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Sex Crimes reports in New York City

LocalCrimeVault indexes 6,105 New York City incidents with published type Sex Crimes. That is about 1.5 percent of the 400,500-report city extract. Source: NYC Open Data. The figure counts police reports, not convictions.

Key figures

  • 6,105 New York City incidents are coded Sex Crimes — about 1.5% of 400,500 city reports.
  • The type string is NYPD offense classification as published; this site does not recode it.
  • Rape is a separate published type and is not included in the 6,105 count.
  • Rows are police reports from city open data, not convictions or unique people.

What 6,105 Sex Crimes reports measure

6,105 rows are coded Sex Crimes as NYPD labeled the report. That published grouping is a type field on a public incident extract. It is not a court finding, not a named-victim list, and not a narrative of individual cases. The official published label is "Sex Crimes." LocalCrimeVault does not rewrite that string.

The 6,105 figure is a count of incident records, not unique people. Rape is a separate published type on this New York City feed and is not folded into 6,105. Mixing those labels would inflate a total NYPD did not publish as one field. This page stays statistical and does not describe alleged conduct.

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 Sex Crimes, it stays under that string here. This page does not split the 6,105 rows into subtypes the packet does not contain, and it does not add case detail beyond the public type count.

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 sex-offense or criminal-sexual-assault names that never appear in this New York City list.

This category is easy to over-describe. LocalCrimeVault publishes the count and the NYPD string, not case narratives. Sex Crimes is 6,105 rows in this harvest of NYC Open Data. Rape remains a separate type. Readers who need charging or trial outcomes must use court sources outside this index.

Sex Crimes as a share of New York City reports

Relative to 400,500 New York City incidents in this extract, 6,105 reports coded Sex Crimes are about 1.5 percent of the city file. High-volume property types dominate tables; a smaller share can still be the category residents ask about first. Volume is not a ranking of harm.

Keep the denominator in view: 1.5 percent of the indexed city total is not a victimization rate. Rates need a population or survey denominator that this packet does not include. Underreporting is a known issue for this category in any police file; this extract cannot measure reports that were never made.

Reports, not convictions

A Sex Crimes 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 6,105 as a conviction tally would overstate legal outcomes and misread a sensitive public-records table.

New York City Police Department publishes the underlying incidents through NYC Open Data. LocalCrimeVault indexes that feed. If the agency later updates or seals 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 Sex Crimes table

The type hub lists the 6,105 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 6,105 count tells you clearance, charging, or whether a case was later sealed. Those outcomes are outside this extract. Sort and filter the table; do not treat the headline as a story about any individual.

Coarse geography on a Sex Crimes row is not a residence identifier and not a named-person record. The 6,105 count should be cited as report volume. Do not treat a filtered subset as if it were still the city-wide headline. Respect for people in the file starts with not turning the table into a story.

Where to go next in the New York City data

Use the New York City type hub for the live table of these 6,105 rows. The city-wide New York City hub places this label beside the rest of the published mix so the 1.5 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 6,105 / 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, a victimization survey, or a court docket.

The headline count on this page is 6,105 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 Sex Crimes reports are in the New York City index?
This extract includes 6,105 New York City incidents coded Sex Crimes. That is about 1.5 percent of 400,500 city incidents indexed on LocalCrimeVault. The figure counts police reports from NYC Open Data, not convictions, arrests, or unique people. NYPD assigned the type; LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges.
Is Sex Crimes the same as the Rape type on this feed?
No. This page covers only rows whose published type is Sex Crimes (6,105 reports). Rape is a separate NYPD label on the New York City extract. Mixing categories would inflate totals. Use the city hub if you need the mix of all types against 400,500 reports.
Does a Sex Crimes 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 6,105 count should be read as report volume. Court records live outside this narrative.
Where does LocalCrimeVault get New York City Sex Crimes 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.

NYPD incidents via NYC Open Data, indexed on LocalCrimeVault. Counts are reports, not convictions.