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 |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:crime-incident-reports-august-2015-to-date-source-new-system
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/crime-incident-reports-august-2015-to-date-source-new-system
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/crime-incident-reports-august-2015-to-date-source-new-system.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- crime-incident-reports-august-2015-to-date-source-new-system
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |