The ChicagoPublicSafety DataHub includes a CommunityAreaMap. Users can explore rates of shootings, homicides, and violent crimes for a specific time period and community area and compare the numbers to other community areas in the city.
Visualize and query crime data by an Address, Police District or Beat, Ward, Community Area and near a School or Park. The most current data is from seven days prior to the current date.
By mapping the distribution of violent crimes and demographic data and identifying trends across Chicago’sCommunityAreas, we can track our success and inform future public safety strategies.
· Developed through years of collaboration with localcommunity stakeholders and the ChicagoPolice Department, the toolkit offers detailed, actionable guidance for agencies nationwide seeking to transform their approach to public safety through neighborhood-based, relationship-driven policing.
Communitypolicing likely benefits from formally codifying and trackingcommunity problems, assets, and events – and from other types of centralized, department-wide coordination or administration.
ChicagoCrime Viewer helps people find maps of crime in Chicago for a better understanding of neighborhood issues and trends. Quick access to this authoritative information supports real estate, commuting, and situational awareness decision making across the City of Chicago.
ICAM gave CPD its most sophisticated mapping tool to date as it incorporated CPD crime data and complaints from residents into a map with churches, liquor stores, schools, and other notable community buildings, institutions, and gathering points.
