Crime & Safety
Town-By-Town Look At Crime Rates, Counts In CT
Overall crime in Connecticut dropped 4 percent from 2021 to 2022, but there are still some hot spots. Here's the town-by-town breakdown.
CONNECTICUT — Among the municipalities with their own police departments in Connecticut, New Haven, Hartford, Waterbury, New Britain and Derby reported the highest rates of crime last year.
The numbers were highlighted in the 45th annual edition of "Crime in Connecticut," released last month by The Crimes Analysis Unit of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection. Officials call 2022's report "the most comprehensive source of crime-related data for the state."
Since 1930, participating local, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies have voluntarily provided the nation with crime statistics through the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program via the Summary Reporting System. On Jan. 1, 2021 that system was retired, and the country shifted to National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). By that date, all 107 of Connecticut’s law enforcement agencies were submitting data in incident-based format. The Crimes Analysis Unit maintains and submits Connecticut’s crime data to the FBI.
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The analysis compares the number of crimes brought to the attention of law enforcement agencies and reported to the state in 2022 with previous years, and with the data reported by other states to the FBI. Town-by-town rankings were also included in the report, and appear below.
The NIBRS categorizes the incident report data into "Crimes Against Persons," (e.g., murder, rape, and assault), "Crimes Against Property" (e.g., robbery, bribery, and burglary) and "Crimes Against Society" (e.g., Animal Cruelty, Drug/Narcotic offenses, and Gambling). Offense classifications are not based on filings of the prosecutor, court, medical examiner, jury, or other judicial or subsequent findings, but rather on law enforcement categorization.
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Some towns have their own police department, while the Connecticut State Police handle crimes on the interstates and highways in and around town jurisdictions.
Some towns have resident troopers that report their data to CSP, and some towns are solely monitored by CSP.
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