UCPD Incident Tracking
This project was undertaken with the goal of showing a more granular picture of incidents posted on
the UCPD Incident Report page.
If you would like to download all the scraped UCPD Data, click here: Link
The core parts of this project are listed below:
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The Maroon Launches the UChicago Police Department Incident Reporter: Link
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UChicago Police Department Incident Reporter: Link
The current analysis of the incident data is listed below:
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A map of incidents that took place over the last 30 days: Link
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A searchable and filterable table that shows all incidents from the last 365 days: Link
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A drilldown bar chart that allows you to see the type of events that happen at a given hour in a given season
based on data from 2011 to the most recently completed year: Link
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A bar chart showing all incident types that occurred more than 20 times within the last
365 days: Link
Parts of this application are used in the following articles:
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Three Students Robbed Near Campus, Blue Light Near Incident Broken: Link
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University Officials Float Further Lyft Ride Cuts in Webinar Following Robberies: Link
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UCPD Apprehends Grey Kia and Suspect Involved in String of Robberies: Link
The code for this project is stored in two places:
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The UCPD incident web scraper: Link
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The FastAPI application for data display: Link
For more information on this project or any inquiries related to the
author, please reach out to me over email at:
michplunkett[at]gmail[dot]com