SHERIFF'S
INITIATIVE FOR
PUBLIC
SAFETY
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
PUBLIC SAFETY AFFECTS ALL OF US;
HOW CAN OUR COMMUNITY MAKE IT BETTER?
With several massive changes to public safety legislation since 2018, people are often confused on what criminal justice reforms are, and the impact they have. We have listed each reform with compressed and in-depth explanations.
Our goal is to educate the public.
New York State Criminal Justice Reforms
42-Month Timeline
October 2018
August 2019
October 2019
January 2020
January 2020
March 2021
March 2022
April 2022
CITY OF ROCHESTER
CRIME STATISTICS
Data provided by the Rochester Police Department.
New York State experienced six massive reforms to criminal justice beginning in 2018. One we are familiar with is bail reform, which was implemented in the last quarter of 2019 with an anticipated 2020 start date. The following charts illustrate data for the nine years preceding bail reform and the five years post bail reform. We acknowledge violent crime is down from record highs. However, violent crime is still significantly increased from pre-criminal justice reform numbers.
VICTIMS
The humans behind the data points.