According to the U.S department of justice there's a theorized relation between unemployment and the number of crimes. It is said that during a period of unemployment a person is more likely to commit a crime to enable them to survive economically (Author(s) R Tarling, Unemployment and crime). Therefore, it is considered that through periods of low unemployment the rate of crimes would increase. The graphs below, compare the total amount of crimes with the rate of unemployment, obtained only from the civil labor force available during each year.
The graph from unemployment allows us to visualize that around the year 2010 the level of unemployment was at a maximum point, having started its rapid increase from the year 2007. Mostly all of the states have this same peak in unemployment rate which is probable due to the market economic deterioration. (Bureau of Labor Statistics) The question however, focuses on the relationship between crime and unemployment, therefore when comparing both graphs from the year 2000 to 2018 it is not possible to see any correlation between these two variables. The initial hypothesis between the factors had been that when unemployment peaked we should have been able to see a peak in the total crimes graph, this however seems to only show a decrease even in the year 2010 when unemployment rate was at its maximum.