***Starting on March 7th, 2024, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) will adopt a new Records Management System for reporting crimes and arrests. This new system is being implemented to comply with the FBI's mandate to collect NIBRS-only data (NIBRS — FBI - https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/more-fbi-services-and-information/ucr/nibrs). During this transition, users will temporarily see only incidents reported in the retiring system. However, the LAPD is actively working on generating new NIBRS datasets to ensure a smoother and more efficient reporting system. ***

******Update 1/18/2024 - LAPD is facing issues with posting the Crime data, but we are taking immediate action to resolve the problem. We understand the importance of providing reliable and up-to-date information and are committed to delivering it.

As we work through the issues, we have temporarily reduced our updates from weekly to bi-weekly to ensure that we provide accurate information. Our team is actively working to identify and resolve these issues promptly.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding. Rest assured, we are doing everything we can to fix the problem and get back to providing weekly updates as soon as possible. ******

This dataset reflects incidents of crime in the City of Los Angeles dating back to 2020. This data is transcribed from original crime reports that are typed on paper and therefore there may be some inaccuracies within the data. Some location fields with missing data are noted as (0°, 0°). Address fields are only provided to the nearest hundred block in order to maintain privacy. This data is as accurate as the data in the database. Please note questions or concerns in the comments.

As of 2020, there were ****** violent crimes reported in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Police Department. Within the provided time period, the highest number of robberies was reported in 2017, at ******.

Serious violent crimes consist of Part 1 offenses as defined by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Uniform Reporting Statistics. These include murders, nonnegligent homicides, rapes (legacy and revised), robberies, and aggravated assaults. LAPD data were used for City of Los Angeles, LASD data were used for unincorporated areas and cities that contract with LASD for law enforcement services, and CA Attorney General data were used for all other cities with local police departments. This indicator is based on location of residence. Single-year data are only available for Los Angeles County overall, Service Planning Areas, Supervisorial Districts, City of Los Angeles overall, and City of Los Angeles Council Districts.Neighborhood violence and crime can have a harmful impact on all members of a community. Living in communities with high rates of violence and crime not only exposes residents to a greater personal risk of injury or death, but it can also render individuals more susceptible to many adverse health outcomes. People who are regularly exposed to violence and crime are more likely to suffer from chronic stress, depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions. They are also less likely to be able to use their parks and neighborhoods for recreation and physical activity.For more information about the Community Health Profiles Data Initiative, please see the initiative homepage.

There has been little research on United States homicide rates from a long-term perspective, primarily because there has been no consistent data series on a particular place preceding the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), which began its first full year in 1931. To fill this research gap, this project created a data series that spans two centuries on homicides per capita for the city of Los Angeles. The goal was to create a site-specific, individual-based data series that could be used to examine major social shifts related to homicide, such as mass immigration, urban growth, war, demographic changes, and changes in laws. The basic approach to the data collection was to obtain the best possible estimate of annual counts and the most complete information on individual homicides. Data were derived from multiple sources, including Los Angeles court records, as well as annual reports of the coroner and daily newspapers. Part 1 (Annual Homicides and Related Data) variables include Los Angeles County annual counts of homicides, counts of female victims, method of killing such as drowning, suffocating, or strangling, and the homicide rate. Part 2 (Individual Homicide Data) variables include the date and place of the murder, the age, sex, race, and place of birth of the offender and victim, type of weapon used, and source of data.

This dataset, curated by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), provides detailed records of crime incidents reported across Los Angeles from 2020 to 2023. It reflects the LAPD’s commitment to transparency and public safety, offering insights into crime trends, enforcement actions, and neighborhood-specific challenges. The data serves as a critical resource for researchers, policymakers, and residents to understand urban safety dynamics.

🔗 Source

Directly sourced from the LAPD’s Public Data Portal on Data.gov.

💡 Inspiration

Public Accountability: Empower communities to track crime trends in their neighborhoods.

Policy & Prevention: Aid law enforcement and city planners in resource allocation and hotspot intervention.

Research: Enable academics to study socio-economic factors, seasonal patterns, and the impact of policing strategies.

🔍 Key Attributes

Temporal: Incident date/time (DATE OCC), report date (Date Rptd).

Geospatial: Latitude/longitude 🌐, cross streets, police precinct (AREA NAME).

Crime Details: Type (Crm Cd Desc), weapon used 🔫, premise (e.g., street, store 🏪).

Victim Data: Age, gender ♀️♂️, descent.

Case Status: Arrests 🚨, investigations 🕵️, court outcomes ⚖️.

As of 2020, there were *** homicides reported in Los Angeles. This was the highest amount reported within the provided time period, followed by *** homicides that were reported in 2012.

This dataset contains the incidents of crime in the city of Los Angeles from the year 2020 to present. This data was collected and published by the LAPD and you can find this data source here at this link. Each row of data is one individual crime incident. This dataset also contains detailed information such as when and where the crime took place, and a description of the crime.

This dataset contains a code called the mocode. The mocode is activities associated with the suspect in commission of the crime. To figure out what each code means use this link, it is a pdf file with descriptions of each code used within the dataset.

The exact location of the crime has been rounded to 100 blocks to maintain privacy.

This dataset reflects incidents of crime in the City of Los Angeles from 2010 - 2019. This data is transcribed from original crime reports that are typed on paper and therefore there may be some inaccuracies within the data. Some location fields with missing data are noted as (0°, 0°). Address fields are only provided to the nearest hundred block in order to maintain privacy. This data is as accurate as the data in the database. Please note questions or concerns in the comments.

The purpose of this data collection was to investigate the effects of crime rates, city characteristics, and police departments' financial resources on felony case attrition rates in 28 cities located in Los Angeles County, California. Demographic data for this collection were obtained from the 1983 COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK. Arrest data were collected directly from the 1980 and 1981 CALIFORNIA OFFENDER BASED TRANSACTION STATISTICS (OBTS) data files maintained by the California Bureau of Criminal Statistics. City demographic variables include total population, minority population, population aged 65 years or older, number of female-headed families, number of index crimes, number of families below the poverty level, city expenditures, and police expenditures. City arrest data include information on number of arrests disposed and number of males, females, blacks, and whites arrested. Also included are data on the number of cases released by police, denied by prosecutors, and acquitted, and data on the number of convicted cases given prison terms.

The dataset is part of the Los Angeles Crimes records, selecting values of two years (2018 and 2019). The original data was downloaded from the Open Data portal of the City of Los Angeles, on May 29, 2020. The dataset was dowloaded from: https://data.lacity.org/A-Safe-City/Crime-Data-from-2010-to-2019/63jg-8b9z

As of 2020, there were ****** burglaries reported in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Police Department. Within the provided time period, the greatest number of burglaries in Los Angeles were in 2010, with ****** reported.

In 2022, the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro area recorded the highest homicide rate of U.S. cities with a population over 250,000, at **** homicides per 100,000 residents, followed by the Memphis, TN-MS-AR metro area. However, homicide data was not recorded in all U.S. metro areas, meaning that there may be some cities with a higher homicide rate. St. Louis St. Louis, which had a murder and nonnegligent manslaughter rate of **** in 2022, is the second-largest city by population in Missouri. It is home to many famous treasures, such as the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, Washington University in St. Louis, the Saint Louis Zoo, and the renowned Gateway Arch. It is also home to many corporations, such as Monsanto, Arch Coal, and Emerson Electric. The economy of St. Louis is centered around business and healthcare, and boasts ten Fortune 500 companies. Crime in St. Louis Despite all of this, St. Louis suffers from high levels of crime and violence. As of 2023, it was listed as the seventh most dangerous city in the world as a result of their extremely high murder rate. Not only does St. Louis have one of the highest homicide rates in the United States, it also reports one of the highest numbers of violent crimes. Despite high crime levels, the GDP of the St. Louis metropolitan area has been increasing since 2001.

As of 2020, there were ***** rapes reported in Los Angeles. Within the provided time period, the highest number of rapes reported was in 2018, at *****.

As of 2020, there were ****** property crimes reported in Los Angeles, a steady decrease from 2017 when there were ******* property crimes reported.

This evaluation was developed and implemented by the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office to examine the effectiveness of specialized prosecutorial activities in dealing with the local problem of rising gang violence, in particular the special gang prosecution unit Operation Hardcore. One part of the evaluation was a system performance analysis. The purposes of this system performance analysis were (1) to describe the problems of gang violence in Los Angeles and the ways that incidents of gang violence were handled by the Los Angeles criminal justice system, and (2) to document the activities of Operation Hardcore and its effect on the criminal justice system's handling of the cases prosecuted by that unit. Computer-generated listings from the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office of all individuals referred for prosecution by local police agencies were used to identify those individuals who were subsequently prosecuted by the District Attorney. Data from working files on all cases prosecuted, including copies of police, court, and criminal history records as well as information on case prosecution, were used to describe criminal justice handling. Information from several supplementary sources was also included, such as the automated Prosecutors Management Information System (PROMIS) maintained by the District Attorney's Office, and court records from the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles County, the local felony court.

This indicator is based on location of residence. Mortality rate has been age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population. ICD 10 codes used to identify homicides are X85-Y09, Y87.1, and U01-U02. Single-year data are only available for Los Angeles County overall, Service Planning Areas, Supervisorial Districts, City of Los Angeles overall, and City of Los Angeles Council Districts.Violence is a public health crisis in the US, with gun violence being a major driver. Almost three quarters of homicides involve firearms. In the US, the age-adjusted homicide rate from firearms is more than 20 times higher than in the European Union or in Australia. Significant disparities by age, sex, and race and ethnicity exist, with young adults ages 15-34 years, males, and Black individuals most disproportionately impacted. Comprehensive prevention strategies should work to address the underlying physical, social, economic, and structural conditions known to increase risk.For more information about the Community Health Profiles Data Initiative, please see the initiative homepage.

Content

More details about each file are in the individual file descriptions.

Context

This is a dataset hosted by the city of Los Angeles. The organization has an open data platform found here and they update their information according the amount of data that is brought in. Explore Los Angeles's Data using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the city of Los Angeles organization page!

• Update Frequency: This dataset is updated weekly.

Acknowledgements

This dataset is maintained using Socrata's API and Kaggle's API. Socrata has assisted countless organizations with hosting their open data and has been an integral part of the process of bringing more data to the public.

This dataset is distributed under the following licenses: Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication)

This study was conducted in 1979 at the Social Science Research Institute, University of Southern California, and explores the relationship between neighborhood change and crime rates between the years 1950 and 1976. The data were aggregated by unique and consistently-defined spatial areas, referred to as dummy tracts or neighborhoods, within Los Angeles County. By combining United States Census data and administrative data from several state, county, and local agencies, the researchers were able to develop measures that tapped the changing structural and compositional aspects of each neighborhood and their interaction with the patterns of juvenile delinquency. Some of the variables included are annual income, home environment, number of crimes against persons, and number of property crimes.

This dataset is a filtered view of LASD-published year-to-date crime data for the City of West Hollywood, updated monthly. It is presented in its raw format and is completely unaltered.

Please contact the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department with any questions regarding the underlying data.

Incident Date = Date the crime incident occurred Incident Reported Date = Date the crime was reported to LASD Category = Incident crime category Stat = A three digit numerical coding system to identify the primary crime category for an incident Stat Desc = The definition of the statistical code number Address (last two digits of # rounded to 00) = The street number, street name, state and zip where the incident occurred Street (last two digits of # rounded to 00) = The street number and street name where the incident occurred City = The city where the incident occurred Zip = The zip code of the location where the incident occurred Incident ID = The URN #, or Uniform Report Number, is a unique # assigned to every criminal and noncriminal incident Reporting District = A geographical area defined by LASD which is within a city or unincorporated area where the incident occurred Seq = Each incident for each station is issued a unique sequence # within a given year Gang Related = Indicates if the crime incident was gang related (column added 08/02/2012) Unit ID = ORI # is a number issued by the FBI for every law enforcement agency Unit Name = Station Name Longitude (truncated to 3 decimals, equivalent to half-block rounding) (column added 01/04/2021) Latitude (truncated to 3 decimals, equivalent to half-block rounding) (column added 01/04/2021) Part Category = Part I Crime or Part II Crime indicator (replaced DELETED column 01/04/2021)

Effective March 7, 2024, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) implemented a new Records Management System aligning with the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) requirements. This switch, part of a nationwide mandate, enhances the granularity and specificity of crime data. You can learn more about NIBRS on the FBI's website here: https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/more-fbi-services-and-information/ucr/nibrs NIBRS is more comprehensive than the previous Summary Reporting System (SRS) used in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. Unlike SRS, which grouped crimes into general categories, NIBRS collects detailed information for each incident, including multiple offenses, offenders, and victims when applicable. This detail-rich format may give the impression of increased crime levels due to its broader capture of criminal activity, but it actually provides a more accurate and nuanced view of crime in our community. This change sets a new baseline for crime reporting, reflecting incidents in the City of Los Angeles starting from March 7, 2024. With NIBRS, each criminal incident may reflect multiple offenses, resulting in more robust data than before. This may change the appearance of crime frequency, as multiple offenses per incident are reported individually.