This site was begun to track how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced crime in U.S. cities. But now, you can analyze, visualize, and access recent criminal justice data from 27 major cities. If you would like to directly access crime statistics, please visit our statistics page . Aggregate homicide data can be found on our homicides page . For help on how to use this website, please visit our how-to page .
Click the dropdown menus below to choose which data to plot for all cities where it is available. Choose one category to display 2020 data relative to that from the previous 5 years. Choose multiple categories to compare how different types of crime were affected by the pandemic. Drag a box over the graph to zoom in, and double click to zoom back out.
Hmmm, we didn't find any charts for those settings. Please wait, we're loading the settings... The displayed data is collected from open data sources and data requests sent to specific cities. Data has been cleaned but may still contain errors. Certain reports have been dropped that are not related to the crime categories presented above. Data has also been restricted for categorical consistency across years. When necessary, crime incidents and arrests have been classified manually on that basis of “crime d