Los Angeles Police Department Calls for Service in 2016

Call records document incidents requiring police response across Los Angeles during 2016. The dataset includes call type descriptions, dispatch times, and geographic area codes. It was published by the City of Los Angeles via its open data portal.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal patterns of emergency calls using the Dispatch Date and Dispatch Time columns.
• Model the distribution of call types (Call Type Description, Call Type Code) across different Reporting Districts.
• Correlate incident frequency (Incident Number) with geographic areas (Area Occurred) for hotspot mapping.

Strengths

• Covers a full calendar year of police activity (2016).
• Provides multiple key data fields per record, including call type, time, date, and location identifiers.

Limitations

• The dataset's size and row count are unknown, limiting assessment of statistical power.
• Data is from a single year (2016), which may not reflect current trends.
• Accuracy is stated as dependent on the source database's quality, with no independent verification noted.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Logs from the Los Angeles Police Department's call dispatch system.

Time Range

2016

Freshness

Last updated in November 2020, but the data itself covers only 2016.

Geography

City of Los Angeles, California, USA.