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Chicago police reports — 2024-10

Chicago currently shows 21,552 indexed CPD incidents with a report date in 2024-10 on LocalCrimeVault. Those rows come from the Chicago Police Department extract on the city's open-data portal. The 21,552 total is a monthly report-date slice for the whole city. It is not a Halloween scoreboard and not a conviction count.

Key figures

  • 21,552 Chicago CPD incidents in this index have a report date in 2024-10.
  • The October total is city-wide across IUCR types.
  • No Halloween or festival subtotal is published.
  • Counts are police reports, not convictions.

October 2024 as a time filter

Each of the 21,552 rows is a published police incident whose report date sits in 2024-10. Primary types are mixed. This page will not publish a violent-crime subtotal. Filter IUCR labels on the overlay if you need one type.

Halloween, fall festivals, and marathon-weekend civic calendars are not packet facts. If those days produced reports, they are inside 21,552 only when the report date is in October. Do not treat 21,552 as an event-route statistic.

Occurrence date is a separate CPD column. This harvest does not give a count of October occurrences reported later, or of earlier occurrences reported in October. Stay with report date as the membership rule for 21,552.

October 2024 in Chicago is 21,552 indexed CPD incidents with report dates in 2024-10. Halloween is not isolated. Marathon-weekend civic calendars are not isolated. The overlay is the place to date-filter. Official community area names appear when CPD published them. Summing a few areas will not reconstruct 21,552 if other rows are blank. LocalCrimeVault does not fill blanks.

Pins, community areas, and the city total

When CPD populated the community area field, the overlay shows the official name. The 21,552 headline is still Chicago as a whole. Adding a handful of areas will undershoot 21,552 if other rows are blank or filtered out.

Map pins are block-level public geography. They are not door-level identifications. A dense October cluster is a set of report locations, not a named-building accusation.

Researchers who need one official area should filter the 2024-10 table rather than quoting 21,552 as that area's volume.

On the 2024-10 overlay, official community area names are the geography this Chicago index supports when CPD published them. The 21,552 headline is not Austin, not Near North Side, and not any other single official area. Researchers who need one area should filter the table and caption the subset as a subset. Block-level coordinates, when present, are offset public-record locations. They do not identify a resident, a school, or a storefront by street number. CPD incident rows can lack an area; those rows still sit inside 21,552. LocalCrimeVault does not impute a community area to complete a pin map. Festival-corridor or lakefront density, if you observe it after sorting, is a table observation about report locations, not a packet fact about event crime. Keep 21,552 attached to Chicago as a whole for 2024-10.

Arrest flags and later harvests

An arrest field on an October row is still an attribute of a report. It is not a charging decision and not a guilty finding. Blank arrest fields do not prove that an event was minor.

Missing coordinates stay missing. LocalCrimeVault does not fill them. Later CPD extracts can revise 21,552 as rows are added, corrected, or removed.

The 2024-10 table is the working surface for these 21,552 rows. Sort by date, by IUCR primary type, or by geography. An arrest field, if shown, is still an attribute of a CPD report. It is not a charging decision and not a guilty finding. Unfounded or later-reclassified rows can remain until the source extract changes. Missing coordinates stay missing. OEMC CAD calls that never became incident numbers sit outside the total. Unreported events never enter 21,552. Sealed or restricted records that CPD does not publish never enter 21,552. If a type filter reduces the table, the caption should say the slice is no longer the city-wide 2024-10 headline. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges inside the 21,552 mix.

What this October page excludes

It is not a 911 log, not a victimization survey, and not a court docket. Unreported events never enter 21,552. CAD calls that never became incident numbers are outside the total.

Do not compare 21,552 to another month on this page. Other month integers live on their own packets.

Overlay, hub, and how to cite

Stay on the 2024-10 overlay for the 21,552-row table. Step up to the Chicago hub for type pages and community-area pages that are not limited to October. Pair any filtered subset with a caption that says you left the city-wide month headline.

Citation: 21,552 Chicago Police Department incidents with a report date in 2024-10, indexed on LocalCrimeVault from city open data. Counts are reports, not convictions.

Source notes for 2024-10

CPD publishes the incident extract; LocalCrimeVault indexes monthly slices by report date. The 21,552 figure matches this harvest, not a live query you run later on the portal.

LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify IUCR charges in the October mix. Keep the reports-not-convictions clause next to the number if you republish it.

A durable citation for this page names the agency, the date field, the month, the integer, and the indexer: 2024 CPD incidents with a report date in 2024-10, indexed on LocalCrimeVault from city open data. Add that counts are reports, not convictions, and that report date can differ from occurrence date. If you filtered the overlay to one type or one community area, say so; that subset is no longer 2024. Later harvests can move the integer as CPD adds late-submitted rows or revises old ones. Do not mix this 2024-10 total with another month's count on a chart unless that other integer is actually in hand from its own packet. This file's facts support 21,552 only.

Questions

How many CPD incidents does LocalCrimeVault index for 2024-10?
The current indexed total is 21,552 incidents with a report date in 2024-10. Source: Chicago Police Department open data. The mix includes every IUCR primary type in that window. The figure is a police-report count, not a conviction count. 21,552 is the current indexed total for Chicago report dates in 2024-10, drawn from Chicago Police Department records on city open data. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges. Later harvests can still move the integer.
Does 21,552 isolate Halloween reports?
No. The packet has one month total. Halloween or festival reports, if they exist in the extract, are inside 21,552 when the report date falls in 2024-10. Filter the overlay by date. This page does not publish an event subtotal.
Is the October total limited to one community area?
No. 21,552 is city-wide. Official community area names appear when CPD published them. Some rows lack an area. Use the table filter for a single official area. 21,552 is city-wide for Chicago. Official community area names appear when the source published them. Some rows lack geography. Filter the overlay for a single official community area; do not treat the headline as that area's volume. Block-level pins are not household identifications.
If an October row has an arrest flag, is that a conviction?
No. Arrest flags are attributes of police reports. Court outcomes are a different system. LocalCrimeVault indexes CPD incidents by report date and does not treat 21,552 as a guilty-finding total. Public incident rows for Chicago in 2024-10 are Chicago Police Department reports across IUCR primary types. An arrest field is not a court finding. LocalCrimeVault indexes by report date and does not treat 21,552 as a guilty-finding total. Court outcomes live in a different system.

Chicago Police Department incidents via the city open-data portal (Socrata), indexed on LocalCrimeVault. Counts are reports, not convictions.