The crime in April was slightly received in all of Brooklyn, although the downward trend slowed down • Brooklyn Paper

A NYPD officer at the scene of a riser on April 21st in Greenpoint.

Photo by Lloyd Mitchell

The reports of large crimes in all of Brookly have dropped by 3% in April compared to the same period of the previous year – while crime has dropped every month, the decline shrinks when the warmer weather approaches.

In January, the violent crime in King's County decreased by 27% compared to the previous year. It was 16%in February and 6%in March.

And while Brooklyn's collective crime rate had dropped this month, the tariffs of the seven great crimes – murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, Grand Theft and Grand Theft Auto – rose in 12 from Brooklyn's 23 police districts.

The attack compared to the last year over the last year compared to the previous year increased by more than 13% NYPD statisticsWith a total of 687 attacks that were reported between April 1 and 27.

Most of the other major crimes had dropped across the district, but had been moved in some parts of the city.

In the Brooklyn North Patrol District, for example, Grand Theft rose by 3.2% by 6.8% and Grand Theft car, although both crimes in the community were in the city. Rape and robbery rose by 50% and 8.1% in Brooklyn South.

The rape continued to rise when other crimes decreased, and the statistics were only 2.1% back in the entire district-with 40 rapes from April 1 to 27 compared to 41 in the same period of the previous year.

In the city, rape increased by more than 20% in the first quarter of 2025 and 24.6% in April. NYPD officers have claimed that the increase is partially due to a change in state law that “expanded the definition of sexual assault. In Brooklyn, sexual crimes rose by 14%apart from rape in April.

The murder had decreased by 50% in April, as statistics show, and the shootings by 10% with five murders and 17 shootings in the entire district.

Nevertheless, Brooklyn saw a number of top -class shootings, including the fatal shootout from A on April 11th 45-year-old man in Brighton Beach and A Triple shoot On April 19, three people were injured in East Flatbush.

On April 27th an 18-year-old died After being shot into his chest in Coney Island, a 17-year-old was critically injured after he was shot in East Flatbush during a non-related incident April 29th.

There were also a number of stitches in the district. On April 21, a 28-year-old woman was stabbed From a stranger in front of an East Flatbush School. On the same day a 29-year-old man was found cut and bleed on a Greenpoint citizens after an obvious home dispute. Days later was a 52-year-old man stabbed Near a playground in Bushwick.

Outside of serious crimes, transit crimes rose by 19%compared to the previous year, with 31 incidents being reported across Brooklyn compared to 26 in the previous year. Hass crimes rose dramatically and rose from 16 to 29 by 81%.