Context

Crime incident reports are provided by Boston Police Department (BPD) to document the initial details surrounding an incident to which BPD officers respond. This is a dataset containing records from the new crime incident report system, which includes a reduced set of fields focused on capturing the type of incident as well as when and where it occurred.

Content

Records begin in June 14, 2015 and continue to September 3, 2018.

Acknowledgements

The data is provided by Analyze Boston. The most up-to-date version can be found here.

Inspiration

What types of crimes are most common? Where are different types of crimes most likely to occur? Does the frequency of crimes change over the day? Week? Year?