Los Angeles Police Calls for Service in 2022

2022 incident data documents calls for service handled by the Los Angeles Police Department. The dataset is provided by data.lacity.org and was last updated in January 2023. It includes details such as incident numbers, reporting areas, call types, and dispatch timestamps.

Use Cases

• Analyze call volume patterns by Area_Occ and Rpt_Dist to optimize police precinct staffing.
• Model Dispatch_Time and Dispatch_Date to predict seasonal or hourly demand for emergency services.
• Classify incident types by Call_Type_Text and Call_Type_Code for crime trend analysis and reporting.

Strengths

• Covers a full calendar year (2022) of police activity.
• Provides 7 distinct columns for incident tracking and categorization.

Limitations

• Unknown total row count prevents assessment of statistical significance.
• Data accuracy is dependent on source database entries, as noted in the description.

Provenance

Source

data.lacity.org

Collection Method

Records from Los Angeles Police Department calls for service database.

Time Range

2022

Freshness

Data reflects 2022 incidents; dataset was last updated in January 2023.

Geography

City of Los Angeles, California, USA