New York State classifies crimes such as murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny, and grand larceny of a motor vehicle as “major felonies.” These seven major felony offenses result in more severe punishments than non-major felonies and misdemeanors. The data set creates a façade that crime in New York is decreasing because of the decrease in these major felonies when in reality, several misdemeanors are increasing drastically. The historical crime data is from opendata.gov, released by the NYPD presumably in an effort to show a crime decrease. While the NYPD attempts to portray a safer city than in past years, recidivist data demonstrates that there are other factors to whether or not New York is safer. We look at the misconception of crime in New York based on the data sets on the increase in criminal misdemeanors, the sentences that accompany them, and the likelihood of the criminals to commit crimes again.
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/seminar3posters/files/gravity_forms/1-f14ea90e75361cb91bd42582a860ee01/2014/12/The-Misconception-Of-Misdemeanor-Crimes-In-New-York.pdf
Brittany Cabanas, Tom Viskoc
David Munns, Kevin Ambrose
John Jay College
misdemeanor, crime, risk
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