Los Angeles Police Calls for Service in 2014

LAPD records document all calls for service incidents within the city for the year 2014. The dataset includes details such as call type, dispatch time, and location. It was published by the City of Los Angeles via data.lacity.org and last updated in November 2020.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal patterns of emergency calls using the Dispatch Date and Dispatch Time columns.
• Map incident frequency and types by neighborhood using the Area Occurred and Reporting District fields.
• Classify call priority or type by correlating Call Type Code with Call Type Description.
• Track unique incident sequences or volumes using the Incident Number field.

Strengths

• Covers a full calendar year (2014) of city-wide police activity.
• Includes multiple key dimensions: call type, time, location, and incident identifier.

Limitations

• Unknown total record count prevents assessment of statistical significance.
• Data is from 2014 and may not reflect current patterns or reporting methods.
• Accuracy is noted as dependent on the source database's state, with potential for errors.

Provenance

Source

data.lacity.org, the official open data portal for the City of Los Angeles.

Collection Method

Logged from the Los Angeles Police Department's calls for service system.

Time Range

2014

Freshness

Data reflects 2014 incidents; metadata was last updated in 2020.

Geography

City of Los Angeles, California, USA.