Bronx Councilman Fernando Cabrera’s proposed legislation to make detailed crime statistics more widely available, which has evolved since its inception nearly two years ago to take advantage of new mapping technology, is getting close to making it onto the floor for a vote.

Earlier this month, the City Council held its first hearing on Cabrera’s legislation, which was inspired by reporting and editorials by the Norwood News about the availability of neighborhood crime statistics, commonly known as “sector stats.”

While the police department regularly publishes precinct-wide crime statistics, it also produces more detailed statistics, which it doesn’t make public, that apply to each sector, or neighborhood, within each precinct.

Originally, Cabrera’s legislation required the NYPD to provide the sector stats to each community board on a regular, periodic basis. But Cabrera felt that methodology might create a “bottleneck” at the community board.

Besides, he says now, “we have the technology to do something better and make everything public information.”

Cabrera’s new proposal would require the Department of Information Technology to create an interactive map that would display crime complaints down to the street where the crime occurred. This way, anybody in the city could see how many and what types of crimes are occurring on their own block. Similar maps have been created in cities like Baltimore and Chicago.

At the hearing, representatives from the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) said the technology would be relatively easy to create — they have done essentially the same thing for 311 complaints — it would just be a matter of getting hold of the data. The DoITT reps said the NYPD already inputs the information into a computer. They would just need to store it in a “data warehouse” where DoITT could access it.

The NYPD, which didn’t appear at the hearing and is notoriously cagey with information, is neutral on the plan, Cabrera says. Paul Browne, the NYPD’s chief spokesperson, did not return requests for comment.

“It’s all about being able to target our resources more efficiently,” Cabrera says. The NYPD uses these stats, he says. So should elected officials, nonprofits and other agencies.