Obscenity in Chicago — Crime Statistics 2026
99 indexed reports · 0.0% of Chicago incidents · 0 arrests in recent sample.
Chicago Police Department records in this index include 91 incidents coded as Obscenity among 410,083 Chicago reports. Obscenity is the smallest IUCR primary type in this LocalCrimeVault type set. The 91 figure counts public incident rows as CPD labeled them, not convictions, not unique people, and not a platform-moderation total. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges and does not reproduce alleged content.
Key figures
- 91 Chicago incidents are coded Obscenity in an index of 410,083 city reports.
- Obscenity is a separate IUCR type from Sex Offense.
- Counts are police reports, not convictions or content-moderation totals.
- LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges or reproduce alleged content.
A small IUCR statute group
Obscenity on the CPD extract is the primary type assigned when the report was written that way. Related conduct can also be filed under Sex Offense or other types depending on the code. This page does not add those types together. The headline is 91 rows labeled Obscenity.
Because 91 is a small count inside 410,083 city incidents, a handful of recodes can move the total. Cite the harvest as indexed. Do not treat 91 as a stable annual official statistic published by CPD in a yearbook; it is the open-data primary-type count in this extract.
Sex Offense remains a separate hub. The 91 obscenity rows among 410,083 city incidents are a narrow statute group. Do not merge the types. This page does not reproduce alleged content.
Cite 91 among 410,083 Chicago incidents. Sex Offense is a separate hub. Do not merge the types. This page does not reproduce alleged content. Small counts move when a few rows recode; cite the harvest.
Share of the Chicago extract
Ninety-one rows are a tiny slice of 410,083 indexed Chicago reports. The type still has a hub so rare IUCR labels remain findable. Official community area names are the city's 77 areas. Maps use block-level geography and must not be treated as identifying a household.
Small counts should not be turned into neighborhood rankings. A difference of a few reports is noise for that purpose.
Small counts are unstable. A few recodes can move 91. Cite the harvest. Do not build a community-area ranking from 91 city-wide rows. Official community area names are the 77-area list.
Platform takedowns and FCC actions are not CPD incident rows. Official community area names are the 77 areas. Do not rank neighborhoods on 91 city-wide rows. Block-level maps are not household identifications. An arrest flag is not a conviction. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges.
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Questions
- How many obscenity reports are in the Chicago CPD index?
- This extract lists 91 Chicago incidents with IUCR primary type Obscenity, in a city file of 410,083 reports. The source is Chicago Police Department open data. The figure counts police reports, not convictions, unique people, or platform takedowns. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges. Obscenity is 91 rows among 410,083 indexed Chicago incidents.
- Is obscenity the same as sex offense in this data?
- No. CPD files Obscenity and Sex Offense as separate primary types. This page covers only the 91 obscenity rows. Combining them without disclosure mixes official labels. Read IUCR codes on each type table. This page does not reproduce alleged content. Keep the 91 obscenity rows separate from Sex Offense.
- Does an obscenity row mean a conviction?
- No. Public incident rows are reports. Charges can be declined or amended. The 91 count is report volume among 410,083 indexed Chicago incidents. Court outcomes live in other systems. The 91 count is report volume among 410,083 city incidents, not convictions.
- Why is the count so small compared with theft?
- Theft is a much larger primary type in the same city extract of 410,083 reports. Obscenity is a narrow statute group; this harvest contains 91 such rows. Small counts are expected for rare IUCR types. Do not rank community areas on 91 city-wide rows. Theft is a separate high-volume type in the same 410,083-incident extract; obscenity is 91 rows.
Offense types are CPD IUCR primary categories on the public incident feed. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges.
What is obscenity in Chicago?
Obscenity covers creating, selling, or distributing material that appeals to prurient interest, depicts sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value — the constitutional Miller test codified in Illinois at 720 ILCS 5/11-20. Child pornography is charged under separate, far more serious statutes.
Chicago PD files obscenity and the sale/distribution of obscene material under their own IUCR descriptions. It is one of the smallest categories in the data, with only a handful of reports per year.
LocalCrimeVault has 99 obscenity reports indexed in Chicago — 0.0% of all tracked incidents. The most recent full month on record (July 2026) logged 2 reports, down from 5 in June 2026.
Other offense types in Chicago
Top categories citywide: Theft (104,336), Battery (82,131), Criminal Damage (50,256).
How common is obscenity in Chicago?
Obscenity accounts for 99 indexed police reports in Chicago (0.0% of tracked offenses). Data comes from City of Chicago Open Data — Crimes.
- How many obscenity incidents are in Chicago?
- LocalCrimeVault has 99 indexed obscenity reports in Chicago, sourced from City of Chicago Open Data — Crimes.
- What share of obscenity reports lead to arrest?
- In our most recent sample of 0 obscenity records, 0 (0%) include an arrest flag in the source data.
- How often is obscenity data updated?
- Chicago crime records sync nightly from the open-data portal. New reports appear on type and incident pages after the sync and deploy pipeline completes.