SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Police Department Monday announced the launch of a new public-information website that offers "snapshots" of information on crimes committed across the city in near-real time.
The SDPD Neighborhood Crime Summary Dashboard contains three tabs that allow the public to visualize crime trends and categories, and map clusters of incident locations. Each category can be accessed either at its citywide level or filtered down to an individual neighborhood.
One of the tabs on the dashboard is the Crime Data Explorer, designed for users who want to filter and compare data across neighborhoods and crime categories. The information may be filtered by date range, policing division, neighborhood or specific type of crime. While the underlying data is not yet accessible on the city's open data portal, it is scheduled to be available soon.
The goal of the online site is to make it easier for residents to learn about crimes occurring in San Diego. The data, which is updated daily, contains no identifying information about victims, suspects or exact locations of crimes. A short tutorial video can be found on the SDPD's YouTube channel.
In 2021, the San Diego Police Department began reporting to the National Incident Based Reporting System for statistics. NIBRS collects data on all offenses reported to law enforcement agencies, breaking it down into the subsets of crimes against people, such as assault and homicide; against property, as in burglary, theft, robbery and the like; and against society, including alcohol and drug offenses, weapon-related crimes and illegal gambling. The categories are a shift from the older FBI reporting style of simply documenting violent- and property-crime counts.
Historical data will still be posted online in annual crime reports. Downloadable information will be made available on the city's Open Data Portal, according to the SDPD.
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