Los Angeles Police Calls for Service in 2023

LAPD Calls for Service 2023 contains records of calls for service incidents within the City of Los Angeles for the year 2023. The dataset is published by data.lacity.org and was last updated in January 2024. It includes details such as call type, dispatch date and time, and incident location.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal patterns of emergency calls using the Dispatch_Date and Dispatch_Time columns.
• Identify high-frequency call types and their geographic distribution by joining Call_Type_Text with Area_Occ.
• Model demand for police services by predicting Call_Type_Code from time and location features like Rpt_Dist.
• Track incident reporting and response workflows using the unique Incident_Number as a key.

Strengths

• Data covers a full calendar year (2023) of police activity.
• Includes 7 distinct columns detailing call type, location, and timing.

Limitations

• Unknown total row count prevents assessment of statistical significance.
• Geographic coverage is limited to the City of Los Angeles, not the broader metropolitan area.
• Data accuracy is noted as being only as reliable as the source database, with no independent verification mentioned.

Provenance

Source

data.lacity.org

Collection Method

Records from the Los Angeles Police Department's calls for service database.

Time Range

2023

Freshness

Data was last updated on 2024-01-30.

Geography

City of Los Angeles, California, USA