Editing Battery Park City (section)

==Police and crime==
Battery Park City and Lower Manhattan are patrolled by the 1st Precinct of the [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]], located at 16 Ericsson Place.<ref name="NYPD 1st Precinct">{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/1st-precinct.page|title=NYPD – 1st Precinct|website=www.nyc.gov|publisher=[[New York City Police Department]]|access-date=October 3, 2016|archive-date=May 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522213218/http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/1st-precinct.page|url-status=live}}</ref> The 1st Precinct ranked 63rd safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. Though the number of crimes is low compared to other NYPD precincts, the residential population is also much lower.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/crime-safety-report/manhattan/downtown/|title=Downtown: Battery Park, Financial District, SoHo, TriBeCa – DNAinfo.com Crime and Safety Report|website=www.dnainfo.com|access-date=October 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415051453/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/crime-safety-report/manhattan/downtown|archive-date=April 15, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> {{As of|2018}}, with a non-fatal assault rate of 24 per 100,000 people, Battery Park City and Lower Manhattan's rate of [[violent crime]]s per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 152 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole.<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|8}}

The 1st Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 86.3% between 1990 and 2018. The 1st precinct reported 2 murders, 15 rapes, 135 robberies, 121 felony assaults, 191 burglaries, 848 grand larcenies, and 68 grand larcenies auto in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Police Department City of New York - Historical Perspective - 2021 column |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-001pct.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-001pct.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live |accessdate=August 22, 2022}}</ref>