Crime Data Scraper (US Cities)

Official police incident data from US city open-data portals, normalized to one clean row shape across cities. Pick cities, optionally a crime type and date window, and get structured incidents with offense, location and arrest information. No API key, no login, no browser.

Cities covered

• Chicago, IL - full incident feed, arrest flag included (publishes about a week behind)
• New York City, NY - NYPD complaints with felony/misdemeanor class (refreshed quarterly - use 90+ day windows)
• San Francisco, CA - incident reports with neighborhood and resolution (a day or two behind)
• Seattle, WA - NIBRS offenses with block address (a day or two behind)
• Austin, TX - incident reports (about a week behind; area-level location only)
• Dallas, TX - police incidents with address and coordinates (a day or two behind)

Every city is the police department's own published dataset - the same data behind the official crime dashboards.

What you get

One row per incident:

• city, incident id, when it occurred (ISO timestamp)
• offense category and description, plus the place type (street, apartment, store...)
• block-level address, neighborhood/ward/district area, and coordinates where the city publishes them
• arrest flag and case status where available

{
    "cities": ["chicago", "san_francisco"],
    "crimeType": "BURGLARY",
    "sinceDays": 30
}

Monitor mode

Turn on newOnly, put the actor on a schedule, and each run emits only incidents it has not returned before - a fresh-incident feed for the cities and crime types you care about. Runs where nothing new arrived cost nothing.

Who uses this

• Real-estate investors and agents: neighborhood-level incident history for due diligence, straight from the source instead of a $40 report.
• Insurers and security companies: risk signals and prospecting by area and offense type.
• Journalists and researchers: structured, citable incident data across major cities without per-portal wrangling.
• Retail and operations teams: monitor incidents around store locations.

Pairs with our Building Permit Leads and Restaurant Inspection Leads - the same city-data-as-signal family.

Pricing

A small fee per incident row. Empty windows and unreachable city feeds are free note rows, and the first 2 rows of every run are free.

Notes

• Sources are official city Socrata endpoints; each row carries its source dataset URL.
• Cities publish with a lag (noted per city above), and police departments revise records after initial publication. Incident data reflects reports, not convictions.
• Addresses are block-level as published by each city; some cities redact or generalize locations for privacy.
• Los Angeles is deliberately not included: its public dataset stopped updating in 2024.