readme.md

In ctesta01/ChicagoGunCrimes: Chicago Gun Crimes Data

Chicago Gun Crimes R Package

This repository is an R package that contains the data from a Gun Crimes Heat Map web page on the Chicago Data Portal website. At present, the data contains 111,076 records of gun crimes in Chicago.

The records include dates, descriptions, latitude, longitude, community area, district, ward, type of crime (Illinois Uniform Crime Reporting (IUCR) codes, FBI code, etc.), arrest outcome, and more.

Source web page: https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Gun-Crimes-Heat-Map/iinq-m3rg

Web archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20211023151738/https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Gun-Crimes-Heat-Map/iinq-m3rg

Data in this package were last updated in this package October 23, 2021. Data from the original URL are updated daily Tuesday through Sunday and more recent data are likely available directly from the Chicago Data Portal website.

Detailed documentation for each of the fields is accessible on the Socrata API documentation page for this dataset: https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.cityofchicago.org/iinq-m3rg

Usage

devtools::install_github("ctesta01/ChicagoGunCrimes")
library(ChicagoGunCrimes)
data(ChicagoGunCrimes)

Details from the Chicago Data Portal Website

This dataset reflects reported incidents of crime (with the exception of murders where data exists for each victim) that occurred in the City of Chicago from 2001 to present, minus the most recent seven days. Data is extracted from the Chicago Police Department's CLEAR (Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting) system. In order to protect the privacy of crime victims, addresses are shown at the block level only and specific locations are not identified. Should you have questions about this dataset, you may contact the Research & Development Division of the Chicago Police Department at 312.745.6071 or [e-mail]. Disclaimer: These crimes may be based upon preliminary information supplied to the Police Department by the reporting parties that have not been verified. The preliminary crime classifications may be changed at a later date based upon additional investigation and there is always the possibility of mechanical or human error. Therefore, the Chicago Police Department does not guarantee (either expressed or implied) the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or correct sequencing of the information and the information should not be used for comparison purposes over time. The Chicago Police Department will not be responsible for any error or omission, or for the use of, or the results obtained from the use of this information. All data visualizations on maps should be considered approximate and attempts to derive specific addresses are strictly prohibited. The Chicago Police Department is not responsible for the content of any off-site pages that are referenced by or that reference this web page other than an official City of Chicago or Chicago Police Department web page. The user specifically acknowledges that the Chicago Police Department is not responsible for any defamatory, offensive, misleading, or illegal conduct of other users, links, or third parties and that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with the user. The unauthorized use of the words "Chicago Police Department," "Chicago Police," or any colorable imitation of these words or the unauthorized use of the Chicago Police Department logo is unlawful. This web page does not, in any way, authorize such use. Data is updated daily Tuesday through Sunday. The dataset contains more than 65,000 records/rows of data and cannot be viewed in full in Microsoft Excel. Therefore, when downloading the file, select CSV from the Export menu. Open the file in an ASCII text editor, such as Wordpad, to view and search. To access a list of Chicago Police Department - Illinois Uniform Crime Reporting (IUCR) codes, go to http://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Chicago-Police-Department-Illinois-Uniform-Crime-R/c7ck-438e

ctesta01/ChicagoGunCrimes documentation built on Dec. 19, 2021, 7:01 p.m.