Police calls (inactive)

Note: new police calls are no longer being added to EveryBlock San Francisco.

About police calls

In this section of EveryBlock, you can find out about criminal activity near you, from reports of graffiti to bomb threats to homicides.

The information, which comes from the San Francisco Police Department, includes all calls to public safety dispatchers — whether they're made by citizens or police officers and whether they involve criminal or non-criminal activity. Each report says where the incident was reported, when police were called and when the report was entered into the system. Also included is the incident's type (homicide, noise nuisance, fight without weapons, etc.).

When possible, we've also given each incident higher-level classifications called "broad category" and "detail category." Broad categories include violent crime, domestic violence and police action/assistance. Detail categories are more granular; all alarm reports are grouped together, as are reports of assaults, threats and vandalism, among several other categories.

Note that "broad category" and "detail category" are not official police categories, but we at EveryBlock crafted them with input from the police department. These categories are our attempts at EveryBlock to group incidents with broad strokes — to make it easier for you to understand larger crime trends in your neighborhood.

Finally, each report includes the incident's result, which essentially tells you what responding officers found or did in response to the call. This might be an arrest, the issuance of a citation or a report's cancellation while the officer was en route.

Please note that the information reflects initial calls for service, and doesn't necessarily reflect the actual incident that occurred. For example, a citizen might report a robbery in a case where the crime is actually a burglary.

Source

The information comes from the DataSF.org data file repository. The San Francisco Police Department compiles the data, which is updated once a day. We at EveryBlock update the information daily.

How do I obtain reports from the police department?

You can request police reports by mailing this form to the department's Records Bureau.

The department provides more information about the process on its police report page under the section titled, "How do I get a copy of my police report?"