LAPD crime data privacy insecurity
This dataset describes the Crime in LA and includes 1,000,000 rows of data and 28 columns. the columns range from codes of crime, race, locations, and has columns for weapon, age, sex, arrest status, and even coordinates. This data was taken from 2020- Jan 3 2026.
Our project was made up of 5 people, a web specialist, project manager, data wizard, and a problem solver/floater.
Crime in LA
We are investigating potential biases and external factors in how crime data is collected, focusing on the relationship between sex and crime. In particular, we analyze the dataset’s crime intensity ranking—where lower numbers indicate more violent crimes—and the gender of the victims to question the validity of this categorization system.
What does this data tell us about the relationship between sex and frequency/intensity of criminal activity? We began with a the hypothesis that the portion of crimes committed against women will involve more frequent and violent crimes.
Good Cops or Bad Cops?
The LA Crime Data from 2020 to Present dataset contains 26 variables and over 1 million entries. This data is collected from the police databases of Los Angeles and compiled into a single comma-separated-value (.csv) spreadsheet.
LA Public vs. Private Crime
Members: Elias Demko, Catalina Flores, Joshua Harvey, Leo Kayatsky