Cincinnati Police Officer-Involved Shooting Incidents

Over 18 columns detail officer-involved shooting incidents reported by the Cincinnati Police Department. The dataset includes firearm details, officer and subject demographics, and geocoded incident locations. It was created and published by the Cincinnati Police Department, with the last update noted in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal patterns of officer-involved shootings using the INCIDENT_DATE field.
• Examine correlations between OFFICER_RACE, SUBJECT_RACE, and incident outcomes.
• Map incident locations for spatial analysis using the geocoded LATITUDE_X and LONGITUDE_X fields, noting the documented positional skew.
• Classify incident types or severity based on textual descriptions in the INCIDENT_DESCRIPTION column.
• Study the distribution of firearm types involved in incidents using the FIREARM_MAKE and FIREARM_MODEL columns.

Strengths

• Dataset includes 18 specific columns covering incident details, demographics, and geography.
• Data has undergone standard processing including address verification and geocoding.
• Associated data dictionary provides definitions for columns and attributes.

Limitations

• Exact row count and total incident volume are unknown.
• Geographic coordinates (LATITUDE_X, LONGITUDE_X) are randomly skewed within a block, reducing locational precision.
• Data is not being updated due to a departmental system transfer, limiting temporal coverage to a static snapshot.

Provenance

Source

Cincinnati Police Department.

Collection Method

Created through internal reporting by the Cincinnati Police Department and processed by the Office of Performance and Data Analytics.

Freshness

Static; not being updated during a system transfer. Last metadata update was April 2026.

Geography

City of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.