Day: February 3, 2016💾

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October – December 2015 Albany Crime Statistics Breakdown

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Albany does not release crime statistics by Ward. By they do release a 90 day report of all Unified Crime Reporting system and Election Districts are public data. Join them together, and you got Crimes by Ward in Albany.

Albany provides a 3-month snapshot of crime statistics every few months. I thought it would be interesting to geocode the crime statistics and then compare against the Election District and Ward lines. For your reference, you can see this map to find specific Wards and EDs in the city.

The top wards for crime in fall 2015 where Wards 3, 12 and 2. The least number of crimes occurred in Wards 15 and 14.

Ward Aggravated Assualt Burglary Larceny Motor Vehicle Larceny Rape Robbery Total
1 11 15 40 4 5 75
2 20 13 69 3 1 7 113
3 20 20 91 2 2 9 144
4 7 9 42 4 6 68
5 22 11 42 6 11 92
6 6 4 65 10 85
7 4 2 43 2 1 1 53
8 2 14 16
9 3 4 22 3 1 33
10 7 10 56 3 4 80
11 17 9 68 4 1 11 110
12 1 5 114 4 1 125
13 3 3 54 1 1 62
14 2 5 16 1 24
15 1 6 1 8
Total 124 112 742 37 5 68 1088

Crimes happened in different locations in each ward, although multiple dwellings followed by the street is the most common place where crimes occur in Albany.

Ward 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Total 
Amusement Center 1 1
Auto Sales Lot 1 2 3
Auto Shop 2 3 4 1 1 11
Bar 3 1 5 2 1 12
Barber Beauty Shop 1 1
Church 1 2 1 3 7
Clothing Store 1 1 1 3
College 1 5 2 8
Department Discount 1 1 1 1 1 22 27
Doctors Office 1 1 2
Drug Store 2 6 3 1 3 15
Dry Cleaners Laundry 1 1 1 1 4
Field Woods 1 1
Financial Institutio 1 2 1 1 5
Garage Shed 1 1 1 1 4
Gas Station 2 1 1 3 1 1 9
Government Office 1 3 1 5
Grocery Supermarket 2 2 5 1 1 41 5 57
Hospital 12 1 7 20
Hotel Motel 4 3 3 2 12
Jail Prison 1 1
Jewelery Store 1 1
Liquor Store 3 3
Multiple Dwelling 23 41 36 19 33 11 12 6 31 25 4 12 4 3 260
Other Building 2 3 1 1 1 5 1 14
Other Business Offic 1 2 2 1 1 1 8
Other Commercial Ser 1 1 2 4
Other Outside Locati 1 3 2 1 3 1 1 3 1 2 1 2 1 22
Other Public Access 2 1 2 1 6
Other Residential 1 2 1 4
Other Retail Store 1 1 2 3 12 1 20
Park Playground 1 1 3 3 8
Parking Garage 3 3
Parking Lot 4 9 13 4 4 5 2 3 2 1 16 9 10 82
Professional Office 1 4 2 1 1 1 10
Public Transit Vehic 1 1 1 2 1 6
Rental Storage Facil 1 1
Residential Facility 3 1 2 2 8
Restaurant 2 4 2 3 3 1 15
School 1 1 7 9
Shopping Mall 2 2
Single Family Home 10 5 5 8 8 7 2 4 7 13 10 1 7 9 1 97
Sporting Goods 1 1
Street 18 24 38 12 31 26 10 3 10 24 29 5 14 2 246
Transit Facility 1 3 1 1 6
Unknown 1 1
Variety Convenience 2 6 3 3 5 5 1 1 1 5 2 34
Yard 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 9
Total 75 113 144 68 92 85 53 16 33 80 110 125 62 24 8 1088

Here is a breakdown of street crime by Ward. No street crime was reported in Ward 15, so it was not included on the table.

Ward Aggravated Assault Larceny Motor Vehicle Larceny Robbery Total
1 3 9 3 3 18
2 7 11 2 4 24
3 9 22 1 6 38
4 1 8 3 12
5 13 11 2 5 31
6 2 16 8 26
7 1 7 1 1 10
8 3 3
9 2 6 2 10
10 2 19 1 2 24
11 9 14 2 4 29
12 4 1 5
13 1 12 1 14
14 1 1 2
Total 51 142 15 38 246

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The Day the Music Died 2016 Morning

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Good morning! Today is the anniversary of the Day the Music Died. There is light rain and 40 degrees in Delmar. Today will be rain. High near 55. Breezy, with a south wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. Just forget about using an umbrella today. It will be wrecked.

Sunset will be at 5:11 pm with twilight at 5:41 pm which is one minute and 19 seconds later then yesterday. Tonight we will have a Waining Crescent Moon with 29% illuminated. It will rise at 3:04 am. With clearing expected late, you may see it as an early riser. The New Moon is on Monday. Every it’s getting closer, going faster than a roller coaster.

There are 26 days until Leap Day. February is the harshest month of them in Albany, so I know I can’t wait for the month to conclude. We often get the biggest snow storms in March but the stronger sun angle means that the snow rarely lasts.

Today is the day the music died in 1959. Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. Bye, bye. Ms American Pie. Drove the Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry.

In some ways it’s kind of a dreary morning, listening to Don McLean, Buddy Holly, the Big Bobber, and Richie Valens. The good news is the sun returns tomorrow, a bit with colder temperatures. Do you recall what was revealed on the day the music died?