PUI2016 Extra Credit Project Proposal
Rape Crime Investigation on Household Income Distribution Across New York City  <Yu Chen, jazzzchan, yc3300>
Among seven felonies, rape and sexual assualt is the most critical one as its physical pain and psychological sufferings on victims/survivors are lifelong haunts. Previously researchers had conducted studies on relationship between unemployment rate and crime rate and concluded positive correlation. This paper will take a closer step to  visualize rape occurrences across new york city, test the correlation between median household income level and rape crime data and predict if income level is correlated to rape occurrences. 
Crime data for this paper will be collected from the New York City Police Department (hereafter NYPD) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (hereafter BJS). NYPD provides crime data in accordance with the New York State Penal Law and other New York State laws. For each rape crime,  both historical felony data and citywide complaint statistics will be merged to generate a more complete NYPD dataset (there is still possibility in missing data but it's critical how to minimize the effect from missing data). 
NYPD citywide crime statistics-incident level data takes us to all the complaints that NYPD has received. NYPD Citywide Historical Data- Citywide Seven Major Felony Offenses 2000-2016 provides us information on the same level(felony) but has less numbers compared to NYPD citywide crime statistics. Two datasets will be cross checked to ensure integrity.
The median household income data will be acquired from NYC census tract dataset on a census tract level.  Due to time limitation, this project will only invest incidents throughout 2015. 
To test if rape is correlated to lower household income areas, a linear regression model between rape incidents and household level by census tract will be conducted. Additionally, I will generate a plot to visualize the median household income distribution and rape incidence occurrence locations.
NYPD Complaint Data Historic Dataset
Citywide Seven Major Felony Offenses 2000-2016
 The Factors Related to Rape Reporting Behavior and Arrest - New Evidence from the National Crime Victimization Survey
BJS Activities on Measuring Rape and Sexual Assault
NYPD historical crime data
New Directions for Measuring Rape and Sexual Assault
1. Map (most likely a heat map) of median household income by census tract and rape occurence within the corresponding zip codes
2.  Linear regression model table