Dataset
BPD Firearm Recovery Counts
This dataset provides daily counts of firearms recovered by Boston Police Department since August 20, 2014. Recovery totals are provided for three distinct channels: crime, voluntary surrender, and gun buyback programs.
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Police Department
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 4
- Keywords
- crime, firearms, guns, police, safety
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/boston-police-department-firearm-recovery-counts
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | referenced | 62733 | 547967aeb7ce634ba732b985249b8a8e34dbe14f3d066e7c056feeca06690a2f | source |
| referenced | 30569 | 490b3e05177dadfe4fbf13a2a83e3534f6b1d43474b9ce9dde29b5700169384f | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
collection_date | text | |
crime_guns_recovered | text | |
guns_recovered_safeguard | text | |
buyback_guns_recovered | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:boston-police-department-firearm-recovery-counts
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/boston-police-department-firearm-recovery-counts
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/boston-police-department-firearm-recovery-counts.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- boston-police-department-firearm-recovery-counts
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |