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 | Broken out by year 2003-2018, or there is a Download All option. |
| Up-to-date | Yes | Updated nightly, and the data has a 3 day lag as it gets processed internally and then made available for release. |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | CSV | |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | A Google search for "louisville crime data" brings it up as the first result. Searching for "crime" or "crime reports" on the open data site brings it up on the first page. | |
| licence_url | https://data.louisvilleky.gov/louisville-metro-governme | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | Data is at the block level but does not include latitude and longitude. Mapping requires geocoding at the block level which can be challenging to new users. The city is working to include fuzzed lat/lon. |
| collector_name | LMPD as part of Louisville Metro | |
| 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 is not included because of privacy concerns, and narratives also could include social security, credit card, birth dates, names and more that would have to be scrubbed. |
| location | https://data.louisvilleky.gov/dataset/crime-data - Data goes from 2002-2018 updated nightly. |
