Arrests in NYC are not just male-dominated; they are overwhelmingly concentrated among men aged 25–44. This pattern held steady for six consecutive months.
Evidence:
· 82% of all arrests were men (>8 in 10).
· Within that, men aged 25–44 accounted for 58% of all arrests (nearly 3 in 5).
· Monthly trends showed no significant fluctuation—both the gender and age-group proportions remained stable from January through June 2025.
Implication:
This isn’t a monthly anomaly—it’s a persistent demographic reality. Any discussion of arrest patterns in NYC must start with this concentration.
Makes sense. We do a lot more dumb shit than women
Would be interesting to see a breakdown of charges too. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a clear difference in the charges that led to these arrests between the genders.
I’d be interested in areas where arrest rates are even close 2:1 let alone 1:1.
I remember Dr Drew saying something along the lines of ‘If you want to eliminate crime, just lock up every male under 40’.
Man, women need to step up their game.
In Poland conviction stats are similar. ~90% of all convicts are men.
Edit: added percent sign
And you want to have kids?
*not all men but overwhelmingly male*
This is because the police target men with arrests right? No other reason surely. I’m sure other correlations haven’t been found
Clearly a selection bias, women just aren’t arrested as frequently.
Viz feedback:
* I’d be curious what something like a 7-day rolling average would look like. Would smooth out the weekend vs. weekday spikes.
* The teal and cyan colors are very similar, especially in the legend. Recommend thickening the lines in the legend and/or choosing more distinct colors. Similar situation with <18 and 65+ (and why are just the oldest and youngest groups orange? Could use a more continuous color scale since we’re dealing with a range of numbers.)
* Remove the July axis label if the data only goes through the end of June.
* Purely opinion, but avoid using AI to generate short summaries like the one in your comment. When something reads like chatGPT as this does, I question if the code behind the viz is handling the data accurately.
* Your age brackets vary significantly. “Men aged 25-44 were the most arrested group every single month” is a bit of a wonky thing to claim when the bracket lower than it is 18-24 (7 year range vs. 20). If you looked at *per capita* rates, the 18-24 bracket would be much closer to the 25-44 one.
I know it’s not the lead story, but the gap between women 25-44 and all other women is pretty shocking too.
Now let’s see the arrest rates for bears
The 25-44 age bracket has 20 years inside and the 18-24 has only 7.
Makes no sense to put it together unless you make it a per capita rate, using totals distorts this into thinking that 40 year olds get arrested more than 20 year olds.
Always have been, everywhere.
Now do florida and I bet its more women
Honestly, I’m pretty surprised that the percentage is *only 82%.* I would have guessed something close to 90%.
Clearly we need to deport men back to Mars.
Isn’t this pretty similar to everywhere in the world, not just NYC?
The systemic sexism is unbelievable and we need to lock up women to remove inequality.
Yes, criminals in general are overwhelmingly male.
Watch a few hundred hours of body cam police footage, and you will see why. Young men are actively targeted by police. Women have to be acting out 10x more than men to even risk being handcuffed, much less arrested. I’d love to see stats that go to trial or are convicted, and I bet they would be much closer to the same. Most of the time the male side of the interaction is harassed until they get upset, and then they are arrested for some BS charge like public disturbance, and then they go looking for a real charge by searching them, their car, etc. If they don’t find anything, the charge will almost certainly be dropped. They will most certainly arrest anyone fairly if they are actively breaking the law, but consensual engagements are 99% men, and they are just looking for an arrest.
Despite being the 50% of the population…
Quick, add racial demographics, and you’ll see it’s even more concentrated within a smaller group of men. But be careful, we’re not supposed to talk about all statistics, just the statistics that don’t make people uncomfortable.
Now let’s see it by race. Bonus points if you normalize by percentage of population.
Now show the per race graphics, im sure it’s those East asians again
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Finding:
Arrests in NYC are not just male-dominated; they are overwhelmingly concentrated among men aged 25–44. This pattern held steady for six consecutive months.
Evidence:
· 82% of all arrests were men (>8 in 10).
· Within that, men aged 25–44 accounted for 58% of all arrests (nearly 3 in 5).
· Monthly trends showed no significant fluctuation—both the gender and age-group proportions remained stable from January through June 2025.
Implication:
This isn’t a monthly anomaly—it’s a persistent demographic reality. Any discussion of arrest patterns in NYC must start with this concentration.
Makes sense. We do a lot more dumb shit than women
Would be interesting to see a breakdown of charges too. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a clear difference in the charges that led to these arrests between the genders.
I’d be interested in areas where arrest rates are even close 2:1 let alone 1:1.
I remember Dr Drew saying something along the lines of ‘If you want to eliminate crime, just lock up every male under 40’.
Man, women need to step up their game.
In Poland conviction stats are similar. ~90% of all convicts are men.
Edit: added percent sign
And you want to have kids?
*not all men but overwhelmingly male*
This is because the police target men with arrests right? No other reason surely. I’m sure other correlations haven’t been found
Clearly a selection bias, women just aren’t arrested as frequently.
Viz feedback:
* I’d be curious what something like a 7-day rolling average would look like. Would smooth out the weekend vs. weekday spikes.
* The teal and cyan colors are very similar, especially in the legend. Recommend thickening the lines in the legend and/or choosing more distinct colors. Similar situation with <18 and 65+ (and why are just the oldest and youngest groups orange? Could use a more continuous color scale since we’re dealing with a range of numbers.)
* Remove the July axis label if the data only goes through the end of June.
* Purely opinion, but avoid using AI to generate short summaries like the one in your comment. When something reads like chatGPT as this does, I question if the code behind the viz is handling the data accurately.
* Your age brackets vary significantly. “Men aged 25-44 were the most arrested group every single month” is a bit of a wonky thing to claim when the bracket lower than it is 18-24 (7 year range vs. 20). If you looked at *per capita* rates, the 18-24 bracket would be much closer to the 25-44 one.
I know it’s not the lead story, but the gap between women 25-44 and all other women is pretty shocking too.
Now let’s see the arrest rates for bears
The 25-44 age bracket has 20 years inside and the 18-24 has only 7.
Makes no sense to put it together unless you make it a per capita rate, using totals distorts this into thinking that 40 year olds get arrested more than 20 year olds.
Always have been, everywhere.
Now do florida and I bet its more women
Honestly, I’m pretty surprised that the percentage is *only 82%.* I would have guessed something close to 90%.
Clearly we need to deport men back to Mars.
Isn’t this pretty similar to everywhere in the world, not just NYC?
The systemic sexism is unbelievable and we need to lock up women to remove inequality.
Yes, criminals in general are overwhelmingly male.
Watch a few hundred hours of body cam police footage, and you will see why. Young men are actively targeted by police. Women have to be acting out 10x more than men to even risk being handcuffed, much less arrested. I’d love to see stats that go to trial or are convicted, and I bet they would be much closer to the same. Most of the time the male side of the interaction is harassed until they get upset, and then they are arrested for some BS charge like public disturbance, and then they go looking for a real charge by searching them, their car, etc. If they don’t find anything, the charge will almost certainly be dropped. They will most certainly arrest anyone fairly if they are actively breaking the law, but consensual engagements are 99% men, and they are just looking for an arrest.
Despite being the 50% of the population…
Quick, add racial demographics, and you’ll see it’s even more concentrated within a smaller group of men. But be careful, we’re not supposed to talk about all statistics, just the statistics that don’t make people uncomfortable.
Now let’s see it by race. Bonus points if you normalize by percentage of population.
Now show the per race graphics, im sure it’s those East asians again
Is this evidence of systemic oppression of men?
Damn sexist cops! I’m oppressed!
…or maybe men just commit more crime.
men do commit most crimes so…
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