Montclare incident count from CPD open data

A mechanical Montclare count, on purpose

Mechanical counts are the ones other people can repeat. Take the indexed CPD file, keep rows assigned to Montclare, and you should land on 1,146. There is no seriousness score and no extra weight for certain codes. LocalCrimeVault does not drop reports that look minor. If the open file has the row and the geography matches, it is in the total.

Mechanical is also limited. Publication rules, geocoding, and later edits all shape 1,146. Cite it as an indexed CPD report count for Montclare inside 410,083 Chicago records. Then send anyone who needs a single event’s wording to the incident table. The table is not a different dataset; it is the 1,146 taken apart.

1,146 inside 410,083 citywide reports

Montclare’s 1,146 rows are about 0.28 percent of 410,083 published incidents, or about one in 358 citywide reports. Under three-tenths of one percent of the municipal extract still leaves more than a thousand local records. Report both numbers. A chart that shows only the percentage hides 1,146. A chart that shows only 1,146 hides Chicago.

This packet has no population, so 0.28 percent of reports is not a rate per resident. A modest raw count relative to some other community areas is still not a per-person rank. The Chicago crime hub is the parent for the 410,083. Use it when you need the rest of the file. Do not mix Montclare’s 1,146 with a different agency’s table and call the result a comparison.

The Montclare table as a source, not a story engine

Identifiers, timestamps, location strings, and offense text are CPD’s published fields. Quote them as recorded. Do not treat a location string as proof of who did what. Do not treat an offense string as a finding of guilt. If two rows look similar, say so; do not merge them from this guide.

Filters are a viewing tool. They do not authorize a second Montclare total unless the extract is rebuilt. If you need a calendar window, take it from the date fields on the rows. This page will not invent a year for the 1,146. Join other spreadsheets on source identifiers rather than on reconstructed street names.

Reports remain reports when you publish them

Quoting 1,146 in an article does not convert the number into convictions. CPD’s portal product is a police-records release. Prosecutors and courts keep other products. Many reports never become charges. This packet has no court counts, so this page has none. The accurate noun is still reports.

Respectful writing names Montclare, names the Chicago Police Department, and stops before inventing defendants. Neighborhood-level copy can be specific without being lurid: it can say 1,146 published incident reports in a city file of 410,083. That sentence is complete.

Montclare’s named URL and numbered overlay

Titles and the H1 use Montclare. The overlay follows the numbered community-area path that CPD bulk columns use. The named Montclare page is the same 1,146 reports. Researchers should bookmark the numbered route for joins. General readers should use the named route. The city hub above them holds 410,083 reports. Three links, one extract.

What not to infer from Montclare’s 1,146

Do not infer a dominant offense, a year, or a per-person rank. Those inferences need fields this packet does not supply. What you can infer is narrower: CPD’s published extract, as indexed here, assigns 1,146 incident reports to Montclare out of 410,083 citywide, about 0.28 percent of the file, and those reports remain public police records rather than convictions.

Montclare’s 1,146 CPD incident reports are about 0.28 percent of 410,083 citywide records. Modest share and a four-digit local table can be true together. Do not flatten 1,146 into a rounding error, and do not inflate it into a standalone crime file. Do not convert it into a rate; population is not in the packet. Do not convert it into convictions; court files are not in the packet. The incident table and the Chicago crime hub are the next documents for rows and for the parent extract. Montclare’s 1,146 is modest as a share of 410,083 and still a four-digit published-report table. The city hub holds the 410,083-report parent. The Chicago crime hub holds the parent file. Named and numbered Montclare URLs index the same 1,146 reports.

Questions

How many police reports are listed for Montclare, Chicago?

The index lists 1,146 CPD incident reports for Montclare. They are part of 410,083 Chicago records from the city open-data portal. The total counts published reports assigned to this community area, not convictions and not a per-capita rate. Read the incident table for CPD’s published fields on each row rather than inferring an offense mix from the headline.

What share of Chicago reports come from Montclare?

Montclare’s 1,146 reports are about 0.28 percent of 410,083 citywide CPD incidents, or about one in 358 published rows. That percentage describes how this extract is split. It is not a crime rate, because this packet does not include population.

Are Montclare’s crime numbers convictions?

No. The 1,146 figure is a count of public CPD incident reports. A report can be unfounded, reclassified, or closed without a charge. Quote Montclare’s total as police reports drawn from Chicago open data, not as guilty findings. Quote the neighborhood total as public police reports from city open data, not as arrests, charges, or convictions.

Where can I see Montclare’s underlying rows?

Open the Montclare incident table on the community-area overlay, or use the named Montclare path. For citywide context, use the Chicago crime hub, which holds the parent 410,083-report index. Named and numbered neighborhood URLs in this index point at the same community-area extract, not at two different counts.