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HackLB's Data Liberation Front
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Realtime crime data #1

Open rogerhoward opened 7 years ago

rogerhoward commented 7 years ago

Gain access to LBPD (and LASD and other local LE?) realtime and historical crime data.

The "LBPD" mobile app available for both iOS and Android is developed by MobilePD. Previous projects by several local developers sought to access the same data GoMobilePD uses - initial analysis showed that the data used by this app could be accessed as a XML-based API at the following uri: http://api.ezaxess.com/v2/pd/longbeach/crimes/all

This data feed - and the LBPD mobile apps - no longer appears to be functional. The HackLB DLF would love to find another source for this data - ideally, directly from the city - as crime data is of deep interest to many city stakeholders.

https://github.com/HackLB/crime-statistics created for this purpose.

rogerhoward commented 7 years ago

OpenLB provides aggregate data for crimes in several categories in PDF format:

http://www.longbeach.gov/police/crime-info/crime-statistics/

Consider as first action, scraping these files (eg., PDFMine) to generate usable data files.