Public crime records for Los Angeles, built on official LAPD open data.
What is CaliCrime?
CaliCrime is a public information site that makes official Los Angeles Police Department
crime records accessible and searchable. We ingest data directly from the
Los Angeles City Open Data Portal
and present it organized by neighborhood, crime type, and time period.
Our goal is to make public safety data easier to find and understand—not to make
editorial judgments about crime or safety. All records come from official government
sources and are presented as-is.
Data Sources
We draw from three official LAPD datasets published on the City of Los Angeles Open Data Portal:
LAPD Crime Data (UCR era, 2020–Oct 2024) —
Reported crime incidents under the legacy Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system.
This dataset is frozen and no longer updated.
LAPD NIBRS Offenses (Oct 2024–present) —
Reported crime incidents under the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS),
which LAPD adopted in late 2024. This is the active dataset for current incidents.
LAPD Calls for Service —
Dispatch records from the Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) system. These are
calls received by LAPD, not confirmed crimes. Shown separately on police
activity pages.
All data is sourced under
Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0)
from the City of Los Angeles. CaliCrime is not affiliated with LAPD or any government agency.
Methodology
Coverage: January 2020 to present, City of Los Angeles only.
Geography: Incidents are mapped to the 21 LAPD area divisions (Hollywood, Central, 77th Street, etc.) as reported in the source data. These divisions are LAPD operational boundaries, not city-defined neighborhoods.
Updates: Data is ingested daily from the LAPD Open Data Portal. New incidents may take 24–72 hours to appear after LAPD records them.
Deduplication: Records are matched to their source system's unique identifier. When LAPD updates an existing record (e.g. to correct a date or classification), we update the record rather than duplicate it.
Crime categories: We map LAPD's NIBRS offense codes and UCR crime codes to our own broader categories (Assault, Theft, Robbery, etc.) for consistent filtering across both dataset eras.
Important Limitations
Data reflects reported crimes only. Many crimes go unreported.
A record does not imply guilt, arrest, or conviction.
LAPD may amend or reclassify records after initial entry. Our data reflects the most recent version from the source.
Geographic coordinates are block-level approximations, not precise addresses.
Calls for service (dispatch records) represent calls received, not confirmed criminal activity.
Contact & Corrections
CaliCrime reflects data as published by the City of Los Angeles. We cannot correct
individual records—please contact LAPD directly for record corrections through the
official channels. If you notice a technical error on this site, you can reach us
by email.