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Django project for loading, cleaning and querying data about criminal convictions in Cook County, Illinois
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Please describe mapping steps between statutes --> violent, property, drug buckets #23

Open fgregg opened 9 years ago

fgregg commented 9 years ago

Hi guys,

Thanks for all of this awesome work. Could you help me understand how you go from statute to the violent, property, and drug crime buckets.

In particular, how do you handle cases where a statute maps onto multiple IUCR codes.

fgregg commented 9 years ago

For example, why isn't armed robbery counted as a violent crime? (IUCR 0310)

Why isn't residential burglary a property crime (IUCR 0625)

ghing commented 9 years ago

If I recall, these categories are based on a list of IUCR codes that Tracy gave us. Also, at some point we were looking at categories of index crímes, which don't include every type of crime, so perhaps your examples reflect the index crime categories? On Mar 18, 2015 12:25 AM, "Forest Gregg" notifications@github.com wrote:

For example, why isn't armed robbery counted as a violent crime? (IUCR 0310)

Why isn't residential burglary a property crime (IUCR 0625)

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