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Public Safety Data & Indicators
DataHaven Indicators
For public safety indicators, please visit our indicators page at http://www.ctdatahaven.org/indicators.php. As we are developing a new system for visualizing this information, not all of our data sets have been uploaded here. Please contact us directly if you can't find what you need.
For the most recent general socioeconomic profile data on Connecticut towns and counties, please visit our page on Demographics. We have links here to the most recent profiles published by the Census Bureau.
Other Public Safety Data Resources
Statewide Resources
1. Connecticut Department of Public Safety: Crime in Connecticut. Uniform Crime Reports: Publications & Queriable Statistics: http://www.dir.ct.gov/dps/ucr/ucr.aspx
2. Connecticut Office of Policy & Management, Criminal Justice Policy & Planning Division: Research, Analysis & Evaluation http://www.ct.gov/opm/cwp/view.asp?A=2976&Q=384222 Site includes a monthly indicators report on Connecticut prison reentry and incarceration policies.
3. Comparative analyses of crime rates in Connecticut, U.S., and other Northeastern states from 1960 to present: http://www.ct.gov/opm/cwp/view.asp?a=2976&q=423768
4. DataHaven resources page on prison policy, criminal justice planning and prisoner reentry issues in Connecticut.
Connecticut Cities and Towns
1. Blue Review: New Haven Police Department Report, December 2009 File:Safety BlueReview NHPD Dec09.pdf
2. Crime Reports, 1990 to 2009, by UCR (FBI Uniform Crime Report) crime type. File:New Haven UCR BY YEAR-1990-2009.pdf
3. New Haven Safe Streets Coalition
4. New Haven Police Department
5. New Haven Prisoner Reentry Initiative
6. Creating a Healthy and Safe City: The Impact of Violence in New Haven (Document) File:Creating a Healthy and Safe City 2011 sml.pdf
Related National and Regional Resources
1. Online mapping of corrections and sentencing related data: The Justice Mapping Center recently launched the National Atlas of Sentencing and Corrections—an online tool that shows a neighborhood-level view of where prison inmates, probationers, and parolees are from and where corrections spending is highest. The atlas can be accessed at http://www.justiceatlas.org/ but does not currently show Connecticut data. However, the Justice Mapping Center's website at http://www.justicemapping.org/ has in its Project Gallery a January 2006 mapping data analysis of neighborhood-level data for New Haven.
2. High Cost of Crime, NYTimes, 10/8/10: How much do you think a single murder costs society? According to researchers at Iowa State University, it is a whopping $17.25 million. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/opinion/09blow.html . Link to original Iowa State release: http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2010/sep/costofcrime
3. "Income inequality and violent crime." (Equality Trust Research Digest 2011; no.1:pp.1-5) http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/resources/publications/research-digest-1-violent-crime-web There is near consensus within academia concerning the link between inequality and violent crime. Indeed, as seemingly small reductions in income inequality can lead to sizeable falls in violent crime, these findings have powerful policy implications. Crime reduction policies that ignore income inequality relinquish much of their potential impact on reducing homicide.
More Information
Our main Knowledge Center page about public safety in Connecticut may be found here.
