Crime & Justice datasets

Federal disaster declarations by state, type, and year since 1953. Includes major disasters (DR), emergencies (EM), and fire management (FM) declarations. From FEMA OpenFEMA API.

Every person and entity sanctioned by the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), including cartel leaders designated under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Act. Covers sanctions programs for narcotics trafficking (SDNTK, SDNT), terrorism, weapons proliferation, and more. Updated daily. Includes primary entity records, addresses, aliases, and extended remarks across four linked files joined by entity number. The SDN list is the US government's primary tool for economic sanctions enforcement.

Bureau of Justice Statistics NIBRS (National Incident-Based Reporting System) national estimates for violent crimes against persons. Includes incident counts, weapon involvement, injury details, and victim/offender characteristics based on data reported by law enforcement agencies.

Fentanyl seizure data from DHS (CBP + ICE) disruption operations covering FY2023-2024. Includes fentanyl weight (lbs), pill press seizures, US currency, and personal property seized. Broken down by fiscal year, month, and US region (Southwest, North, Southeast, OCONUS). Note: the source URL contains a date stamp (2025-04) and will change when DHS posts updates.

Global drug seizure data (2015-2023) from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime World Drug Report statistical annexes (2021 and 2025 editions). Covers 100+ countries with seizure quantities in kilograms broken down by drug group, subgroup, and specific drug name. Tracks how fentanyl and synthetic opioids have spread globally, not just in North America. Note: annex URLs are version-specific and will need updating when the next edition publishes.

Bureau of Justice Statistics NIBRS national estimates for property crimes including burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and vandalism. Based on data reported by law enforcement agencies under the National Incident-Based Reporting System.

Country-level criminality and resilience scores (1-10) from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Covers 193 countries across three editions (2021, 2023, 2025) with scores for 10+ criminal markets (drug trade, human trafficking, arms, cyber crime, financial crimes), 5 criminal actor types (mafia-style, networks, state-embedded, foreign, private sector), and 12 resilience measures (judicial system, law enforcement, transparency, prevention). Useful for contextualizing where countries sit in the global drug trade and which have the lowest capacity to respond.

Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) incident records from the Austin Police Department, January 2017 to present with continuous updates. Nearly 4 million records including response times, priority levels, mental health flags, unit counts, and disposition. Covers all dispatched incidents across APD sectors and council districts.

Traffic crash records from the TxDOT CRIS (Crash Records Information System) database, rolling 10-year window from 2010 to present. Approximately 228,000 records with fatality and injury counts broken out by mode (pedestrian, cyclist, motorcycle, motor vehicle). Includes crash severity, speed limit, and location data. This is the Vision Zero dataset.

Real-time traffic incident reports from the City of Austin, sourced from Austin-Travis County public safety agencies via the Combined Transportation, Emergency, and Communications Center (CTECC). Includes crashes, stalled vehicles, hazards, and other traffic events with geolocation, status, and responding agency.

Crime incident reports from the Austin Police Department from 2003 to present, updated weekly. Over 2.6 million records with offense descriptions, location type, clearance status, council district, APD sector, and family violence indicators. Only the most serious offense per incident is included. Classified using FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) categories.

Arrest records from the Austin Police Department, January 2020 to present. Includes arrest type, charges, demographics (race/ethnicity, gender), warrant and cite-and-release flags, and geographic identifiers. Approximately 119,000 records updated weekly.

311 service requests from six major California cities - Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Oakland, Sacramento and San Jose - normalized to a common schema with a city column. Each row is one service request: city, category, status, submission channel, location, and open/close timestamps. Coverage differs by city (SF from 2008, Oakland from 2013, San Diego from 2016, Sacramento 2016 to April 2020, San Jose from 2017, Los Angeles 2025), so compare rates within a city over time rather than counts across cities. Built from the six per-city datasets listed under inputs; see each for its own cadence and caveats.

Annual arrest counts across California, broken out by county, gender, race/ethnicity, and age group, published by the California Department of Justice's OpenJustice transparency initiative. Every row is one year/gender/race/age-group/county combination, covering all 58 counties across 45 years (1980-2024). Counts split into three severity tiers - felony (`f_total`, further broken into `f_drugoff` drug offenses, `f_sexoff` sex offenses, and `f_allother` everything else), misdemeanor (`m_total`), and status offense (`s_total`, juvenile-only violations like truancy and curfew) - plus two felony/misdemeanor crime-type subtotals, `violent` and `property`, that cut across the severity tiers rather than nesting inside them. Race/ethnicity uses DOJ's four published categories (Black, Hispanic, White, Other); Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native American arrestees are folded into "Other" rather than broken out separately, a DOJ reporting convention rather than an ingest choice. Age groups are DOJ's standard bands: Under 18, 18 to 19, 20 to 29, 30 to 39, 40 to 69, and 70 and over. These are counts of arrest events, not unique individuals - a person arrested twice in a year appears twice.

County-level criminal justice performance data for California's 58 counties, 2009-2020, from Measures for Justice (MFJ). Covers 42 standardized measures spanning the full case pipeline from arrest through post-conviction (prosecution, case resolution, sentencing, recidivism), broken down by defendant demographics (race, sex, age, indigency status, and charge type) using measure_id/filter_id/location_id reference codes. Only single-year files are ingested; MFJ's overlapping multi-year aggregate files (e.g. 2009-2013) are excluded to avoid double-counting.

MyLA311 service requests submitted to the City of Los Angeles in 2025, covering everything from bulky item pickups and illegal dumping to graffiti removal, streetlight outages, and homeless encampment reports. Each record has the request type, responsible department (owner), status, submission channel, address, ZIP code, coordinates, and City Council district. The City of Los Angeles publishes a separate MyLA311 dataset for each calendar year back to 2015; this dataset tracks the current (2025) year, which updates daily.

School-level data on referrals to law enforcement and school-related arrests from the U.S. Department of Education's Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC). Covers all public K-12 schools nationwide, collected biennially. Includes counts by race/ethnicity and sex for students without disabilities (WODIS columns). The full Referrals and Arrests file also has IDEA disability and LEP/504 breakdowns -- those are not surfaced here. This is the primary dataset for school-to-prison pipeline research. Racial disparities in referral and arrest rates are federally tracked civil rights indicators. Join on COMBOKEY to ed/crdc-enrollment to compute rates per 100 students enrolled. Values of -9 indicate suppressed or inapplicable data.

Annual estimated crime counts and population for the United States and all 50 states plus DC, from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program Summary Reporting System (SRS). Covers murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, rape (both the legacy and FBI's 2013-revised definitions), robbery, aggravated assault, and violent crime totals, plus property crime (burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft). These are the FBI's official national estimates -- the basis for the "violent crime rate" figures widely cited in media and policy. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer bulk download "estimated_crimes_1979_2025.csv" (an XLSX file despite the .csv name), fetched live via the CDE's signed-URL API. No official national row is published for 2017-2020 in this file; sum the 50 states + DC for those years to get national totals (verified to match the published national totals in other years exactly). Coverage starts in 1979 because that is what the FBI's current bulk estimates file covers; the FBI's original UCR data back to 1960 exists only in raw ASCII master files not published in modern tabular form on the Crime Data Explorer.

Federal Election Commission enforcement actions (Matters Under Review / MURs), exploded to one row per respondent named in the case. Each row carries the case number, case name, open/close dates, the individual respondent's name, the case's representative disposition and total penalty, and violation subject categories. A companion `linked` view resolves each respondent name to a committee ID or candidate ID by exact-name join against `fec/committees` and `fec/candidates`, where those names match. IMPORTANT LIMITATION: the FEC legal/search API does not return a structured committee_id or candidate_id on MUR respondents -- only free-text names. The `linked` view's name-based join resolves a real but partial subset of rows; it is not a substitute for a source-provided foreign key. See the `column_descriptions` for `respondent_name` and the `linked` view for details.

County-level jail and state prison populations, admissions, and demographic breakdowns (race, sex) for nearly every U.S. county from 1970 to 2026, compiled by the Vera Institute of Justice from the BJS Census of Jails, Annual Survey of Jails, National Corrections Reporting Program, and supplemental state/local sources. Includes population denominators and incarceration rates per 100,000 residents ages 15-64. The six unified- corrections states (AK, CT, DE, HI, RI, VT) have no separate county jails and are excluded from this file. Complements bjs/prisoners, which covers only national and state-level prison populations.