This map shows a comparable measure of crime in the United States. The crime index compares the average local crime level to that of the United States as a whole. An index of 100 is average. A crime index of 120 indicates that crime in that area is 20 percent above the national average.The crime data is provided by Applied Geographic Solutions, Inc. (AGS). AGS created models using the FBI Uniform Crime Report databases as the primary data source and using an initial range of about 65 socio-economic characteristics taken from the 2000 Census and AGS’ current year estimates. The crimes included in the models include murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft. The total crime index incorporates all crimes and provides a useful measure of the relative “overall” crime rate in an area. However, these are unweighted indexes, meaning that a murder is weighted no more heavily than a purse snatching in the computations. The geography depicts states, counties, Census tracts and Census block groups. An urban/rural "mask" layer helps you identify crime patterns in rural and urban settings. The Census tracts and block groups help identify neighborhood-level variation in the crime data.------------------------The Civic Analytics Network collaborates on shared projects that advance the use of data visualization and predictive analytics in solving important urban problems related to economic opportunity, poverty reduction, and addressing the root causes of social problems of equity and opportunity. For more information see About the Civil Analytics Network.

Is Boston Metro, MA Safe? The B grade means the rate of crime is slightly lower than the average US metro area. Boston Metro is in the 69th percentile for safety, meaning 31% of metro areas are safer and 69% of metro areas are more dangerous. This analysis applies to the Boston metro area's proper boundaries only. See the table on nearby places below for nearby metro areas.

The rate of crime in the Boston metro area is 19.92 per 1,000 residents during a standard year. People who live in the Boston metro area generally consider the southwest part of the metro area to be the safest.

Your chance of being a victim of crime in the Boston metro area may be as high as 1 in 32 in the central neighborhoods, or as low as 1 in 92 in the southwest part of the metro area. See the section on interpreting the crime map, however, because comparing rates for crime or any other crime is not as intuitive as it may seem. It can help us answer?

Type of crime vs locations where the crime took place? If there is any change in criminal activities in past years? Which location is safe and which is unsafe? Interestingly one can peek - DO MORE BROKEN WINDOWS MEAN MORE CRIME?

Here is the theory:

Researchers theorized that graffiti, abandoned buildings, panhandling, and other signs of disorder in neighborhoods create an environment that leads people to commit more crime.

In the “broken windows theory,” as it has come to be known, such characteristics convey the message that these places aren’t monitored and crime will go unpunished. The theory has led police to crack down on minor crimes with the idea that this will prevent more serious crimes, and inspired research on how disorder affects people’s health.

Inspiration Is the crime incident related to the area in Boston? Is there any relationship between the region and the types of crime? Is there any specific time during a week, a month or a year will infect the crime?

In 2023, the District of Columbia had the highest reported violent crime rate in the United States, with 1,150.9 violent crimes per 100,000 of the population. Maine had the lowest reported violent crime rate, with 102.5 offenses per 100,000 of the population. Life in the District The District of Columbia has seen a fluctuating population over the past few decades. Its population decreased throughout the 1990s, when its crime rate was at its peak, but has been steadily recovering since then. While unemployment in the District has also been falling, it still has had a high poverty rate in recent years. The gentrification of certain areas within Washington, D.C. over the past few years has made the contrast between rich and poor even greater and is also pushing crime out into the Maryland and Virginia suburbs around the District. Law enforcement in the U.S. Crime in the U.S. is trending downwards compared to years past, despite Americans feeling that crime is a problem in their country. In addition, the number of full-time law enforcement officers in the U.S. has increased recently, who, in keeping with the lower rate of crime, have also made fewer arrests than in years past.

Boston 003e, Lincolnshire property and local residence statistical data. View in-depth data for Boston 003e & surrounding areas.

Context-

This is a dataset containing records from the new crime incident report system, which includes a reduced set of fields focused on capturing the type of incident as well as when and where it occurred.

Content-

This dataset has 2,60,760 rows and 17 columns.

• INCIDENT_NUMBER:
• OFFENSE_CODE:
• OFFENSE_CODE_GROUP:
• OFFENSE_DESCRIPTION:
• DISTRICT:
• REPORTING_AREA:
• SHOOTING:
• OCCURRED_ON_DATE:
• YEAR:
• MONTH:
• DAY_OF_WEEK:
• HOUR:
• UCR_PART:
• STREET:
• LATITUDE:
• LONGITUDE:
• LOCATION:

Acknowledgements-

I would like to thank the Boston Police Department for making this dataset available to everyone.

Inspiration

1. How has crime changed over the years?
2. Is it possible to predict where or when a crime will be committed?
3. Which areas of the city have evolved over this time span?
4. In which area most crimes are committed?

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Boston 004, Lincolnshire property and local residence statistical data. View in-depth data for Boston 004 & surrounding areas.

This data collection was designed to explore attitudes toward crime and the police and to examine factors related to criminal victimization and the reporting of crime incidents to the police. It combines a victimization survey with data on citizens' attitudes toward crime and the police, and information on behavior in response to crime or the threat of crime. Variables provide information about respondents' neighborhood characteristics, individual demographic attributes (e.g., age, race, gender, education, income, religion, marital status), perceptions of crime, social environment, respondents' views of the criminal justice system, experiences with the police, criminal victimization experiences, protective measures taken, victim-offender relationship, characteristics of the crime incident, police response to crime reports, and victim perceptions of and satisfaction with police response.

This collection evaluates the impact of a new foot patrol plan, implemented by the Boston Police Department, on incidents of crime and neighborhood disturbances. Part 1 contains information on service calls by types of criminal offenses such as murder, rape, aggravated assault, simple assault, robbery, larceny, burglary, and auto theft. It also contains data on types of community disturbances such as noisy party, gang, or minor disturbance and response priority of the incidents. Response priorities are classified according to a four-level scale: Priority 1: emergency calls including crimes in progress, high risk or personal injury, and medical emergencies, Priority 2: calls of intermediate urgency, Priority 3: calls not requiring immediate response, Priority 4: calls of undetermined priority. Parts 2 and 3 include information about patrol time used in each of the three daily shifts during the pre- and post-intervention periods. Part 4 presents information similar to Parts 2 and 3 but the data span a longer period of time--approximately seven years.

Boston 001c, Lincolnshire property and local residence statistical data. View in-depth data for Boston 001c & surrounding areas.

1. crim: Per capita crime rate by town.
2. zn: Proportion of large residential lots (over 25,000 sq. ft.).
3. indus: Proportion of non-retail business acres per town.
4. Chas: Binary variable indicating if the property is near Charles River (1 for yes, 0 for no).
5. nox: Concentration of nitrogen oxides in the air.
6. rm: Average number of rooms per dwelling.
7. age: Proportion of old owner-occupied units built before 1940.
8. dis: Weighted distances to Boston employment centers.
9. rad: Index of accessibility to radial highways.
10. tax: Property tax rate per $10,000.

These features provide valuable information about the characteristics of neighborhoods that can influence housing prices.

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