Robbery reports in New York City vs Los Angeles
New York City complaint data in this index include 11,675 incidents coded as Robbery. Los Angeles police open data include 11,338 incidents with the same primary-type label. Combined they are 23,013 robbery-coded rows. New York City holds about 50.7% of the pair; Los Angeles holds about 49.3%. The gap is 337 reports — close enough that treating either city as “the robbery city” would over-read two harvests.
Key figures
- New York City has 11,675 robbery-coded reports; Los Angeles has 11,338.
- The paired total is 23,013 (about 50.7% / 49.3%); the gap is 337 rows.
- A near-even split is still not a safety ranking.
- Robbery is distinct from burglary in both city feeds.
- Both figures are incident reports, not convictions.
Robbery as a two-city join
This page pairs NYPD robbery complaints (11,675) with LAPD robbery incidents (11,338). Robbery, in both statutes, is taking property by force or threat, usually from a person. It is not burglary (structure entry) and not theft without that force. The join is the shared label, not a claim that every row would survive a crosswalk of Penal Law and California Penal Code.
A 50.7% / 49.3% split is still two files. Near-even counts can hide different mixes of street robbery, commercial robbery, and attempts. This packet has no those splits, so none are quoted. See robbery in New York City and robbery in Los Angeles for the live tables.
New York City’s 11,675 robbery rows
The New York City total is 11,675. NYPD complaint coding keeps robbery distinct from grand larceny and from felony assault. Degree and weapon fields may exist on the source row; they are not packet facts here. The 11,675 figure is the harvest count for primary type Robbery.
A complaint can remain on the portal without a conviction. Borough geography is not in this join. Use the New York City crime hub when you need robbery beside other types.
Los Angeles’s 11,338 robbery rows
The Los Angeles total is 11,338. LAPD robbery is typically force or fear against a person. Attempted robbery may sit in this type or in a related label depending on coding. This page does not publish an attempt subtotal. Location is usually a block range, not a named victim.
See the Los Angeles crime hub for robbery next to burglary, theft, and assault types. LocalCrimeVault does not recode LAPD rows into NYPD categories.
What a 337-report gap does not prove
New York City’s 11,675 is 337 rows above Los Angeles’s 11,338, about 3.0% more inside this pair. That is a small gap relative to the 23,013 combined total. It is not evidence that one city’s streets are more dangerous, that one department records more thoroughly, or that a policy in either city caused the difference.
Harvest windows, tourist volume, transit robbery coding, and how often an event is filed as assault plus theft instead of robbery can move hundreds of rows. Correlation is not causation. Do not rank the cities.
Reports versus charging outcomes
Neither 11,675 nor 11,338 is a prosecutor’s case count. Arrest flags are not convictions. If a later information uses a different statute, the open-data row may not change. All crime ties lists other offense comparisons.
Cite NYPD for 11,675 and LAPD / City of Los Angeles open data for 11,338. Keep both agency names if you publish the pair.
What the New York–Los Angeles robbery pair does not include
Weapon, transit, commercial-versus-street, and attempt splits are not packet facts. NYPD and LAPD may store those fields on source rows; this page does not publish them. The 337-row gap (11,675 versus 11,338) is small enough that a coding memo or a harvest-window difference could reverse which city sits higher. That is why a near-even pair is a poor ranking device.
Grand larceny, felony assault, and burglary are neighboring types. An event filed as assault plus theft in one city might be robbery in the other. This join does not recode those neighbors into robbery. Adding 11,675 to 11,338 gives 23,013 for this pair only. It is not a national robbery census and not a conviction total.
Cite NYPD for 11,675 and LAPD / City of Los Angeles open data for 11,338. Keep robbery distinct from burglary when you write the footnote. Arrest flags are process, not verdicts. Use robbery in New York City, robbery in Los Angeles, the two city hubs, and all crime ties for the unjoined tables.
Carjacking, if either department files it as robbery, sits inside 11,675 or 11,338 only when the officer used that primary type. This page does not publish a carjacking subtotal. Keep the 337-row gap labeled as a harvest difference, not as a street-risk score. LocalCrimeVault does not recode LAPD rows into NYPD complaint categories.
Questions
- How many robbery reports in New York City vs Los Angeles?
- This index includes 11,675 New York City robbery-coded incidents and 11,338 Los Angeles incidents. Combined they are 23,013 rows. New York City is about 50.7% of the pair; Los Angeles is about 49.3%. These are police reports, not convictions.
- Which city has more robbery, New York or Los Angeles?
- New York City has 11,675 rows and Los Angeles has 11,338, a gap of 337. This page does not rank cities as safer or worse. Near-even harvest counts are not a street-risk score.
- Is robbery the same as burglary in these feeds?
- No. Robbery is taking by force or threat, usually from a person. Burglary is a structure-entry type on separate pages. Do not add robbery totals to burglary totals and call the sum one crime.
- Are these robbery numbers convictions?
- No. They are municipal open-data incident reports. An arrest is not a conviction. LocalCrimeVault does not update rows when charges change in court.
Municipal open-data police reports (not convictions). City feeds differ in coverage and coding — counts are not a safety ranking.