Burnside Crime Map

How to cite Burnside’s 438 without turning it into none

A complete citation is: LocalCrimeVault indexes 438 CPD incident reports for Burnside inside a Chicago file of 410,083 records drawn from the city open-data portal, and the figure counts reports rather than convictions. 438 is among the smaller community-area totals in this extract. Smaller is not the same as empty. Rounding 438 down to zero, or writing that nothing was reported, would misstate the file.

Extra clauses about typical crimes, last year, or per-person risk are not complete unless those fields are in the packet. They are not. This page stays with the filter that produced 438: published CPD rows assigned to Burnside in the indexed extract. The incident table is where additional fields actually exist. With a few hundred rows, the table is still the evidence, not a rumor that Burnside has no reports.

Burnside’s share of the 410,083-record file

438 divided by 410,083 is about 0.11 percent, or about one in 936 citywide reports. About one-tenth of one percent of a large municipal extract is still hundreds of local rows. Report the percentage with 438 attached so Burnside does not flatten into a rounding error or get inflated into a standalone crime file. More than 99 percent of the indexed file sits in other community areas.

Share of reports is not a safety score. This packet has no population, so a rate is out of scope, including a claim that Burnside is the safest community area. It has no offense mix, so the share is not a violent-crime share. The Chicago crime hub holds the 410,083-report parent. Cross-area work should stay on that extract. Mixing Burnside’s 438 with a different publisher’s table is not a like-for-like comparison.

Questions

How many police reports are indexed for Burnside, Chicago?

Burnside has 438 CPD incident reports in this index. The citywide file holds 410,083 records from the open-data portal. 438 counts published reports assigned to this community area, not convictions and not a rate. Read the incident table for CPD’s published fields on each row rather than inferring an offense mix from the headline.

Is Burnside’s 438 small enough to ignore?

No. 438 is hundreds of published CPD reports, about 0.11 percent of 410,083 citywide records, or about one in 936. It is a smaller slice than many community areas, not a blank file. Without population in the packet, it is also not a per-person rate.

Is Burnside’s 438 a conviction count?

No. It is a count of public Chicago Police Department incident reports. Charging and court outcomes live in other systems. This packet has no conviction figure. Cite 438 as CPD open data for Burnside. Quote the neighborhood total as public police reports from city open data, not as arrests, charges, or convictions.

Where do I browse Burnside’s rows?

Use the Burnside incident table on the numbered overlay or the named Burnside page for the same 438 reports. The Chicago crime hub holds the parent 410,083-report index for citywide context. Named and numbered neighborhood URLs in this index point at the same community-area extract, not at two different counts.