Authoritative police districts dataset for the City of Boston.

Point layer of Boston police station locations. Includes BPD Headquarters and Area police stations- shared publicly on Analyze Boston

The Domestic Violence Research Project was a pilot study designed to examine the dynamics of domestic violence within two of the ten police districts that comprise the city of Boston. The objectives were to collect data on domestic violence in greater detail than previously possible, conduct various analyses on this information, and determine how the findings could best be used to improve the police, prosecutorial, and social service responses to domestic violence. Data for 1993 are a stratified random sample of reported domestic violence incidents occurring throughout the year. The sample represents approximately 27 percent of the domestic violence incidents reported in 1993 for the two districts studied, B3 and D4. The 1994 data include all reported incidents occurring in the two districts during the period May to July. After the incident selection process was completed, data were collected from police incident reports, follow-up investigation reports, criminal history reports, and court dockets. Variables include arrest offenses, time of incident, location of incident, witnesses (including children), nature and extent of injuries, drug and alcohol use, history of similar incidents, whether there were restraining orders in effect, and basic demographic information on victims and offenders. Criminal history information was coded into five distinct categories: (1) violent offenses, (2) nonviolent offenses, (3) domestic violence offenses, (4) drug/alcohol offenses, and (5) firearms offenses.

Boston_Police_Stations

Police Stations. Point created from centroid of Police Department Station Polygons. Original polygon layer created by Peter McDonald. Updated 2/2002 by James Alberque based on Information from the BPD. Updated 8/2011 by City of Boston DoIT Department.

Crime incident reports are provided by Boston Police Department (BPD) to document the initial details surrounding an incident to which BPD officers respond. 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.

The data was collected between 2015 and 2022.

Dataset source: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/crime-incident-reports-august-2015-to-date-source-new-system

A final presentation of the insights can be found at https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/christian.jungmann/viz/BostonIncidentsandCrime2016-2022/BostonPoliceReports2016-2022

Columns description: INCIDENT_NUMBER : ID given to the incident once it was reported OFFENSE_CODE: Code used to identify the type of offense OFFENSE_CODE_GROUP: Category of the offense (entries are blank from 2019) OFFENSE_DESCRIPTION: Description of the offense DISTRICT: Police district in which the offense took place REPORTING AREA: Area where the offense was reported SHOOTING: Indicates if there was gunfire reported with the incident. (blank/Y until 2018, 0/1 from 2019) OCCURRED_ON_DATE: Date and time of the report YEAR: Year of the report MONTH: Month of the report DAY_OF_WEEK: Day of the week when the offense occured HOUR: Hour of the report UCR_PART: Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Summary System Part corresponding to the offense STREET: Street where the offense took place Lat: Latitute where the offense took place Long: Longitude where the offense took place Location: Coordinates where the offense took place

License: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

The Boston Police Department's Homicide Investigation Unit, in conjunction with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, investigates deaths that occur while a prisoner is under police custody. This may include incidents that occur during arrest, transport, while in a holding cell, etc.

The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office has legal authority over all death investigations in Suffolk County. They investigate all in custody deaths in conjunction with BPD, and make a determination as to whether there is a violation of criminal law.

Due to the infrequency of in-custody deaths, this dashboard will be updated as soon as possible following an incident, or a new medical examiner report is received. If there are no incidents in a year the dashboard will be updated annually to record a zero for the previous year.

This data set contains a series of administrative geographies utilized by the City of Boston, including: traditional neighborhoods defined by the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA Neighborhood Statistical Areas, BPDA Planning Districts); election board regions (City Council Districts, Election Precincts, Election Wards); and districts for City operations (Fire Districts, ISD Neighborhoods, Police Districts, Public Works Districts, and ZIP Codes). For each we include a shape file with unique identifiers. These geographic files were obtained from the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology’s Analyze Boston data hub site: https://data.boston.gov/. Information pertaining to these files can be found in the most recent documentation for the "Geographical Infrastructure for the City of Boston." Note: These geographies are the most recent updated versions at the time of the release of the most recent Geographical Infrastructure for the City of Boston.

Crime incident reports are provided by Boston Police Department (BPD) to document the initial details surrounding an incident to which BPD officers respond. Data includes records created after January 1, 2018 and is updated once per day. Incidents appear in this list with a seven day lag period.

This study examines the state of counterterrorism and homeland security in five large urban law enforcement agencies (the Boston Police Department, the Houston Police Department, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, and the Miami-Dade Police Department) nine years following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It explores the long-term adjustments that these agencies made to accommodate this new role. Researchers from the RAND Corporation, in consultation with National Institute of Justice project staff, selected law enforcement agencies of major urban areas with a high risk of terrorist attacks from different regions of the United States that have varied experiences with counterterrorism and homeland security issues. The research team conducted on-site, in-depth interviews with personnel involved in developing or implementing counterterrorism or homeland security functions within their respective agency. The research team used a standardized interview protocol to address such issues as security operations, regional role, organizational structures, challenges associated with the focus on counterterrorism and homeland security issues, information sharing, training, equipment, and grant funding.

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?

Each year, the City of Boston publishes payroll data for employees. This dataset contains employee names, job details, and earnings information including base salary, overtime, and total compensation for employees of the City.

See the "Payroll Categories" document below for an explanation of what types of earnings are included in each category.