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:
- Is the crime rate higher in New York City compared to the rest of the state?
- Is the rate of violent crimes higher in NYC compared to the rest of the state?
- Has there been an increase or decrease in the overall crime rate in NYC since 1990?
- How well can we predict the overall crime rate in NYC with year, population and County as the variables?