After a rocky start to the year, major crime in Brooklyn dropped by over 5% in February, according to the latest NYPD statistics.
In the 28-day period from Feb. 2-March 1, the rate of major felonies — murder, rate, robbery, assault, burglary, grand larceny and grand larceny auto — was down 5.6% compared to the same period in 2025.
The numbers were driven by a significant drop in murder. Compared to last year, murders were down 50%, from eight to four; murder is also down a whopping 64% year-to-date.
That trend isn’t exclusive to Brooklyn, as city officials this week celebrated a historically-low number of murders and shootings across New York City.
“Once again, the NYPD is demonstrating how targeted, data-driven policing is reducing crime and keeping communities safe,” said NYPD commissioner Jessica S. Tisch, in a statement. “In the first two months of this year, we have seen the fewest shooting incidents, shooting victims, murders, and burglaries in recorded history for January and February combined.”
While shootings were down citywide, they were up 15% in Brooklyn, with 15 incidents compared to 13 during the same period last year. The number of shooting victims similarly increased by 30%, with 17 people injured or killed compared to 13 in 2025.
In a Feb. 17 incident, an armed robber shot a man in the stomach and stole his smart phone in Crown Heights. The same day, one man was injured and another was killed in a shooting inside an East New York apartment building.
In Sunset Park on Feb. 22, a man was shot in the leg by a gunman who was apparently aiming at another target, and a 13-year-old boy was shot multiple times outside Low Houses in Brownsville on Feb. 20.
Despite the spike, shootings in Brooklyn are down 24% year-to-date after declining 50% in January.
Theft — which increased across the board in Brooklyn in January — declined significantly last month, with robbery falling 6.4%, burglary .8%, grand larceny 10%, and grand larceny auto 1.4%.
Some precincts — specifically in the Brooklyn North patrol — bucked the trend with rising numbers of robberies. Bushwick’s 83rd Precinct in particular saw robbery rise by a whopping 118%, even as it declined across the borough.
The borough continued to see high numbers of sex crimes and saw a spike in transit crime.
Rape was up more than 15% across Brooklyn, with other sex crimes — which are assessed separately from major felonies — up 32%. Citywide, rape jumped by 8.6% in February and sex crimes 4.1%.
Transit crime was up 61% in Brooklyn, for a total of 50 incidents, including the assault of a bus driver in Canarsie on Feb. 6.
The NYPD said the citywise increase in transit crime coincided with record-cold temperatures as the city paused its policy of ejecting people from the system for violating the rules. Many of the incidents were nonviolent grand larcenies, per the department, but 27.1% were assaults. Two women were physically attacked inside the 53rd Street station in Sunset Park on Feb. 14, and one was shoved onto the tracks.
The department has dispatched roughly 140 extra cops to the transit system each day in response to the increase.
