Crime Incident Reports (August 2015 - To Date) (Source: New System)

The Boston Archive

Dataset

Crime Incident Reports (August 2015 - To Date) (Source: New System)

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…

Dataset

Publisher: Boston Police Department
Spatial coverage: all
Fields: 17
Keywords: crime, incidents, police, safety
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/crime-incident-reports-august-2015-to-date-source-new-system

Artifacts

“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.

Format	Preservation	Size	Digest	Source
CSV	unavailable	35870	`—`	source
CSV	preserved	13201623	`7027effcee653265154d6758b1a5867f69659e34b8301549fe718ba389e41bd6`	source
CSV	preserved	12941444	`04b50b4876d746d49683ab22e8c35e9241839d12268fdb0405597094d3e0d8ed`	source
CSV	preserved	12626067	`25a54ca00b8513f526e02e97c5b05ce7db0638603d2d77cbcb9b3757aa0abac4`	source
CSV	referenced	3585876	`—`	source
CSV	referenced	17872313	`—`	source
CSV	referenced	18246117	`—`	source
CSV	referenced	17892322	`—`	source
CSV	referenced	9734104	`—`	source
XLSX	referenced	—	`—`	source
XLSX	referenced	—	`—`	source

Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

Column	Type	Description
`INCIDENT_NUMBER`	text
`OFFENSE_CODE`	text
`OFFENSE_CODE_GROUP`	text
`OFFENSE_DESCRIPTION`	text
`DISTRICT`	text
`REPORTING_AREA`	text
`SHOOTING`	text
`OCCURRED_ON_DATE`	text
`YEAR`	text
`MONTH`	text
`DAY_OF_WEEK`	text
`HOUR`	text
`UCR_PART`	text
`STREET`	text
`Lat`	text
`Long`	text
`Location`	text

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/03a146f6eea0261628f9471c8482f811/crime-incident-reports-august-2015-to-date-source-new-system-columns.json — 1486 bytes, SHA-256 03a146f6eea02616…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

Who publishes Crime Incident Reports (August 2015 - To Date) (Source: New System), and under what license?

Boston Police Department publishes it. The archive accessioned it under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain), and holds the publisher's own column dictionary verbatim rather than reworded into the archive's vocabulary — how a publisher names a column is evidence about the publisher.