NYPD did not publish as one field.

How NYPD type labels work on this feed

Every row on the New York City open-data incident extract carries a type field drawn from NYPD offense classification as published. If a report was written as Dangerous Weapons, it stays under that string here. This page does not split the 6,557 rows into firearm, knife, or other subtypes the packet does not contain.

A primary type is not a criminal conviction. A single field event can involve more than one offense; the public extract typically exposes one published type per row. Other agencies may file similar events under weapons-violation or brandish-weapon names that never appear in this New York City list.

Weapons language in public debate often folds shootings, assaults, and recoveries into one number. This page does not. Dangerous Weapons is the published NYPD string for 6,557 rows. Person-crime types with other labels stay outside that total. This extract is one harvest of NYC Open Data as indexed on LocalCrimeVault, not a hospital trauma series.

Dangerous Weapons as a share of New York City reports

Relative to 400,500 New York City incidents, 6,557 reports coded Dangerous Weapons are about 1.6 percent of the city file. High-volume property and person types dominate the rest of that mix. A smaller share does not mean the label is unimportant to residents; it means this string is less common in the published extract than petit larceny or harassment types.

Keep the denominator in view: 1.6 percent of the indexed city total is not a weapons-crime rate. Rates need a population or exposure denominator that this packet does not include.

Reports, not convictions

A Dangerous Weapons row means a report was taken and coded. It does not mean a prosecutor filed a charge, a judge entered a finding, or a person was identified. Treating 6,557 as a conviction tally would overstate legal outcomes.

New York City Police Department publishes the underlying incidents through NYC Open Data. LocalCrimeVault indexes that feed. If the agency later updates a record, the public count can move. This page describes the extract as harvested, not a forecast and not a neighborhood safety score.

How to read the Dangerous Weapons table

The type hub lists the 6,557 rows with the fields NYPD shares publicly: date, coarse location, and related attributes. Block ranges are intentionally coarse. They are not street-number addresses, and they are not proof that a named person was involved.

Nothing in the 6,557 count tells you clearance, seizure outcome, or whether a case was later sealed. Those outcomes are outside this extract. If a filter reduces the table, you have left the headline on purpose.

A block range on a Dangerous Weapons row is not a recovery address and not an identification of a person. The 6,557 count does not say what item was listed or whether it was seized. Cite the unfiltered type hub when you mean the city-wide headline.

Where to go next in the New York City data

Use the New York City type hub for the live table of these 6,557 rows. The city-wide New York City hub places this weapons label beside the rest of the published mix so the 1.6 percent share is visible in context. A cross-city view of the same type slug exists; definitions still follow each agency's feed.

If you are documenting a method, record the extract and the 6,557 / 400,500 pair. Open-data crime files are living tables. Cite the overlay table for row-level fields. Keep reports and convictions in separate sentences. Do not treat this guide as a live dispatch feed or a court docket.

The headline count on this page is 6,557 indexed reports for the published type label against a city file of 400,500 reports. LocalCrimeVault indexes the public incident feed for New York City. Cite the overlay table for row-level fields. Keep reports and convictions in separate sentences. Do not treat this guide as a live dispatch feed, a victimization survey, or a court docket. If a later harvest moves the integer, the new snapshot is a new citation, not a silent revision of this page.

Questions

How many Dangerous Weapons reports are in the New York City index?

This extract includes 6,557 New York City incidents coded Dangerous Weapons. That is about 1.6 percent of 400,500 city incidents indexed on LocalCrimeVault. The figure counts police reports from NYC Open Data, not convictions, seizures, or unique offenders. NYPD assigned the type; LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges.

Is Dangerous Weapons the same as felony assault or robbery?

No. This page covers only rows whose published type is Dangerous Weapons (6,557 reports). Other person and property labels on the New York City feed are separate. Mixing categories would inflate totals. Use the city hub if you need the mix of all types against 400,500 reports.

Does a Dangerous Weapons incident mean someone was convicted?

No. Public incident rows are reports. They can remain in the open-data feed if no arrest was made, if charges were declined, or if the case was later unfounded and not yet removed. The 6,557 count should be read as report volume. Court records live outside this narrative.

Where does LocalCrimeVault get New York City Dangerous Weapons counts?

Counts come from New York City Police Department incidents published on NYC Open Data and indexed here. Offense types are NYPD offense classification as published. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges. Compare the type table with the New York City hub if you need this label next to the other 400,500 city reports.