Hate Crimes in NY from 2010-2016
Jeremy Yee
9/19/2021
Hate Crimes Dataset This dataset looks at all types of hate crimes in New York counties by the type of hate crime from 2010 to 2016.
My caveat:
Flawed hate crime data collection - we should know how the data was collected (Nathan Yau of Flowing Data, Dec 5, 2017)
Data can provide you with important information, but when the collection process is flawed, there’s not much you can do. Ken Schwencke, reporting for ProPublica, researched the tiered system that the FBI relies on to gather hate crime data for the United States:
“Under a federal law passed in 1990, the FBI is required to track and tabulate crimes in which there was ‘manifest evidence of prejudice’ against a host of protected groups, regardless of differences in how state laws define who’s protected. The FBI, in turn, relies on local law enforcement agencies to collect and submit this data, but can’t compel them to do so.”
This is a link to the ProPublica Article: https://www.propublica.org/article/why-america-fails-at-gathering-hate-crime-statistics
Here is a data visualization of where hate crimes do NOT get reported around the country (Ken Schwencke, 2017): https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/hatecrime-map
#tidyverse::install_tidyverse()
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library(tinytex)setwd("C:/Users/Jerem/OneDrive/Documents")
hatecrimes <- read_csv("Montgomery College/Fall 2021/DATA 110/Datasets/hateCrimes2010.csv")## Rows: 423 Columns: 44## -- Column specification --------------------------------------------------------
## Delimiter: ","
## chr (2): County, Crime Type
## dbl (42): Year, Anti-Male, Anti-Female, Anti-Transgender, Anti-Gender Identi...##
## i Use `spec()` to retrieve the full column specification for this data.
## i Specify the column types or set `show_col_types = FALSE` to quiet this message.Cleaning up Data
Making all headers lowercase and remove spaces
names(hatecrimes) <- tolower(names(hatecrimes))
names(hatecrimes) <- gsub("","", names(hatecrimes))
str(hatecrimes)## spec_tbl_df [423 x 44] (S3: spec_tbl_df/tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
## $ county : chr [1:423] "Albany" "Albany" "Allegany" "Bronx" ...
## $ year : num [1:423] 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 ...
## $ crime type : chr [1:423] "Crimes Against Persons" "Property Crimes" "Property Crimes" "Crimes Against Persons" ...
## $ anti-male : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-female : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-transgender : num [1:423] 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-gender identity expression : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-age* : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-white : num [1:423] 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-black : num [1:423] 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 ...
## $ anti-american indian/alaskan native : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-asian : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-native hawaiian/pacific islander : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-multi-racial groups : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-other race : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-jewish : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-catholic : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-protestant : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-islamic (muslim) : num [1:423] 1 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 1 0 ...
## $ anti-multi-religious groups : num [1:423] 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-atheism/agnosticism : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-religious practice generally : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-other religion : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-buddhist : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-eastern orthodox (greek, russian, etc.): num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-hindu : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-jehovahs witness : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-mormon : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-other christian : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-sikh : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-hispanic : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-arab : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-other ethnicity/national origin : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-non-hispanic* : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-gay male : num [1:423] 1 0 0 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-gay female : num [1:423] 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-gay (male and female) : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-heterosexual : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-bisexual : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-physical disability : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ anti-mental disability : num [1:423] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ total incidents : num [1:423] 3 3 1 20 2 3 1 1 1 2 ...
## $ total victims : num [1:423] 4 3 1 20 2 3 1 1 1 2 ...
## $ total offenders : num [1:423] 3 3 1 25 2 3 1 1 1 2 ...
## - attr(*, "spec")=
## .. cols(
## .. County = col_character(),
## .. Year = col_double(),
## .. `Crime Type` = col_character(),
## .. `Anti-Male` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Female` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Transgender` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Gender Identity Expression` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Age*` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-White` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Black` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Asian` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Multi-Racial Groups` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Other Race` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Jewish` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Catholic` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Protestant` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Islamic (Muslim)` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Multi-Religious Groups` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Religious Practice Generally` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Other Religion` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Buddhist` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Eastern Orthodox (Greek, Russian, etc.)` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Hindu` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Jehovahs Witness` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Mormon` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Other Christian` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Sikh` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Hispanic` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Arab` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Other Ethnicity/National Origin` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Non-Hispanic*` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Gay Male` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Gay Female` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Gay (Male and Female)` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Heterosexual` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Bisexual` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Physical Disability` = col_double(),
## .. `Anti-Mental Disability` = col_double(),
## .. `Total Incidents` = col_double(),
## .. `Total Victims` = col_double(),
## .. `Total Offenders` = col_double()
## .. )
## - attr(*, "problems")=<externalptr>Select only certain hate-crimes
The data selected based on the hate-crime type with a max number of 9 or more. By selecting the max number of 9 or more allows the audience to focus on the most prominent types of hate-crimes.
hatecrimes2 <- hatecrimes %>%
select(county, year, `anti-black`, 'anti-white', `anti-jewish`, 'anti-catholic','anti-age*','anti-islamic (muslim)', 'anti-gay male', 'anti-hispanic') %>%
group_by(county, year)
head(hatecrimes2)## # A tibble: 6 x 10
## # Groups: county, year [4]
## county year `anti-black` `anti-white` `anti-jewish` `anti-catholic`
## <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 Albany 2016 1 0 0 0
## 2 Albany 2016 2 0 0 0
## 3 Allegany 2016 1 0 0 0
## 4 Bronx 2016 0 1 0 0
## 5 Bronx 2016 0 1 1 0
## 6 Broome 2016 1 0 0 0
## # ... with 4 more variables: anti-age* <dbl>, anti-islamic (muslim) <dbl>,
## # anti-gay male <dbl>, anti-hispanic <dbl>Checking the dimensions and the summary to make sure there is no missing data values
dim(hatecrimes2)## [1] 423 10summary(hatecrimes2)## county year anti-black anti-white
## Length:423 Min. :2010 Min. : 0.000 Min. : 0.0000
## Class :character 1st Qu.:2011 1st Qu.: 0.000 1st Qu.: 0.0000
## Mode :character Median :2013 Median : 1.000 Median : 0.0000
## Mean :2013 Mean : 1.761 Mean : 0.3357
## 3rd Qu.:2015 3rd Qu.: 2.000 3rd Qu.: 0.0000
## Max. :2016 Max. :18.000 Max. :11.0000
## anti-jewish anti-catholic anti-age* anti-islamic (muslim)
## Min. : 0.000 Min. : 0.0000 Min. :0.00000 Min. : 0.0000
## 1st Qu.: 0.000 1st Qu.: 0.0000 1st Qu.:0.00000 1st Qu.: 0.0000
## Median : 0.000 Median : 0.0000 Median :0.00000 Median : 0.0000
## Mean : 3.981 Mean : 0.2695 Mean :0.05201 Mean : 0.4704
## 3rd Qu.: 3.000 3rd Qu.: 0.0000 3rd Qu.:0.00000 3rd Qu.: 0.0000
## Max. :82.000 Max. :12.0000 Max. :9.00000 Max. :10.0000
## anti-gay male anti-hispanic
## Min. : 0.000 Min. : 0.0000
## 1st Qu.: 0.000 1st Qu.: 0.0000
## Median : 0.000 Median : 0.0000
## Mean : 1.499 Mean : 0.3735
## 3rd Qu.: 1.000 3rd Qu.: 0.0000
## Max. :36.000 Max. :17.0000Use Facet_Wrap
hatecrimeslong <- hatecrimes2 %>%
tidyr::gather("id", "crimecount", 3:10)
hatecrimesplot <- hatecrimeslong %>%
ggplot(., aes(year, crimecount)) +
geom_point() +
aes(color = id) +
facet_wrap(~id)
hatecrimesplot
Look Deeper into crimes againest blacks, Males, and Jews
hatenew <- hatecrimeslong %>%
filter(id == "anti-black" | id == "anti-gay male" | id == "anti-jewish") %>%
group_by(year, county) %>%
arrange(desc(crimecount))
hatenew## # A tibble: 1,269 x 4
## # Groups: year, county [277]
## county year id crimecount
## <chr> <dbl> <chr> <dbl>
## 1 Kings 2012 anti-jewish 82
## 2 Kings 2016 anti-jewish 51
## 3 Suffolk 2014 anti-jewish 48
## 4 Suffolk 2012 anti-jewish 48
## 5 Kings 2011 anti-jewish 44
## 6 Kings 2013 anti-jewish 41
## 7 Kings 2010 anti-jewish 39
## 8 Nassau 2011 anti-jewish 38
## 9 Suffolk 2013 anti-jewish 37
## 10 Nassau 2016 anti-jewish 36
## # ... with 1,259 more rowsPlot these three types of hate crime together
plot2 <- hatenew %>%
ggplot() +
geom_bar(aes(x = year, y = crimecount, fill =id), position = "dodge", stat = "identity") +
ggtitle("Hate Crime Type in NY Counties Between 2010-2016") +
ylab("Number of Hate Crime Incidents") +
labs(fill = "Hate Crime Type")
plot2
Based on this graph, the hate crimes againest jews spiked in 2012. All other years were relatively consistent with a slight upward trend. There was also an upward trend in hate crimes againest gay males, Finally, there appears to be a downward trend in hate crimes againest blacks during this period.
Counties
plot3 <- hatenew %>%
ggplot() +
geom_bar(aes(x = county, y = crimecount, fill = id), position = "dodge", stat = "identity") +
ggtitle("Hate Crimes Type in NY Counties Between 2010-2016") +
ylab("Number of Hate Crime Incidents") +
labs(fill = "Hate Crime Type")
plot3
Reducing amount of counties
This will allow the audiance to read the graph.
counties <- hatenew %>%
group_by(county, year) %>%
summarize(sum = sum(crimecount)) %>%
arrange(desc(sum))## `summarise()` has grouped output by 'county'. You can override using the `.groups` argument.counties## # A tibble: 277 x 3
## # Groups: county [60]
## county year sum
## <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 Kings 2012 136
## 2 Kings 2010 110
## 3 Kings 2016 101
## 4 Kings 2013 96
## 5 Kings 2014 94
## 6 Kings 2015 90
## 7 Kings 2011 86
## 8 New York 2016 86
## 9 Suffolk 2012 83
## 10 New York 2013 75
## # ... with 267 more rowsplot4 <- hatenew %>%
filter(county == "king" | county == "New York" | county == "Suffolk" | county == "Nassau" | county == "Queens") %>%
ggplot() +
geom_bar(aes(x = county, y = crimecount, fill = id), position = "dodge", stat = "identity") +
labs(ylab = "Number of Hate Crime Incidents",
title = "5 Countires IN NE with Highest Incidents of Hate Crimes",
subtitle = "Between 2010-2016",
fill = "Hate Crime Type")
plot4
setwd("C:/Users/Jerem/OneDrive/Documents")
nypop <- read_csv("Montgomery College/Fall 2021/DATA 110/Datasets/newyorkpopulation.csv")## Rows: 62 Columns: 8## -- Column specification --------------------------------------------------------
## Delimiter: ","
## chr (1): Geography
## dbl (7): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016##
## i Use `spec()` to retrieve the full column specification for this data.
## i Specify the column types or set `show_col_types = FALSE` to quiet this message.Clean the county name to match the other dataset
Rename the variable “Geography” as “county” so that it matches in the other dataset.
nypop$Geography <- gsub(" , New York", "", nypop$Geography)
nypop$Geography <- gsub("County", "", nypop$Geography)
nypoplong <- nypop %>%
rename(county = Geography) %>%
gather("year", "population", 2:8)
nypoplong$year <- as.double(nypoplong$year)
head(nypoplong)## # A tibble: 6 x 3
## county year population
## <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 Albany , New York 2010 304078
## 2 Allegany , New York 2010 48949
## 3 Bronx , New York 2010 1388240
## 4 Broome , New York 2010 200469
## 5 Cattaraugus , New York 2010 80249
## 6 Cayuga , New York 2010 79844Focusing on 2012
Since 2012 had the highest counts of hate crimes, let’s look at the populations of the counties in 2012. Clean the nypoplong12 variable, county, so that matches the counties12 variable by Cutting off the “, New York” portion of the county listing
nypoplong12 <- nypoplong %>%
filter(year == 2012) %>%
arrange(desc(population)) %>%
head(10)
nypoplong12$county <- gsub(" , New York", "", nypoplong12$county)
nypoplong12## # A tibble: 10 x 3
## county year population
## <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 Kings 2012 2572282
## 2 Queens 2012 2278024
## 3 New York 2012 1625121
## 4 Suffolk 2012 1499382
## 5 Bronx 2012 1414774
## 6 Nassau 2012 1350748
## 7 Westchester 2012 961073
## 8 Erie 2012 920792
## 9 Monroe 2012 748947
## 10 Richmond 2012 470978Not surprisingly, 4/5 of the counties with the highest populations also were listed in the counties with the highest number of hate crimes. Only the Bronx, which has the fifth highest population is not in the list with the highest number of total hate crimes over the period from 2010 to 2016.
Recall the total hate crime counts: Kings 713 New York 459 Suffolk 360 Nassau 298 Queens 235
Filter hate crimes just for 2012 as well
countries12 <- counties %>%
filter(year == 2012) %>%
arrange(desc(sum))
countries12## # A tibble: 41 x 3
## # Groups: county [41]
## county year sum
## <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 Kings 2012 136
## 2 Suffolk 2012 83
## 3 New York 2012 71
## 4 Nassau 2012 48
## 5 Queens 2012 48
## 6 Erie 2012 28
## 7 Bronx 2012 23
## 8 Richmond 2012 18
## 9 Multiple 2012 14
## 10 Westchester 2012 13
## # ... with 31 more rowsJoin the Hate Crimes data with NY Population Data for 2012
datajoin <- countries12 %>%
full_join(nypoplong12, by = c("county", "year"))
datajoin## # A tibble: 41 x 4
## # Groups: county [41]
## county year sum population
## <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 Kings 2012 136 2572282
## 2 Suffolk 2012 83 1499382
## 3 New York 2012 71 1625121
## 4 Nassau 2012 48 1350748
## 5 Queens 2012 48 2278024
## 6 Erie 2012 28 920792
## 7 Bronx 2012 23 1414774
## 8 Richmond 2012 18 470978
## 9 Multiple 2012 14 NA
## 10 Westchester 2012 13 961073
## # ... with 31 more rowsCalcuate the rate of incidents per 100,000. Then arrange in descending order
datajoinrate <- datajoin %>%
mutate(rate = sum/population*100000) %>%
arrange(desc(rate))
datajoinrate## # A tibble: 41 x 5
## # Groups: county [41]
## county year sum population rate
## <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 Suffolk 2012 83 1499382 5.54
## 2 Kings 2012 136 2572282 5.29
## 3 New York 2012 71 1625121 4.37
## 4 Richmond 2012 18 470978 3.82
## 5 Nassau 2012 48 1350748 3.55
## 6 Erie 2012 28 920792 3.04
## 7 Queens 2012 48 2278024 2.11
## 8 Bronx 2012 23 1414774 1.63
## 9 Westchester 2012 13 961073 1.35
## 10 Monroe 2012 5 748947 0.668
## # ... with 31 more rowsNotice that the highest rates of hate crimes in 2012 happened in:
dt <- datajoinrate[,c("county", "rate")]
dt## # A tibble: 41 x 2
## # Groups: county [41]
## county rate
## <chr> <dbl>
## 1 Suffolk 5.54
## 2 Kings 5.29
## 3 New York 4.37
## 4 Richmond 3.82
## 5 Nassau 3.55
## 6 Erie 3.04
## 7 Queens 2.11
## 8 Bronx 1.63
## 9 Westchester 1.35
## 10 Monroe 0.668
## # ... with 31 more rowsBut the highest populated counties were: Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, New York, Suffolk (Long Island), Bronx, and Nassau. They do not correspond directly, though they are similar, to the counties with highest rates of hate crimes.
Important Findings: 1. I wonder what the data would look like if there was a universally accepted requirement for this type of data collection.
The Bronx appears to have much lower than expected incidents of hate crimes relative to its population density in comparison to other NY counties.
In Kings County, NY (which is home to Brooklyn; according to Wikipedia, it is New York’s most populous borough and the second most densly populated county in the US) in 2012, there was a spike in hate crimes against jews.
All of these findings are corroborated in Hate Crime in New York State 2012 Annual Report: https://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/crimnet/ojsa/hate-crime-in-nys-2012-annual-report.pdf
Homework Paragraph
The positive aspect of this dataset is that it includes many variables that allow me and others to compare hate crimes across counties. With the wide spectrum of data, it may potentially lead to informative and thorough reports. The negative aspect of this dataset is that it’s a flawed dataset. The raw data was collected incompletely causing the data to be cleaned and reformatted. Also, the dataset doesn’t give the population of these counties therefore it’s not a true representation of the whole population of differences in hate crime between the different New York counties.
Two paths I would like to (hypothetically) study about this dataset are hate crimes against the LGBTQ community and non-LGBTQ. One of my best friends is part of the LGBTQ community and I would want to see if there is a correlation between being LGBTQ and how it will affect the rate of hate crimes. I would follow up by comparing this dataset to other cities and counties datasets and see which cities and counties are more accepting of the LGBTQ community and what laws or organized events are implemented for them.