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 | No | "The license for this dataset is unspecified" - No license stated in terms of service of the PG county website either for the open data portal. |
| Available in bulk | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | No | Possibly updated every Friday. Last update was Feb 23, 2018 and submission is Feb 27, 2018. |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | CSV, JSON, RDF, TSV, XML | |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | Googled for "pg county crime data" - looked at the open data portal to find crime. | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | Some incidents have Null values for Street address where there are intersections only, but coordinates are provided. |
| collector_name | Prince George’s County Police Department | Prince George’s County Police Department - stated in description. Data Provided by OIT DataWarehouse/Motorola Dataset Owner OIT DataWarehouse |
| characteristics | Date and time, Location (may be coordinates or addresses; addresses may be at the block level, such as “5XX Main Street”), Incident type | Date and Time only accurate to date since all data states 12:00:00 AM for time. Lacks Narrative information |
| location | https://data.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Public-Safety/Cr - Socrata Crime February 2017 to present - landing page, https://data.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Public-Safety/Cr - Socrata Crime February 2017 to present - data view |