openpolicedata 0.5.8

The OpenPoliceData (OPD) Python library is the most comprehensive centralized public access point for incident-level police data in the United States. OPD provides easy access to 383+ incident-level datasets for over 3500 police agencies. Types of data include traffic stops, use of force, officer-involved shootings, and complaints.

OpenPoliceData

The OpenPoliceData (OPD) Python library is the most comprehensive centralized public access point for incident-level police data in the United States. OPD provides easy access to 383+ incident-level datasets for over 3500 police agencies. Types of data include traffic stops, use of force, officer-involved shootings, and complaints.

Users request data by department name and type of data, and the data is returned as a pandas DataFrame. There is no need to manually find the data online or to know how to work with open data APIs (ArcGIS, Socrata, etc.).

OpenPoliceData provides access to police data with 2 simple lines of code:

> import openpolicedata as opd
> src = opd.Source("New Orleans")
> data = src.load_from_url(year=2022, table_type="USE OF FORCE")

• Documentation: https://openpolicedata.readthedocs.io/
• Source Code: https://github.com/openpolicedata/openpolicedata
• Bug Tracker: https://github.com/openpolicedata/openpolicedata/issues
• Basic Installation
• Latest Datasets
• Release Notes
• Contributing

Installation

OpenPoliceData can be installed from the Python Package Index (PyPI):

pip install openpolicedata

Latest Datasets Added to OPD

• Albany, NY: Arrests, Calls for Service, Field Contacts, Indcidents, Traffic Citations, and Use of Force
• Asheville, NC: 2022 Calls For Service
• Boulder, CO: Arrests, Crashes,and Incidents
• California: Deaths in Custody
• Chandler, AZ: Arrests, Incidents, and Calls for Service
• Chattanooga, TN: Complaints
• Chicago, IL: Pedestrian Stops
• Lincoln, NE: 2023 datasets
• New York City, NY: 2022 Pedestrian Stops
• Oakland, CA: 2022 Use of Force
• San Diego, CA: 2022 Complaints
• San Jose, CA: 2022 and 2023 Calls for Service
• Tacoma, WA: Complaints, Incidents, and Officer-Involved Shootings

Release Notes for Version 0.5.8 - 2023-09-28

Added

• Using User-Agent to enable inclusion of Chicago pedestrian stops data

Changed

• Improved speed of datetime conversion

Fixed

• Fixed issue when using load_from_url_gen with Socrata and Carto data where data needed to be sorted by data IDs in order to prevent loading a few repeated rows due to changing order of data on server
• Fixed error thrown when dataset has date field but that column is not returned because the rows requested are all empty

Complete change log available at: https://github.com/openpolicedata/openpolicedata/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Contributing

All contributions are welcome including code enhancments, bug fixes, bug reports, documentation updates, and locating new datasets. If you're interesting in helping out, see our Contributing Guide or reach out by email.