75% of Mid-Hudson Valley residents believe their community is doing at least a good job protecting them from crime. This compares with 24% of residents in the region who do not rate their community positively on this issue.
Despite the high level of satisfaction, the proportion of residents in the Mid-Hudson region who think their community is doing a good job protecting them from crime has declined since 2002. Five years ago, 80% of Mid-Hudson Valley residents had a favorable impression, and 19% did not.
Residents of Putnam County are
most positive about the job their community does to protect them from crime.87% of Putnam County residents rate the job
their community is doing to protect them from crime favorably.Only 12% of county residents characterize the
job that is being done in their community as fair or poor.
Among the seven counties included in the study, residents of Sullivan County are least likely to rate the job their community is doing fighting crime favorably. Although 63% of Sullivan County residents rate the job their community is doing to fight crime as at least good, 37% rate it as only fair or poor. In fact, residents of Sullivan County are more than twice as likely as the average Mid-Hudson Valley resident to describe the job their community is doing to protect them from crime as poor.
African American residents are less satisfied with the job their community is doing to protect them from crime than other Mid-Hudson Valley residents. Only 53% of African Americans feel positively while 46% do not. In fact, 19% of African American residents believe the community is doing a poor job. In contrast, 76% of whites and 71% of Latinos think their community does at least a good job in protecting residents.
