Chicago police reports — January 2026

January 2026 as the first month of the year

The 15,952 figure is the indexed count of CPD incidents with report dates in January 2026. New Year's timing can shape some calls, but this packet does not include a holiday subtotal or a New Year's Day count. Do not invent one. The factual total is 15,952 rows in the monthly slice.

January sits at the start of the 2026 calendar in this set of month pages. That is a labeling fact, not a claim that January is the start of CPD's statistical year or of an FBI table. Quote the open-data extract LocalCrimeVault indexed.

January 1 rows, if any, are inside 15,952 when the report date is 2026-01-01. New Year's Eve 2025 would fall in a different month's report-date slice if the report date is 2025-12-31. This packet is January 2026 only.

January 2026 has 15,952 indexed incidents with report dates in 2026-01. New Year's Eve 2025 belongs to a December report-date slice if the report date is 2025-12-31. Keep the date rule explicit when citing year-end weeks.

What is inside 15,952 rows

Primary types are mixed. Theft, battery, damage, and rarer IUCR labels all contribute to the same 15,952. The month page is a date filter. Type hubs exist elsewhere on the site for a single IUCR category across time.

Arrest flags, when present, are not convictions. Unique-offender and unique-victim counts are not packet facts. One incident is one row.

The 15,952 mix is unfiltered IUCR. Do not quote it as a violent-crime total. Filter the overlay for person-crime types if that is the question. LocalCrimeVault does not recode the mix.

The 15,952 mix is unfiltered IUCR. Do not quote it as a violent-crime total. Official community area names are the 77 areas. The headline is city-wide. Later harvests can add late January report dates. LocalCrimeVault indexes CPD open data. Counts are reports, not convictions.

Geography and the January table

Official community area names (77 areas) and block-level locations appear when CPD published them. The 15,952 total is city-wide. A Loop filter or an Austin filter is a subset, not the headline. Blank geography stays blank. LocalCrimeVault does not impute community areas.

Pins are not street-number addresses of victims or accused persons. Use the table as public-record geography.

Later harvests can add January report dates that arrived late. Cite 15,952 as the current index. Official community area names are the 77 areas. The headline is city-wide, not one neighborhood.

Report date, updates, and other systems

The slice uses report date in 2026-01. Occurrence date can differ. Late rows can appear in later harvests. The 15,952 count is the current index for January report dates, not a frozen yearbook cell.

911 CAD and court dockets are not this total. CPD and the City of Chicago publish the incidents. LocalCrimeVault indexes monthly slices. This page does not compare January to other months.

Chicago hub

The January 2026 overlay is the live table for these 15,952 rows. The Chicago hub is the city-wide home for types and community areas outside a single month. Use the hub when the question is not limited to 2026-01 report dates.

Fifteen thousand nine hundred fifty-two is the indexed count of CPD incidents with report dates in January 2026. New Year's Day rows, if present, sit inside 15,952 when the report date is 2026-01-01. This page does not publish a January 1 subtotal. Filter the table for a single day.

January begins the 2026 calendar in this month set. That is labeling, not a claim that CPD's statistical year starts here or that an FBI table uses the same window. Quote the open-data extract LocalCrimeVault indexed.

How to document the January 2026 harvest

The 15,952 mix includes every IUCR primary type. Arrest flags are not convictions. Unique-person counts are not packet facts. One incident is one row.

Citation form: "15,952 Chicago Police Department incidents with a report date in January 2026, indexed on LocalCrimeVault from the city open-data portal." State the date rule. State that rows are reports, not convictions.

Official community area names are the city's 77 areas. The 15,952 headline is city-wide. Blank geography remains in the total when the report date is in 2026-01. Block-level maps are not household lists. Later harvests can move 15,952 if CPD updates the source.

Questions

How many Chicago police reports are indexed for January 2026?

LocalCrimeVault currently indexes 15,952 CPD incidents with a report date in January 2026. The source is Chicago Police Department open data. The figure counts police reports of every IUCR primary type, not convictions. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges. The 15,952 mix includes every IUCR type with a January 2026 report date.

Does the January total include New Year's Eve or New Year's Day as a separate count?

No separate holiday subtotal is in the packet facts. Incidents with a report date in January 2026 are inside the 15,952. If a report date is 2026-01-01, it is in this slice. This page does not publish a New Year's Day figure. Filter the table by date if you need a single day. Holiday days are inside 15,952 when their report date falls in January 2026.

Is 15,952 a community area total?

No. It is city-wide. Community area names on rows are official city geography when present. Some rows lack area. Do not treat the headline as one neighborhood. Use table filters for geography. Block-level pins are not household identifications. The 15,952 headline is city-wide, not one community area.

Does a January 2026 incident mean a conviction?

No. Public rows are reports. The 15,952 count is monthly report volume. Court outcomes live in other systems. LocalCrimeVault indexes CPD incidents by report date and does not reclassify charges. The 15,952 count is monthly report volume from CPD, not convictions.