Here Are The Top 5 Crimes Committed in Buffalo This Year, So Far
With all the headlines about murders lately, you might think that homicide is the biggest crime in Buffalo, but that's not actually the case. Murder did not make the top 5 crimes list (but Buffalo does have a high murder rate, see below). Larceny is the crime committed the most in the 716. Wikipedia describes larceny as,
a crime involving the unlawful taking or theft of the personal property of another person or business.
The data was pulled from the Buffalo Police Department's crime statistics, which I sorted and analyzed.
While murders didn't make the top 5, the statistics are still quite high. There have been 49 homicides in Buffalo from January to August of 2022 (which is the most recent data). In 2021 there were 67 murders, and in 2020 there were 65. With two more months left in the year and only 8 months of data reported, 2022 is on track to be on par with 2021 and 2020. There were 61 rapes in Buffalo from January to August, making it the lowest committed crime on the list, according to the stats provided by the police department. But the number of rapes actually increased significantly from 2021, when there were 13 reported during the same time period. The other crimes that made the top 5 are listed below with the stats for each month.
5. Robberies committed (by month) in 2022, so far
52 January
44 February
56 March
42 April
41 May
37 June
37 July
51 August
Total: 360
4. Motor Vehicle Thefts committed (by month) in 2022, so far
115 January
78 February
75 March
74 April
89 May
105 June
113 July
137 August
Total: 786
3. Burglaries committed (by month) in 2022, so far
73 January
79 February
87 March
94 April
102 May
118 June
140 July
126 August
Total: 819
2. Assaults committed (by month) in 2022, so far
78 January
84 February
73 March
111 April
138 May
150 June
143 July
124 August
Total: 901
1. Larcenies committed (by month) in 2022, so far
411 January
365 February
389 March
495 April
457 May
525 June
665 July
614 August
Total: 3921
Buffalo Makes The List Of U.S. Cities With Highest Murder Rates
Buffalo made the list of cities in America with the most homicides this year. 24/7 Wall St. compiled the list. It used homicide data from this year along with population 2020 data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
We considered all U.S. cities with populations of at least 250,000 as well as cities with smaller populations and an average of at least 10 homicides a year between 2015 and 2019. Only cities with publicly available homicide data were considered.
19. Buffalo, NY
> Murders in 2022 per 100,000 people: 15.6
> Total murders from Jan. 1 to June 30, 2022: 40
> Population: 255,805
Credit: 24/7 Wall St.