Posts Tagged ‘risk’
New York City Crime Risk:-Is the crime rate in New York City really going down?
December 30, 2014
Table 1, which has been produced by NYPD CompStat and portrays the number of reported felonies in the past decade, depicts an overall drop from 184,652 to 106,669, indicating that the number of reported felonies in New York City has nearly halved itself in the ten-year span. However, an analysis of crime data involves the […]
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Unemployment and Risk of Death- Assessing a Causal Relationship in New York City
December 30, 2014
Our research considers the assessment of claims that there is a direct and positive causal relationship between the unemployment rate and mortality rate, overall, in New York City. We examined mortality data, but also incorporated some illness data. The main data sets include the unemployment rate in New York County, NY from late 1900s to […]
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The Misconception Of Misdemeanor Crimes In New York
December 30, 2014
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 […]
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Examining Risk: Fire, Death, and Underlying Factors
December 22, 2014
The general population tends to blame the Fire Department of New York (FDNY)‘s response times as the primary reason for injury and death in New York City fires (Guart). Using data from FDNY Vital Statistics, arguments made by Dr. Scott Gabriel Knowles in his book The Disaster Experts, and public opinion as represented in newspaper […]
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Risk of the Improper Frisk
December 17, 2014
Stop, Question and Frisk (SQF) policing strategies have been placed under great scrutiny for the appearance of racial profiling by police in New York City. Antagonists of Stop, Question and Frisk declare SQF an ineffective and improper policing tactic that should be removed from the NYPD’s agenda. However, data suggests that it is not the […]
