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.
