Conclusions:
1. Overall crime rate per 1000 people in NYC is higher than the crime rate in the rest of NY state
2. Violent crime rate per 1000 people in NYC is higher than the crime rate in the rest of NY state
1 and 2 were as expected
3. The overall crime rate in NYC has reduced considerably since 1990. This was kind of a remarkable result given that there is a lot of debate about it in the media. It was good to do this fact check
4. The crime rate could be predicted with a test R-squared of 78.7% with just 3 basic variables. This prediction might not work for too many years beyond 2016, but will work for 1990-2016 and could work for 2017/2018.