Crime reports in Douglas, Chicago

Douglas as an official South Side community area

Douglas is the official name in the community-area list. Informal labels that cover several Near South / Bronzeville-adjacent areas are not this extract. 5,005 is Douglas only. Grand Boulevard, Oakland, and Near South Side are different official files.

Searchers looking for 'Bronzeville crime' will not find a single CPD community-area code by that name on this site. If they land here, they are looking at Douglas's 5,005 indexed reports, not a multi-area rollup.

Citywide 410,083 reports are the parent. Douglas's 1.2 percent share is a slice of that parent.

Douglas's 5,005 reports are whatever CPD published with this community-area assignment in the indexed snapshot. Beats, districts, and wards are different geographies. If a map you saw used beats, it will not match 5,005 even when the street looks familiar. Stay on the community-area table when you cite this page.

Open data is not a live dispatch feed. A scanner or a 911 tracker can show events that have not yet appeared as Socrata rows, and the reverse can also happen when CPD republishes older records. Treat 5,005 as the published extract LocalCrimeVault indexed, then re-pull if you need a new as-of date.

The unit is a police report

5,005 Douglas rows are published CPD incidents. They are not convictions. They are not a list of people this site names. Identifiers may be withheld.

Campus, hospital, and residential locations can share one community-area tag. This packet has no institution split, so 5,005 is not assigned to a single campus.

The 410,083 citywide total is the only denominator this packet supports. Douglas's share of about 1.2 percent is comparable to other LocalCrimeVault Chicago neighborhood pages that use that same city file. It is not comparable to FBI city tables, OEMC call logs, or a vendor dashboard that used a different cut.

1.2 percent of indexed Chicago reports

5,005 ÷ 410,083 ≈ 1.2 percent. Washington Heights is a different South Side area with a different count. Keep the names on separate pages.

No rate is shown. Population is not in the packet.

Researchers who need row-level fields should open the incident table at /cities/chicago/neighborhood/community-area-35/ (the name alias is /cities/chicago/neighborhood/douglas/). This guide is prose about the headline count. It is not a download of the 5,005 rows and it does not add offense-type percents the packet does not contain.

Community area 35

Douglas is community area 35. Use 35 for research joins. The numbered URL and the Douglas name URL both open the 5,005-row table.

The incident table holds rows. The Chicago hub holds 410,083 citywide reports.

Citation form

Douglas (Chicago community area) has 5,005 indexed CPD incident reports in city open data (LocalCrimeVault), of 410,083 citywide; reports not convictions. The word Chicago in parentheses helps disambiguate other places named Douglas.

Using the Douglas table next to the city hub

The neighborhood hub lists the Douglas rows behind the 5,005 total. Sort and filter there for dates and published CPD type codes. This packet has no type mix, so this guide will not invent one. If a type filter reduces the table below 5,005, you have left the headline on purpose; say so in the caption.

The Chicago hub is the parent file of 410,083 reports. Douglas's about-1.2 percent share only means something against that parent. Do not paste 5,005 into a story that already used a different city total. Pair the two integers, name CPD open data, and keep the reports-not-convictions clause on the same screen as the number.

If you export rows, you are still looking at police reports. Geocodes may be offset to a block. Some addresses are blank. Community-area assignment can change when CPD repairs a location. 5,005 is the indexed snapshot for Douglas, not a promise that a query on data.cityofchicago.org tomorrow returns the same integer.

Douglas sits in a published police extract, not in a private RMS dump. Anyone reproducing 5,005 for Douglas should keep the city denominator of 410,083 in the same paragraph so readers can see the about-1.2 percent share. If a later index rebuild changes Douglas's integer, replace the caption rather than silently editing old charts. The unit remains a CPD incident report as released on the city portal.

Questions

How many crime reports are in Douglas, Chicago?

LocalCrimeVault indexes 5,005 CPD incident reports for Douglas, out of 410,083 Chicago reports. That is about 1.2 percent of the city file. Grand Boulevard and Near South Side are not included. The figure counts police reports, not convictions. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. Douglas's 5,005 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.2 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Is Douglas the same as Bronzeville in this data?

Douglas is the official community area with 5,005 indexed reports. Informal names that span multiple official areas are not a CPD community-area code on this page. A Bronzeville rollup would be a custom sum. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. Douglas's 5,005 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.2 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Are Douglas crime figures convictions?

No. 5,005 counts published Chicago Police reports. Court outcomes are not in this extract. Quote report volume. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. Douglas's 5,005 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.2 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Where is the Douglas incident table?

The Douglas incident table lists the 5,005 indexed rows. The name slug aliases the numbered path. Citywide 410,083 reports are on the Chicago crime hub. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. Douglas's 5,005 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.2 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.