Where will you be offered narcotics in Chicago? Or, where do cops go to do undercover busts.
Crime incident reports are gathered by the Chicago Police Department. The time range spans from 2001 through 2018. The data is from data.cityofchicago.org.
Incident descriptors used:
NARCOTICS – Primary Type
SOLICIT NARCOTICS ON PUBLICWAY – Description
A decline in publicway narcotic solicitations or enforcement can be noticed around 2008.
A look into downtown Chicago’s purse snatching and pocket picking. The data was gathered by the Chicago Police Department, and filtered by crime incident descriptor. Data is from here data.cityofchicago.org. Carto was used to create the maps below. The time range is from 2001 through 2018.
Data is from https://data.cityofchicago.org. Chicago police department’s crime incident reports were filtered to contain descriptors of Aggravated Handgun, and Armed Handgun. Maps were rendered using Carto.
Visualizing the decline of Chicago prostitution from the eyes of the police department. The time range used spans from 2001 through 2017. The data was filtered from data.cityofchicago.org. Below is a Torque/Geo Temporal Map which animates over time using 67,690 total incident reports, each report with a primary crime type of prostitution. Beneath that is a cumulative heat map. And lastly, a map created attempting to show the migration of enforcement over years.
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Attempting to visualize the chaotic migrations of CPD’s heroin related incident reports.
The heat and geo-temporal maps below represent Chicago Police Department’s primary crime type of narcotics, and a description containing heroin. The date range is 2001 through June 2017. Dataset downloaded from data.cityofchicago.org.
17 years of illegal gambling in Chicago.
A look into Chicago Police Department’s history of Gambling related incident reports. The data came from https://data.cityofchicago.org
Curious as to what caused the decline over the last 17 years. Are people gambling less, or are police enforcing less?
Heat Map
Type Map (Click to enlarge)
A look into School Profile Information for the school year of 2016/2017.
Data set from Chicago Data Portal
School profile information for all schools in the Chicago Public School district for the school year 2016-2017.
Filter conditions used:
ACT vs Total Students By School Type
ACT vs Total Students By Majority Dmeographic
Maps (Click for Full Size)
A look into Chicago Police Department’s gun related incident reports from January 2008 through February 2016. The data is from data.cityofchicago.org.
Stacked bar chart of monthly incidents by primary type.
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Line chart of monthly incidents by primary type.
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Static Map
Animated Map
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Comparing the difference between Sale vs. Possession within CPD heroin related incident reports.
The data is from data.cityofchicago.org
The following Narcotics descriptions were included in this comparison
Below are two static maps and a video (click for higher resolution).
A look into the primary crime type of WEAPONS VIOLATION from Chicago’s crime dataset on data.cityofchicago.org. Primary Type of weapons violation includes such descriptions as; DEFACE IDENT MARKS OF FIREARM, POSS FIREARM/AMMO:NO FOID CARD, RECKLESS FIREARM DISCHARGE, UNLAWFUL POSS OF HANDGUN, and others.
