Dataset
Crime Incident Reports (July 2012 - August 2015) (Source: Legacy System)
Crime incident reports are provided by Boston Police Department (BPD) to document the initial details surrounding an incident to which BPD officers respond. This is a dataset containing records from a legacy crime incident report system, which includes multiple fields capturing when, where, and…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Police Department
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 20
- Keywords
- crime, incidents, legacy portal, police, safety
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/crime-incident-reports-july-2012-august-2015-source-legacy-system
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 | 46205870 | 283ca34558f0241194c4e44465a569f6a791f9ca62283dbffcd2097d8f5f5c8d | source |
| XLSX | referenced | 12924 | 6aca0ee6b3b73cf2869243d501fa6c6332f260211d887a0e91c5ee9db8812fb3 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
COMPNOS | text | |
NatureCode | text | |
INCIDENT_TYPE_DESCRIPTION | text | |
MAIN_CRIMECODE | text | |
REPTDISTRICT | text | |
REPORTINGAREA | text | |
FROMDATE | text | |
WEAPONTYPE | text | |
Shooting | text | |
DOMESTIC | text | |
SHIFT | text | |
Year | text | |
Month | text | |
DAY_WEEK | text | |
UCRPART | text | |
X | text | |
Y | text | |
STREETNAME | text | |
XSTREETNAME | text | |
Location | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:crime-incident-reports-july-2012-august-2015-source-legacy-system
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/crime-incident-reports-july-2012-august-2015-source-legacy-system
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/crime-incident-reports-july-2012-august-2015-source-legacy-system.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
- crime-incident-reports-july-2012-august-2015-source-legacy-system
- 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 |