Three records of policing in the village, side by side: what the Croton Police Department reported for its most recent month, the department's own narrative blotter — which the village removes from its site after a month or two, and which we archive here — and every State Police incident logged inside Croton. All of it comes straight from the source, and this page updates as they do.
The department publishes a report every month over the Chief's signature. These are its own figures, in full — not a selection.
2,002 calls for service so far in 2026, January to May.
Source: Croton-on-Hudson Police Department monthly report, May 2026. Comparisons are with the same month a year earlier, so seasonal differences do not distort them.
For May 2026 — the most recent month with both records — the department logged 456 calls for service; its published blotter narrates 60 of them — about one call in 8. Of 17 persons arrested that month, the blotter describes 1 arrest; of 11 motor-vehicle accidents, it describes 7. That is the village's stated policy, not a discovery — each post says it is a selection — but the gap is worth seeing next to the full count.
Read the May weeks yourself: 2026-04-26 – 2026-05-02 · 2026-05-03 – 2026-05-09 · 2026-05-10 – 2026-05-16 · 2026-05-17 – 2026-05-23 · 2026-05-24 – 2026-05-30 · 2026-05-31 – 2026-06-06.
Blotter entries are counted by the date each incident occurred, so weeks that straddle a month boundary are split correctly. "Arrests described" counts blotter entries whose call type is an arrest; the monthly report counts persons arrested, so the two are close cousins, not identical units.
Each measure at its own scale, 2018 to today, from the department's monthly reports. Gaps are months the department did not publish — most of 2020 and early 2021, the COVID reporting gap — not zeros. The dot marks the latest month.
Source: Croton-on-Hudson Police Department monthly reports, October 2018 onward. The calls-for-service series is analysed in depth on the crime & policing page. Open in the explorer →
A second, independent count of motor-vehicle crashes: the DMV case file of reportable crashes inside the village filed by any police agency — including State Police stops on Routes 9 and 9A that never enter the village department's own numbers. It is a different universe from the "accidents" panel above: DMV counts only crashes meeting the state reporting threshold (injury, death, or significant damage with a filed report), while the department counts every accident call it responds to.
| Year | Property damage | Damage + injury | Injury | Fatal | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 135 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 165 |
| 2023 | 111 | 27 | 4 | 2 | 144 |
| 2022 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 28 |
| 2021 | 34 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 41 |
Source: NYS DMV, Motor Vehicle Crashes — Case Information (four-year window), municipality = Croton-on-Hudson; fetched 2026-07-26. The window rolls, so earlier years drop off as new ones arrive; year-over-year comparisons within the window are also affected by reporting lag in the newest year.
The department also publishes a narrative blotter: a weekly selection of incidents, in its own words. The village removes each post from its website after a month or two; we archive every one we capture, and this is the most recent. Its own preface: "a selection of incidents from the police blotter of the Croton-on-Hudson Police Department… does not constitute all calls received by the department during this period."
Source: Village of Croton-on-Hudson, posted 2026-07-21 — the blotter runs four to five weeks behind events. Narratives are reproduced verbatim; they are the department's own account and its own redaction. We hold 133 weekly posts / 5,288 incidents from 2020-10-12 to 2026-06-27 — browse the full archive.
Croton is in State Police Troop K, Zone 3. Troopers publish a complete report of their incidents every day, and this lists the ones that happened inside the village.
Source: New York State Police public information reports, Troop K Zone 3 (Cortlandt), filtered to location code 6021 — Village of Croton-on-Hudson. Holding 5 incidents.
We publish the incident, never the person. The state's reports print the names of drivers and arrestees; we discard every name. For an arrest we keep the age and home town — the ordinary blotter formulation, and far less than the state itself publishes. For a traffic collision we keep nothing about the people at all: being in a fender-bender is not news about a person. Charges are accusations, not convictions. The village's own blotter narratives above follow the department's redaction, which is the same practice.
Street names are the trooper's own free-text entry, which is often abbreviated — we expand it against local street names (OpenStreetMap) so "YORKTOWN" reads as Yorktown Road rather than the town of that name. Some roads run along the village boundary, so a street here may sit partly in Cortlandt; the village attribution is the state's own location code, not ours.
Felony prosecutions from the village are handled by the Westchester County District Attorney, which posts a Croton-relevant press release only a few times a year. Nothing has been posted in the last twelve months; the 8 most recent, going back through November 2018:
Titles are the District Attorney's own, which describe the case without naming the person — the DA's site carries the names; we don't reprint them. Charges are accusations, not convictions; several of these releases are the later plea or sentencing in the same case. We check the DA's listings weekly and flag new Croton items to the newsroom. Older cases where "Croton" appears only in the body of a release, not its title, are not captured.
Almost all policing in Croton is done by the Village department, not the State Police — troopers log roughly five incidents a week here, against the department's several hundred calls a month. The state list is timely and complete for what troopers handle; it is a small slice of what happens in the village.
The Village's narrative blotter is the department's own storytelling — vivid, but a selection running a month behind, and deleted from the village site soon after posting. The monthly totals above are the complete count. Read all three together and you have the fullest public picture of policing in Croton that exists anywhere.
What no public record shows. Westchester County Police patrol Croton Point Park — a county park inside the village — and publish no incident feed at all, so park incidents surface only if another agency logs them or the county issues a press release. County fire/EMS dispatch ("60 Control") exists only as scanner audio, which is unverified and names no outcomes — we do not use it. The County District Attorney's occasional Croton-relevant prosecutions are listed above, by the DA's own titles. Annual reported-crime statistics for Croton are on the crime & policing page.
This page updates daily. State Police reports cover a rolling seven days and are overwritten weekly, so incidents are captured as they appear and kept here afterwards; village blotter posts are captured weekly before the village removes them. Spotted an error? Tell us.