Daily updated records of individuals arrested by police officers in Montgomery County, Maryland. The data includes a flag indicating whether the arrest location is within 500 feet of a school. The dataset is published by Montgomery County of Maryland and was last updated on March 22, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyzing arrest density and patterns relative to school locations based on the school proximity flag.
- Training models to identify factors associated with arrests near educational institutions based on the described features.
- Monitoring daily law enforcement activity trends in a specific county based on the update frequency.
- Assessing public safety policy impacts by correlating arrest data with school zone regulations.
Strengths
- Update frequency is daily, suggesting potential for near-real-time analysis.
- Includes a specific, policy-relevant feature: a flag for arrests within 500 feet of a school.
- Data is sourced directly from the authoritative local government organization, Montgomery County of Maryland.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
- Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single county's law enforcement records.
Provenance
- Source
- Montgomery County of Maryland
- Collection Method
- Likely collected from official police arrest records.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Daily
- Geography
- Montgomery County, Maryland, USA