homicides15: Homicides in nine cities in 2015
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homicides15

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Homicides in nine cities in 2015

Description

Dataset containing records of homicides in nine large US cities in 2015, obtained from the Crime Open Database.

Usage

homicides15

Format

A tibble with 1,922 rows and 15 variables:

uid: an integer unique identifier for the offense
city_name: name of the city in which the crime occurred
offense_code: offense code, modified from the FBI NIBRS offense code
offense_type: offense type name
date_single: date (and, in most cases, time) of the offense
address: approximate address of the offense*
longitude: approximate longitude
latitude: approximate latitude
location_type: type of location*
location_category: category of location type*
fips_state: two-digit FIPS state code (possibly with leading zero)
fips_county: three-digit FIPS county code (possibly with leading zero)
tract: six-digit code for 2016 census tract
block_group: one-digit code for 2016 census block group
block: four-digit code for 2016 census block

Details

More details of the data format are available on the Crime Open Database website. Variables marked * are only available for some of the data, due to limitations in the data published by some cities.

The variables in this dataset mirror those obtained by calling get_crime_data(type = "core"), except that some fields have been removed because they are redundant (e.g. if they have the same value for all rows in this dataset).