Violent Crime Rates

  This map above takes social data focusing on violent crime rates influenced by population in each county in New York State.  Violent crimes are more frequent in higher population concentrations with higher density.  The colors seen above represent different levels of violent crime.  In order from lowest to highest crime rates; green, yellow, purple, and red.  Green obviously represents the lowest crime rates as red represents the highest crime rates.  When viewing the map, its easy to point out which areas of the state represent higher population density's.  The Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, and New York City region produce the highest levels of crime.  The more rural areas such as the North Country and the Adirondacks display much lower crime rates due to the smaller populations located in those represented counties.  This map represents more counties with lower crime rates under 250 then above, which on a positive note, keep many counties out of the crime system.  Plattsburgh (Clinton County) has a very low crime rate when compared to many other counties, which supports reason to say that the college atmosphere and environment surrounding it is a relatively safe place to attend school, when compared to another SUNY college such as SUNY Albany, located in a high crime rate county.  The reason cities produce higher crime rates is easy to explain, simply because the more people you have in a given area that are diverse in race and also socio-economic status produces more crime.  The more people in a given area, more crime is produced in that area.

criminaljustice.ny.gov This data is provided by the Criminal Justice Services. It breaks down crime counts and rates by counties in New York State. It speciffically displays violent crimes (counts and rates) and violent crimes involving a firearm (counts and rates) broken up by counties. The data is useful for displaying violent crime rates and how the rates per capita are affected.  The website is organized in a very clear and easy to follow set up.  The criminal justice website offers a wide range of social data to help meet any data search requirement in the social field.