Public Peace Violation in Chicago — Crime Statistics 2026
2,093 indexed reports · 0.5% of Chicago incidents · 0 arrests in recent sample.
Chicago Police Department records in this index include 1,806 incidents coded as Public Peace Violation, about 0.4 percent of 410,083 Chicago reports. This IUCR primary type covers public-order reports as CPD labeled them—disorderly and related codes when that is how the incident was filed. The 1,806 figure counts police reports, not convictions. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges.
Key figures
- 1,806 Chicago incidents are coded Public Peace Violation — about 0.4% of 410,083 city reports.
- This IUCR type is public-order reports, not assault or battery.
- Volume can reflect enforcement writing as well as calls for service.
- Counts are police reports, not convictions. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges.
Public-order reports, not a violence series
Public Peace Violation is a public-order bucket on the CPD feed. Reckless conduct, disorderly-type events, and similar IUCR codes can land here when CPD assigns this primary type. It is not battery, not assault, and not riot as a separate headline: those are other labels or other systems. The 1,806 count is only this primary type.
Enforcement discretion is high for public-order codes. Volume can move when officers write more or fewer of these reports. That is a reason not to treat 1,806 as a street-violence trend. It is report volume for one IUCR type among 410,083 Chicago incidents.
Reckless-conduct and disorderly-type codes, when CPD assigned this primary type, sit inside 1,806 among 410,083 city incidents (about 0.4 percent). This page does not publish those code subtotals. Filter the overlay and keep CPD's wording.
Cite 1,806 with the 410,083 city denominator (about 0.4 percent). Public-order writing is discretionary. A quiet week of 311 calls can still produce IUCR rows if officers write them, and a loud weekend can produce few if they do not. Read the 1,806 as report volume in this harvest.
Share of the city extract
At about 0.4 percent of 410,083 indexed reports, public peace violation is a small slice next to theft or battery. Small share still belongs on a complete type list so residual public-order activity is not invisible. Official community area names on the rows are the city's 77 areas.
Downtown and event-heavy community areas can show more of these reports because that is where officers and callers meet. The map is report geography, not a character ranking of residents.
Event deployments can raise public-order writing without a change in a victimization survey. Read 1,806 as report volume. Official community area names are the 77-area list. Downtown clusters are where officers and callers met, not a ranking of residents.
Do not fold 1,806 into battery or assault. Those hubs exist for those labels. Official community area names are the 77-area list. Block-level pins are not identifications of people. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges.
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Questions
- How many public peace violation reports are in Chicago CPD data?
- This extract lists 1,806 Chicago incidents with IUCR primary type Public Peace Violation, about 0.4 percent of 410,083 city reports. The source is Chicago Police Department open data. The figure counts police reports, not convictions or unique people. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges. Public peace violation is 1,806 of 410,083 indexed Chicago incidents.
- Is public peace violation the same as assault or battery?
- No. Public Peace Violation is a public-order IUCR type. Assault and battery are separate person-crime types. This page covers only the 1,806 public peace rows. Mixing them inflates either series. Keep CPD's primary type as published. Keep the 1,806 rows separate from assault and from battery.
- Can enforcement change this count without a change in street conditions?
- Yes. Public-order reports often depend on how often officers write the code. The 1,806 figure is report volume in the current index of 410,083 Chicago incidents, not a survey of disorder. Read maps as where reports were taken, not as a ranking of residents. The 1,806 figure is report volume among 410,083 city incidents, not a disorder survey.
- Does a public peace row mean a conviction?
- No. Open-data incidents are reports. Ordinance tickets and court cases are different systems. Quote 1,806 as CPD IUCR report volume. Block-level geography is not an identification of a person. Quote 1,806 as CPD IUCR report volume, not as ordinance tickets or convictions.
Offense types are CPD IUCR primary categories on the public incident feed. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges.
Compare this offense across cities
What is public peace violation in Chicago?
Public peace violations are offenses against public order — disorderly conduct, reckless conduct, mob action, false police reports, and bomb or gun threats. The umbrella Illinois statute is disorderly conduct (720 ILCS 5/26-1), which covers acts done "in an unreasonable manner" that alarm or disturb others and provoke a breach of the peace.
Chicago PD descriptions here include "reckless conduct," "mob action," "false report of offense," and bomb/gun threats. Most reports are misdemeanors, but threats against schools and transit draw felony charges and heavy police response.
LocalCrimeVault has 2,093 public peace violation reports indexed in Chicago — 0.5% of all tracked incidents. The most recent full month on record (August 2026) logged 17 reports, down from 119 in July 2026.
Other offense types in Chicago
Top categories citywide: Theft (104,336), Battery (82,131), Criminal Damage (50,256).
How common is public peace violation in Chicago?
Public Peace Violation accounts for 2,093 indexed police reports in Chicago (0.5% of tracked offenses). Data comes from City of Chicago Open Data — Crimes.
- How many public peace violation incidents are in Chicago?
- LocalCrimeVault has 2,093 indexed public peace violation reports in Chicago, sourced from City of Chicago Open Data — Crimes.
- What share of public peace violation reports lead to arrest?
- In our most recent sample of 0 public peace violation records, 0 (0%) include an arrest flag in the source data.
- How often is public peace violation 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.