Recorded 'Failure to Perform Duty' Incidents / 10,000 people

Each city's population was determined using the 2020 Census. Failure to perform duty incidents were tagged by our reporters and are not official police categorizations.

Each police department has made a different number of disciplinary records available through FOIA requests. We only included departments who we have more than 15 years of records on in this graph. The number of years covered by each department's records is shown by the lines on each bar. *The number of failure to perform duty incidents per person living in a NYS city where these incidents have occurred.
Source: USA Today Network New York's 50a DatabaseCreated with Datawrapper