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. Records in the new system begin in June of 2015.

The Analyze Boston Data Exports posted now are the updated incident data from the Mark43 RMS Database which launched in September of 2019 and is complete through present with the exclusion of data that falls under MGL ch.41 s.98f. The 2019 data that was originally posted contained combined exports from the Intergraph RMS and the Mark43 RMS during 2019 but the Extract/Transfer/Load process was not updated during the transition.

The Shootings dashboard contains information on shooting incidents where a victim was struck by a bullet, either fatally or non-fatally; that occurred in the City of Boston and fall under Boston Police Department jurisdiction. The dashboard does not contain records for self-inflicted gunshot wounds or shootings determined to be justifiable. Information on the incident, and the demographics of victims are included. This information is updated based on analysis conducted by the Boston Regional Intelligence Center under the Boston Police Department Bureau of Intelligence and Analysis. The data is for 2015 forward, with a 7 day rolling delay to allow for analysis and data entry to occur.

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.

Context

I am completely new to data science. As part of my learning exercises, I wanted to pick a data set that was fulsome, timely, at least somewhat relevant to my interests, etc. I am hoping this data set is that data set.

Content

This data set represents Boston Crime Incident Reports for the years beginning in 2015 through to the present. This is directly sourced from, and has been prepared by, the Boston Police Department. The original data set (which should be identical, as of the time of this writing, to what is contained in this data set) is available here.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to the Boston Police Department and the City of Boston for continuing to be on the forefront of civic transparency. It is just a small part of why I will always live here.

Inspiration

I realize that most of the information I think I 'believe' is, at best, informed by second-hand sources, which are themselves likely of questionable origin, potentially rife with bias, etc. I am hoping I can learn enough to be able to answer some of the hard questions.

FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (FBI NIBRS) crime data for Boston Police Department (City) in Massachusetts, including incidents, statistics, demographics, and detailed incident information.

FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (FBI NIBRS) crime data for Boston Police Department (City) in Georgia, including incidents, statistics, demographics, and detailed incident information.

FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (FBI NIBRS) crime data for New Boston Police Department (City) in New Hampshire, including incidents, statistics, demographics, and detailed incident information.

FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (FBI NIBRS) crime data for New Boston Police Department (City) in Texas, including incidents, statistics, demographics, and detailed incident information.

The Shots Fired dashboard contains information on shooting incidents that did not result in any victim(s) being struck; but occurred in the city of Boston and fall under Boston Police Department jurisdiction. This information may come into the department through a 911 call, a ShotSpotter activation, or an officer on-siting an incident. Shots fired incidents are confirmed when ballistics evidence is recovered, or in the absence of ballistics evidence, there is strong witness or officer corroboration. This information is updated based on analysis conducted by the Boston Regional Intelligence Center under the Boston Police Department Bureau of Intelligence and Analysis. The data is for 2015 forward, with a 7 day rolling delay to allow for analysis and data entry to occur.

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

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.

FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (FBI NIBRS) crime data for New Boston Police Department (City) in Ohio, including incidents, statistics, demographics, and detailed incident information.

This a legacy dataset from the period of November 1, 2010 to April 21, 2014 showing daily counts of 911 dispatches by City of Boston public safety agencies. Agencies included are the Boston Police Department, Boston Fire Department, and Boston Emergency Medical Services.

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.

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?

FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (FBI NIBRS) crime data for Boston Heights Police Department (City) in Ohio, including incidents, statistics, demographics, and detailed incident information.

Authoritative police districts dataset for the City of Boston.

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.

This study sought to inform various issues related to the extent of victims' adverse psychological and behavioral reactions to aggravated assault differentiated by the offenders' bias or non-bias motives. The goals of the research included (1) identifying the individual and situational factors related to bias- and non-bias-motivated aggravated assault, (2) determining the comparative severity and duration of psychological after-effects attributed to the victimization experience, and (3) measuring the comparative extent of behavioral avoidance strategies of victims. Data were collected on all 560 cases from the Boston Police Department's Community Disorders Unit from 1992 to 1997 that involved victim of a bias-motivated aggravated assault. In addition, data were collected on a 10-percent stratified random sample of victims of non-bias assaults within the city of Boston from 1993 to 1997, resulting in another 544 cases. For each of the cases, information was collected from each police incident report. Additionally, the researchers attempted to contact each victim in the sample to participate in a survey about their victimization experiences. The victim questionnaires included questions in five general categories: (1) incident information, (2) police response, (3) prosecutor response, (4) personal impact of the crime, and (5) respondent's personal characteristics. Criminal history variables were also collected regarding the number and type of adult and juvenile arrest charges against offenders and victims, as well as dispositions and arraignment dates.

Vision Zero Boston is our commitment to focus the city’s resources on proven strategies to eliminate fatal and serious traffic crashes in the city by 2030. We are inspired by the belief that even one fatality is too many. Learn more about about the Vision Zero Boston program at http://visionzeroboston.org.

This dataset, provided as part of the Vision Zero Boston program, contains records of the date, time, location, and type of fatality for Vision Zero related crashes resulting in a fatality. All records are compiled by the Department of Innovation and Technology from the City's Computer-Aided Dispatch (911) system and verified by the Boston Police Department as being a Vision Zero related fatality. To protect the privacy of individuals involved in these incidents, we do not provide any descriptions of the incident or whether medical care was provided in any specific case.

Additional notes:

• Each incident is included only once regardless of the number of individuals involved.
• The location of an incident reflects where public safety response was dispatched to, not the incident itself.
• Records are typically updated on a monthly basis, but because the verification process involves manual confirmation of incidents, exact posting schedules may vary.
• Records may be updated after their initial posting if new information becomes available.
• The data includes traffic fatalities that take place on streets that are within the jurisdiction of the Boston Police Department. It does not include traffic fatalities on streets that are within the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts State Police.
• The following are excluded: fatal crashes that occur on private property or on streets that are not owned by the City of Boston; fatalities due to driver medical emergencies, intentional assault, or suicide; fatalities where the driver or passenger fell out of a car.