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 | CC-BY |
| Available in bulk | Yes | Data added to an archive after 30 days. |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | CSV | |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | Searched using keyword on open data portal | |
| licence_url | https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/uniform-crime-reporting- | Metadata includes license |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 3 | |
| collector_name | City of Pittsburgh Police Bureau, Department of Public Safety | |
| 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 | href="https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/police-incident-blotter" https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/police-incident-blotter">rel="nofollow">https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/police-incident-blotter - Western PA Regional Data Center, href="https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/uniform-crime-reporting-data" https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/uniform-crime-reporting-">rel="nofollow">https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/uniform-crime-reporting- - Western PA Regional Data Center |
