Editing Chinatown, Manhattan (section)

==Police and crime==
Chinatown is patrolled by the 5th Precinct of the [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]], located at 19 Elizabeth Street.<ref name="NYPD 5th Precinct">{{Cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/5th-precinct.page |title=NYPD – 5th Precinct |website=www.nyc.gov |publisher=[[New York City Police Department]] |access-date=October 3, 2016 |archive-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111213227/https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/5th-precinct.page |url-status=live }}</ref> The 5th Precinct and the adjacent 7th Precinct ranked 58th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/crime-safety-report/manhattan/east-village/ |title=East Village and Alphabet City – DNAinfo.com Crime and Safety Report |website=www.dnainfo.com |access-date=October 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415065249/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/crime-safety-report/manhattan/east-village |archive-date=April 15, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> {{As of|2018}}, with a non-fatal assault rate of 42 per 100,000 people, Chinatown and the Lower East Side's rate of [[violent crime]]s per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 449 per 100,000 people is higher than that of the city as a whole.<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|8}}

The 5th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories that have decreased by 77.1% between 1990 and 2019. The precinct reported 6 murders, 14 rapes, 91 robberies, 210 felony assaults, 101 burglaries, 585 grand larcenies, and 16 grand larcenies auto in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-005pct.pdf |title=5th Precinct CompStat Report |website=www.nyc.gov |publisher=[[New York City Police Department]] |access-date=March 22, 2020 |archive-date=October 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022125038/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-005pct.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>