Index Crimes by County and Agency: Beginning 1990

The Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) collects crime reports from more than 500 New York State police and sheriffs' departments. DCJS compiles these reports as New York's official crime statistics and submits them to the FBI under the National Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. UCR uses standard offense definitions to count crime in localities across America regardless of variations in crime laws from state to state. In New York State, law enforcement agencies use the UCR system to report their monthly crime totals to DCJS. The UCR reporting system collects information on seven crimes classified as Index offenses which are most commonly used to gauge overall crime volume. These include the violent crimes of murder/non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault; and the property crimes of burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft. Police agencies may experience reporting problems that preclude accurate or complete reporting. The counts represent only crimes reported to the police but not total crimes that occurred. DCJS posts preliminary data in the spring and final data in the fall.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"ny-gov/index-crimes-by-county-and-agency-beginning-1990-ca8h-8gjq\".\"index_crimes_by_county_and_agency_beginning_1990\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.

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NotesNotesNot all agencies have complete reporting as indicated by the number of months reported ("Months reported" column). Due to a system conversion in 2002, number of months reported ("Months reported") is not available for any years prior to 2002. Some agencies became obsolete or were newly formed during the reporting period covered. Agencies may also experience reporting problems that can account for unusual changes in counts over time. Agencies may not have entries for each year due to incomplete reporting, no incidences of index crimes for a particular year or they were not an active agency in that year. DCJS posts preliminary data in the spring and final data in the fall.

Local DataCounty FilterYesCounty_Columncounty

DisclaimersLimitationsPolice agencies may experience reporting problems that preclude accurate or complete reporting. The counts represent only crimes reported to the police but not total crimes that occurred.

Dataset SummaryUnitsCrime Incident or VictimCoverageStatewide with exceptionsGranularityPolice DepartmentTime PeriodBeginning January 1990OrganizationOffice of Justice Research and PerformanceDataset OwnerOffice of Justice Research and PerformanceData FrequencyAnnuallyPosting FrequencyAnnuallyContact Informationdcjsstats@dcjs.ny.gov

Dataset InformationAgencyCriminal Justice Services, Division of

Additional ResourcesSee Alsohttp://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/crimnet/ojsa/indexcrimes/county_totals.htm

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