openoakland/crime-metadata-survey

examples of crime data published by various police departments

openoakland

This is a Github page, so check out the gh-pages branch

crime-metadata-survey's Issues

Suggestion

Let's create a list of cities we have already looked and struck out so we are not duplicating effort. What's most useful - a markdown file in the main folder or add to the current readme folder? Thanks to John for all the good ideas I'm writing here.

San Diego Data

2007-2013: http://data.sandiegodata.org/dataset/clarinova_com-crime-incidents-casnd-7ba4-extract

ARJIS 180 Archives: http://data.sandiegodata.org/dataset/raw-san-diego-county-crime-incidents-2013

ARJIS 180 day source: http://www.sandag.org/index.asp?projectid=446&fuseaction=projects.detail

Spotcrime national data

Spotcrime releases the data it scrapes from other agency websites:

http://blog.spotcrime.com/2012/12/spotcrime-historical-crime-data-still.html

oakland crime primary key

we need to investigate if hashing ['CaseNumber', 'Description', 'PoliceBeat', 'CrimeType'] from the oakland FTP crime data is a valid way to get a unique ID

cc @rbelew