Requests taken and satisfied by Archives and Records Management. Gives details for each request including time to service the request and demonstrates efforts to provide public and Boston municipal government with access to public records.

FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (FBI NIBRS) crime data for Boston University Police Department (University or College) 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 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.

Boston Transportation Department (BTD) districts.

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.

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.

Context

Crime Incident Reports (August 2015 - July 2020) by Boston Police Department

Content

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.

Acknowledgements

The dataset is maintained by Analyze Boston and Boston Police Department - https://data.boston.gov/dataset/crime-incident-reports-august-2015-to-date-source-new-system.

Inspiration

Geospatial clustering of the locations to identify, which area has higher crime rates. Calculating the trend of the crime across the years and identifying crimes which are more common. Exploring if variables like Time of the Day, Day of the Week, Weather conditions affect crime rates.

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.

Data tables consisting of Excel files with estimates, rates, relative standard errors, trends and confidence intervals, covering 2004-2011, for drug-related emergency department visits for the Boston Metropolitan Statistical Area. Tables are provided for 10 topics ("analytic categories") which are defined in the "Guide to Drug Abuse Warning Trend Tables," a separate document. Each table includes data for over 500 drugs, including illicit drugs, prescription and over-the-counter medications, dietary supplements, inhalants and alcohol. Includes total visits, gender, age group, race/ethnicity, outcome of visit, drug combinations, number of drugs involved in visit, drug frequency, and drugs confirmed by toxicology. Additional detail is provided for illicit drugs, psychotherapeutic drugs, central nervous system (CNS) drugs, respiratory drugs and cardiovascular drugs.

This dataset includes the City of Boston Planning Department Research Division's population estimates for Boston's population at the neighborhood level on January 1st, 2025. The Research Division created age-specific population estimates for Boston, its neighborhoods and census tracts. 2019-2023 American Community Survey (ACS) data were used to analyze the Research Division population estimates by demographic characteristics.The Research Division developed these estimates in light of the 2020 Decennial Census and subsequent American Community Surveys undercounts of Boston's population. The Research Division provides annual estimates of Boston's population rectifying this undercount.To view these data interactively at the city, neighborhood, and tract level, please use the Research Division's MyDemographic Viewer tool.To view these data interactively from 1950 to 2035, please use the Research Division's Exploring Neighborhood Change Tool.For more information on the Research Division's motivations and methodology for creating alternate population estimates to the Census Bureau, please see the following documents:A detailed explanation for the motivation for creating these population estimates can be found here.A presentation overview of the undercount of Boston's population can be found here.A detailed explanation of the population estimation methodology can be found here.For research inquiries and to view more work by the City of Boston Planning Department Research Division, please visit our website: www.bostonplans.org/research.

Data pulled from https://data.boston.gov/dataset/vision-zero-crash-records.

Visit http://visionzeroboston.org for more info.

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 crash for incidents requiring public safety response which may involve injuries or fatalities. All records are compiled by the Department of Innovation and Technology from the City's Computer-Aided Dispatch (911) system and verified as having required a response from a public safety agency. To protect the privacy of individuals involved in these incidents, we do not indicate the severity of specific crashes 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 date and time of an incident reflects when public safety response was dispatched to the location, not the crash 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 Hubway trip history data includes every trip taken through Nov 2013 ? with date, time, origin and destination stations, plus the bike number and more. Data from 2011/07 through 2013/11 The Hubway trip history data Every time a Hubway user checks a bike out from a station, the system records basic information about the trip. Those anonymous data points have been exported into the spreadsheet. Please note, all private data including member names have been removed from these files. What can the data tell us? The CSV file contains data for every Hubway trip from the system launch on July 28th, 2011, through the end of September, 2012. The file contains the data points listed below for each trip. We ve also posed some of the questions you could answer with this dataset - we re sure you.ll have lots more of your own. Duration - Duration of trip. What s the average trip duration for annual members vs. casual users? Start date - Includes start date and time. What are the peak Hubway hours?

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.

The FIO program encompasses a wide range of interactions between the Boston Police Department (BPD) and private individuals. By releasing the records of these interactions, BPD hopes to add transparency to the execution of the program while still protecting the privacy of the individuals involved. These records are now sourced from three different record management systems titled: (OLD RMS) (NEW RMS) and (MARK43). The differences between the resulting files are described below.

About the FIO Records (Mark43) Files (Sept 29 2023 - Dec 31 2024)

These records are compiled from the BPD’s new Records Management System (RMS) on the BPD's FIO program. MARK43 went live September 29, 2019 and the FIO information has been structured into two separate tables. These tables are the same titles as (NEW RMS) but include new or different data points as retrieved from MARK43.

• FieldContact, which lists each contact between BPD and one or more individuals
• FieldContact_Name, which lists each individual involved in these contacts.

A FIO Data Key has also been created and posted to help distinguish the data categories (Data Key (Mark43)).

Lastly, FIOs are maintained in a live database and information related to each individual may change overtime. The data provided here should be considered a static representation of the Field Interaction and/or Observation that occurred in 2019.

NULL indicates no entry was made for an optional field.

About the FIO Records 2015 (New RMS) and 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 (Jan 1 - Sept 29 2020) Files

These records are compiled from the BPD’s new Records Management System (RMS) on the BPD's FIO program. The new RMS, which went live in June, 2015, structures the FIO information into two separate tables:

• FieldContact, which lists each contact between BPD and one or more individuals
• FieldContact_Name, which lists each individual involved in these contacts

While these two tables align on the field contact number (fc_num) column, it is not methodologically correct to join the two datasets for the purpose of generating aggregate statistics on columns from the FieldContact table. Doing so would lead to incorrect estimates stemming from contacts with multiple individuals. As noted in the Data Key (New RMS) file, several of the columns in the FieldContact table apply to the contact as a whole, but may not necessarily apply to each individual involved in the contact. These include:

• frisked
• searchperson
• summonsissued
• circumstances
• basis
• contact_reason

For example, the frisked column contains a value of Y if any of the individuals involved in a contact were frisked, but it would be inaccurate to assume that all individuals were frisked during that contact. As such, extrapolating from the frisked column for a contact to each individual and then summing across them would give an artificially high estimate of the number of people frisked in total. Likewise, the summonsissued column indicates when someone involved in a contact was issued a summons, but this does not imply that everyone involved in a contact was issued a summons.

For a detailed listing of columns in each table, see both tables of the Data Key (New RMS) file below.

About the FIO Records 2011 - 2015 (Old RMS) File

These records are sourced from BPD's older RMS, which was retired in June, 2015. This system (which stored all records in a single table, rather than the two tables in the newer system) captures similar information to the new RMS, but users should note that the fields are not identical and exercise care when comparing or combining records from each system.

Additional Notes

• The data provided is FIO information entered into the new system from June, 2015 through December, 2016, which includes some interactions which occurred before June, 2015 which were entered after the transition from the old system. For comprehensive analyses of interactions prior to the introduction of the new RMS, users will need to include data on interactions prior to June, 2015 from the 2015 (New RMS) file.
• These files are extracted from live databases which may have records added or updated at any time. As such, the number and content of records shared here may differ slightly from versions used to produce analyses such as those linked below, due to subsequent revisions to the underlying database records.
• A contact can consist of an observation of a vehicle, without direct contact with a person. This would create a record where no person-level details are recorded.

For more information on the FIO Program, please visit:

Boston Police Commissioner Announces Field Interrogation and Observation (FIO) Study Results

Commissioner Evans Continues Efforts to Increase Transparency and Accountability of Policing Activities to the Public

Boston Police Department Releases Latest Field Interrogation Observation Data

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.

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.

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.

These datasets include Food Establishment Inspections processed from the city’s open data initiative (data.boston.gov), and the connection with data scraped from Yelp (namely, Yelp reviews) scraped by BARI. The data is within the city of Boston. The Food Inspections dataset is released by the Health Division of the Department of Inspectional Services of Boston which ensures that all food establishments in the City of Boston meet relevant sanitary codes and standards. The data scraped from Yelp pages includes information about restaurants in Boston that were reviewed on yelp.com. Thus, the data includes two files: Food.Inspections.Records.csv contains information about food inspections at record level (i.e. each record for each restaurant is included). Food.Inspections.Yelp.Restaurant.csv contains information about food inspections at the restaurant level plus information from Yelp reviews also at the restaurant level.

City of Boston sidewalk inventory data. Completed by the Boston Public Works Department (PWD) in 2014.Sidewalk Inventory data dictionary.