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:

• The Maroon Launches the UChicago Police Department Incident Reporter: Link
• UChicago Police Department Incident Reporter: Link

The current analysis of the incident data is listed below:

• A map of incidents that took place over the last 30 days: Link
• A searchable and filterable table that shows all incidents from the last 365 days: Link
• 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
• 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:

• Three Students Robbed Near Campus, Blue Light Near Incident Broken: Link
• University Officials Float Further Lyft Ride Cuts in Webinar Following Robberies: Link
• UCPD Apprehends Grey Kia and Suspect Involved in String of Robberies: Link

The code for this project is stored in two places:

• The UCPD incident web scraper: Link
• 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