Introduction:
Crime rates is a very import concern for any state or city. I was interested in understanding if it is factual to assume that crime rate is higher in cities. Also, there is a lot of debate in the media on whether the crime rate in cities is increasing or going down. I limited my study here to NY state and NYC but it can be expanded in scope to include more cities/states. There are multiple articles
Following are the questions I tried to answer through this study:
  1. Is the crime rate higher in New York City compared to the rest of the state?
  2. Is the rate of violent crimes higher in NYC compared to the rest of the state?
  3. Has there been an increase or decrease in the overall crime rate in NYC since 1990?
  4. How well can we predict the overall crime rate in NYC with year, population and County as the variables?