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Police trends Overdose deaths Sources & coverage Overdose deaths are New York City, ages 15 to 84. They are not police complaints, and 2023 and 2024 can still be revised.
01 / Police data
Drug offence trends Select a measure to inspect its trend. Missing years stay blank; partial years stay separate.
Dangerous drugs 18,6522025 2016: 22,674 2017: 21,829 2018: 15,236 2019: 13,498 2020: 8,180 2021: 7,780 2022: 8,681 2023: 13,095 2024: 15,249 2025: 18,652 Cannabis related offenses 2962025 2022: 75 2023: 359 2024: 336 2025: 296 Last updated 2026-10-01 Reviewed dataset
Latest complete year · 2025 18,652 police reports
Year over year +22.3% 2024 → 2025
Change since 2016 −17.7% 2016 → 2025
police reports 2025 · 18,652 0 12.7K 25.4K 2016: 22,674 2017: 21,829 2018: 15,236 2019: 13,498 2020: 8,180 2021: 7,780 2022: 8,681 2023: 13,095 2024: 15,249 2025: 18,652 2016 2021 2025 View chart data Dangerous drugs · police reports · complete years Year Value 2016 22,674 2017 21,829 2018 15,236 2019 13,498 2020 8,180 2021 7,780 2022 8,681 2023 13,095 2024 15,249 2025 18,652
Reading this trend NYPD complaint offence description. Cannabis-related complaints are a different label and are not added here.
These figures describe recorded police reports. Changes can reflect reporting, enforcement and definitions.
2026 partial: 9,384 police reports through 2026-06-30. Excluded from full-year comparisons.
New York Police Department · Source data ↗ 02 / Public health
Overdose deaths Deaths are a separate measure. Police counts do not measure overdose deaths or drug use.
Unintentional drug poisoning deaths 2,1922024 2016: 1,413 2017: 1,482 2018: 1,452 2019: 1,497 2020: 2,103 2021: 2,696 2022: 3,070 2023: 3,056 2024: 2,192 New York City
Unintentional drug poisoning deaths Last updated 2026-10-01 Reviewed dataset
Latest complete year · 2024 2,192 deaths
Year over year −28.3% 2023 → 2024
Change since 2016 +55.1% 2016 → 2024
deaths 2024 · 2,192 0 1.7K 3.4K 2016: 1,413 2017: 1,482 2018: 1,452 2019: 1,497 2020: 2,103 2021: 2,696 2022: 3,070 2023: 3,056 2024: 2,192 2016 2020 2024 View chart data Unintentional drug poisoning deaths · deaths · complete years Year Value 2016 1,413 2017 1,482 2018 1,452 2019 1,497 2020 2,103 2021 2,696 2022 3,070 2023 3,056 2024 2,192
Reading this trend Unintentional drug poisoning deaths in the five boroughs, ages 15 to 84, from the Office of Chief Medical Examiner and the Health Department. Suicide, homicide, and undetermined manner are excluded. 2023 and 2024 are provisional. A death can involve more than one drug, so drug-type counts are not shown.
These figures describe recorded deaths. Changes can reflect investigation, toxicology, and the definition used.
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · Source data ↗ Compare available death trends →
03 / Behind the numbers
Sources & coverage Last updated 2026-10-01 · accepted source review.
Complaint descriptions, not arrests and not deaths. Years in which a label has no complaints are omitted. There is no neighbourhood drug map. These measures are not added into a drug index or used to rank cities. There is no neighbourhood drug map. New York Police Department · NYPD Complaint Data Open source ↗ · Last updated 2026-10-01 (reviewed)
· NYC Open Data, Local Law 11 of 2012. Each year uses the historic or year-to-date file with the larger complaint count. The files are not added together.
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · Unintentional Drug Poisoning (Overdose) Deaths in New York City in 2024, Epi Data Brief No. 150 Open source ↗ · Last updated 2026-10-01 (reviewed)
New York City · City health report. Annual counts are the 2000–2024 figure in Epi Data Brief No. 150, October 2025. Attribute the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Office of Chief Medical Examiner.