Schenectady County had N.Y.’s highest crime rate in 2016
Sheriff: ‘In spite of the numbers, we are moving in the right direction’Emily Masters Published 2:13 pm, Friday, August 4, 2017
Schenectady County Sheriff Dom Dagostino announces the start up of a new County-wide Drug Unit run by the Sheriff's Department, to address the growing heroin epidemic that is impacting the county during a press conference held Sept. 30, 2015 in Schenectady, N.Y.
Schenectady County had the state's highest per capita crime rate last year, rising above Niagara, New York and Erie counties.
"In spite of the numbers," Schenectady County Sheriff Dominic Dagostino said Friday, "we are moving in the right direction in terms of the violent crime and the opioid epidemic."
While Schenectady County had 3,038 crimes per 100,000 residents in 2016 — as opposed to the state's average rate of 1,904 — crime there has dropped more than 16 percent in the last five years. Nearly a thousand fewer offenses were reported in 2016 than in 2012.
"But still," Dagostino said, the state data "jumps at you."
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