Chicago police reports — 2025-03

What 19,355 measures in March

Each of the 19,355 rows is a published police incident whose report date sits in 2025-03. Primary types are mixed. This page will not publish a violent-crime subtotal or a property-crime subtotal because those splits are not in the packet. Filter IUCR labels on the overlay if you need one type.

March sits at the winter-to-spring turn on the civic calendar. St. Patrick's Day, spring break, and weather shifts are not packet facts. If those days produced reports, they are inside 19,355 only when the report date is in March. Do not treat 19,355 as a parade-route statistic.

Occurrence date is a separate CPD column. This harvest does not give a count of March occurrences that were reported later, or of earlier occurrences reported in March. Stay with report date as the membership rule for 19,355.

A Chicago 2025-03 citation that names 19,355 without saying report date is incomplete. Parade-day pins, if they appear on the overlay, are report locations, not a St. Patrick's Day subtotal. This packet has one integer. Occurrence date can sit outside March. Read the table headers before you write that an event happened in March. Arrest flags remain report attributes. Court files are elsewhere.

Official community areas, city-wide total

When CPD populated the community area field, the overlay shows the official name. The 19,355 headline is still Chicago as a whole. Adding a handful of areas will undershoot 19,355 if other rows are blank or filtered out.

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

Researchers who need one official area should filter the 2025-03 table rather than quoting 19,355 as that area's volume.

On the 2025-03 overlay, official community area names are the geography this Chicago index supports when CPD published them. The 19,355 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 19,355. 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 19,355 attached to Chicago as a whole for 2025-03.

Reading arrest flags and blanks

An arrest field on a March 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 and missing community areas stay missing. LocalCrimeVault does not fill them. Later CPD extracts can revise 19,355 up or down as rows are added, corrected, or removed.

The 2025-03 table is the working surface for these 19,355 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 19,355. Sealed or restricted records that CPD does not publish never enter 19,355. If a type filter reduces the table, the caption should say the slice is no longer the city-wide 2025-03 headline. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges inside the 19,355 mix.

What this March page is not

It is not a 911 log, not a victimization survey, and not a court docket. Unreported events never enter 19,355. CAD calls that never became incident numbers are outside the total.

Do not compare 19,355 to another month on this page. Other month integers live on their own packets. Mixing them here would invent a comparison this file cannot support.

Where to go after the March table

Stay on the 2025-03 overlay for the 19,355-row table. Step up to the Chicago hub for type pages and community-area pages that are not limited to March. Pair any filtered subset with a caption that says you left the city-wide month headline.

Citation: 19,355 Chicago Police Department incidents with a report date in 2025-03, indexed on LocalCrimeVault from city open data. Counts are reports, not convictions.

Source notes for 2025-03

CPD publishes the incident extract; LocalCrimeVault indexes monthly slices by report date. The 19,355 figure matches this harvest, not a live query you run later on the portal.

LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify IUCR charges in the March 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: 2025 CPD incidents with a report date in 2025-03, 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 2025. Later harvests can move the integer as CPD adds late-submitted rows or revises old ones. Do not mix this 2025-03 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 19,355 only.

Questions

How many CPD incidents does LocalCrimeVault index for 2025-03?

The current indexed total is 19,355 incidents with a report date in 2025-03. 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. 19,355 is the current indexed total for Chicago report dates in 2025-03, drawn from Chicago Police Department records on city open data. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges. Later harvests can still move the integer.

Does 19,355 isolate St. Patrick's Day reports?

No. The packet has one month total. Parade-day or holiday reports, if they exist in the extract, are inside 19,355 when the report date falls in 2025-03. Filter the overlay by date for a narrower window. This page does not publish an event subtotal.

Is the March total limited to one community area?

No. 19,355 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; do not treat the headline as that area's count. 19,355 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 a March 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 19,355 as a guilty-finding total. Public incident rows for Chicago in 2025-03 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 19,355 as a guilty-finding total. Court outcomes live in a different system.