As part of our commitment to Open Data and to encourage others to analyse and use the data we manage, clean and curate we are making our crime reports database available publicly. If you are a coder, developer or hacker this is for you. If you're not technically inclined then we'd suggest you head on back to our Data Portal for more people friendly data. Or you can take a look at our analyses bases on these data in our partnership with the OPD here.

Oakland Police report data is generated from the Urban Strategies partnership with the Oakland Police Department. Cleaned and geocoded reports generally take one week to process, so data will be available up until the week prior. Crime report data is summarized by the week --Sunday - Saturday. Please note that the starting date is not always the Sunday of that week, but it represents the first instance of a report for that particular beat.

To obtain a layer of the boundaries for the community police beats, please go to:

Oakland Community Police Beats

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Function Call: Get crime summary
Base URL: http://rest.infoalamedacounty.org/index.php/api/usc/crimeAggregate
Options:
• format-[xml,json,serialize,php,html,csv]
• stdate (YYYY-MM-DD)-beginning date for query
• beat:string-community police beats in Oakland

Example Return
http://rest.infoalamedacounty.org/index.php/api/rest/crimeAggregate/stdate/2011-03-02/beat/22x