New York Adult DWI Arrests by County

What it shows

Shows the arrests of people 18 or older for fingerprintable DWI offenses, felony and misdemeanor, that the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services counted in each county, year by year from 2015. The year view shows the state total, its rate per 100,000 adults and the change from year to year, and can set up to two counties beside each other. The county view ranks every county for a year by its count, with each county’s own line beside its bar. Select a county for its figures, its rank, its share of the state and the felony and misdemeanor parts of its count. A county is where the arrest was recorded, not where the person lives, so the chart gives counts and no county rates. The Division counts fingerprintable offenses only: a lesser impaired-driving charge that is only a traffic infraction is not in its table.

How to read it

• The line is the state total: the sum of its counties. The dashed segment and hollow dot mark a preliminary year, if the source has one. Click any year to look at that year in the county view.
• The state’s rate divides its arrests by its residents 18 or older, because the Division counts adults only. It uses one population estimate, July 1, 2025, for every year, so a rate for an earlier year is only approximate.
• In the county view, bars rank the counties for the chosen year by count, and the small line beside each bar is that county’s own range over all the years: compare shapes, not heights. Search narrows the list.
• There is no county rate and no ranking by rate. A county’s count is where the arrest was recorded, so it says more about where police stop drivers than about who lives there.
• The chart starts in 2015.
• Arrests are not people, and the counts reflect enforcement effort as well as behavior.

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