Tempe Police Calls for Service Records 2017-2021

Police service request records from the Tempe Police Department, covering the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) reporting period from 2017 to 2021. The dataset consolidates dispatched and self-initiated calls for service, including patrol, traffic, and bike officer responses. Data is provided in multiple formats including CSV and GeoJSON.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal patterns in police dispatch activity using the reported time range of 2017-2021.
• Map the geographic distribution of service requests using the provided GeoJSON or KML file formats.
• Compare dispatched versus self-initiated call volumes across the five-year UCR reporting period.
• Examine trends in public safety response types prior to the department's 2022 transition to NIBRS.

Strengths

• Covers a five-year time range (2017-2021) of police activity.
• Data is provided in multiple interoperable formats including CSV, GeoJSON, and KML.
• Records are consolidated from both dispatched and officer self-initiated calls for service.

Limitations

• Column names and schema are unknown, complicating direct analysis.
• Sample data and row count are unavailable, preventing assessment of dataset scale.
• Data uses the older UCR Summary Reporting System, which offers less detail than the NIBRS system adopted in 2022.

Provenance

Source

City of Tempe Police Department.

Collection Method

Consolidated records of police service requests.

Time Range

2017 to 2021.

Freshness

Data was last updated in March 2026, but the records themselves cover 2017-2021.

Geography

City of Tempe, Arizona.