Data analyses
System Data
Making criminal justice system data available to all New Yorkers
Regularly updated data showing statistical details and trends at every point in the city’s criminal justice system. Additional data analyses and data sources help provide context for criminal justice policy at every level of government.
Last Updated: 1/27/2026
Reports
Data Analysis
A review of the numerous factors that led to an increase in the City’s jail population. (12/2020)
• EXPLAINER: What’s behind the jail population increase?
• Source data used in jail population explainer.
An examination of the justice system’s role in the increase in the City’s jail population. (10/2021)
• EXPLAINER: What’s the justice system’s role in driving the jail population up?
• Source data used in the justice system jail population explainer.
A look at the statistics related to re-arrest rates for people with an active criminal case against them. (12/2021)
• EXPLAINER: How many people with open cases are re-arrested?
• Source data used in the open case re-arrest explainer.
• EXPLAINER: How many people were rearrested within a year?
• Source data used in the yearly re-arrest explainer.
External Data Links
New York Police Department (NYPD)
• NYPD Regular crime reporting
• COMPSTAT 2.0 Current crime data
• Open Data Current and historical crime complaints, arrests, summonses
Criminal Justice Agency (CJA)
• Pretrial Data and Research Explore data on prosecuted cases and more
Department of Correction (DOC)
• Regular reporting DOC at a Glance, Population Reports, Recidivism (under “Annual Reports on Mentally Ill Incarcerated Individuals and Recidivism”)
• Open Data
– Daily Population in Custody
– Monthly Admissions
– Monthly Discharges
Administration for Children’s Services (ACS)
• Flash Indicators Juvenile Justice system numbers
NYS OPEN DATA
• Historical public safety data, including arrests
Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) • Criminal justice statistics compiled and reported by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services
Board of Correction (BOC)
• Board of Correction reports, including COVID monitoring
DATA2GO
• Range of social, health, criminal justice, and economic data by community district
NYC Community Health Profiles
• Profiles of the 59 community districts across NYC