My research question focuses on how we can make the homicide rate go down in neighborhood like Bedford-Stuyvesant that belongs to the 81st precinct.

After collecting data from the FBI UCR, and the NYPD 81st precinct I was able to make a graph and show how the homicide rates in the United States and New York City measure next to each other.

The chart above shows data collected from 2001-2020. In the chart we can see how the homicide rate in NYC follows the U.S homicide trend. Starting in 2001 homicide trend in both the U.S and NYC decreased slightly and then around 2003 it went up again. From 2006 to 2016 the homicide trend decreased and increased every year and we never had a steady homicide trend. After 2016 the homicide trend the trend decreased again but in 2019 it went up by a lot, and it will keep increasing.

In the graph above it shows the homicide trend in the 81st precinct from 2001-2020. From 2001-2015 the homicide rate for the precinct chosen above it shows how the homicide rate was in a steady trend for a few years and then in 2019 it went below 0.69 and then it increased again.

The data shown will still leave us with some answered questions such as ” why is the homicide trend in NYC following the U.S trend in homicides and it is not following its own trend”.