U.S. City Open Data Census
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Open crime data helps communities make informed judgements about public safety, as well as providing transparency into how local police power is being exercised. For U.S. City Open Data Census purposes, crime report data should include at a minimum the following elements: date, time, location, incident type, and narrative information — best would be exact date, location, and type of crime, but per day per street or postal/zip code are acceptable for Census purposes. (More info)
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licensed | Yes | |
| Available in bulk | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | No | Data is updated weekly due to issues in data cleanliness. Once those are solved, will be updated daily. |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | CSV, RDF, TSV, XLS, XML | |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | Went to data.littlerock.gov, clicked Safe City tile and the datset was featured at top of the page. | |
| licence_url | https://data.littlerock.gov/Safe-City/Little-Rock-Polic | Listed as Public Domain in Metadata |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 3 | |
| collector_name | City of Little Rock Police Department | |
| characteristics | Date and time, Location (may be coordinates or addresses; addresses may be at the block level, such as “5XX Main Street”), Incident type, Narrative information | |
| location | https://data.littlerock.gov/Safe-City/Little-Rock-Polic - Part 1 Offenses for Little Rock 2017-2018YTD, https://data.littlerock.gov/Safe-City/Little-Rock-Polic - Part 1 Offenses for Little Rock 2015 (different format), https://data.littlerock.gov/Safe-City/Little-Rock-Polic - Archived copy of 2017-2018 Part 1 Offenses that included Arsons. |