For Project 3, we have the flexibility to choose datasets from the Analyze Boston site, and we’ve opted for the CRIME INCIDENT REPORTS (AUGUST 2015 – TO DATE) (SOURCE: NEW SYSTEM).
These reports, supplied by the Boston Police Department (BPD), serve to document the initial details of incidents to which BPD officers respond. The dataset originates from the new crime incident report system, featuring a streamlined set of fields concentrating on capturing incident types, along with details about when and where they occurred. The records in this system commence from June of 2015.
Key attributes in the dataset include:
- [incident_num]: Internal BPD report number
- [offense_code]: Numerical code corresponding to offense description
- [Offense_Code_Group_Description]: Internal categorization of [offense_description]
- [Offense_Description]: Primary descriptor of the incident
- [district]: District where the crime was reported
- [reporting_area] varchar NULL: RA number associated with where the crime was reported
- [shooting] char NULL: Indicates whether a shooting took place
- [occurred_on] datetime2 NULL: Earliest date and time the incident could have taken place
- [UCR_Part] varchar NULL: Universal Crime Reporting Part number (1,2, 3)
- [street] varchar NULL: Street name where the incident took place