Information about proactive homeless contacts made by Mesa Police as part of Homeless Outreach Project (HOP). The "Homeless Outreach Project" involves a proactive contact made by police during an outreach effort in which services are offered to people experiencing homelessness by a nonprofit partner in partnership with Police. Contacts = Number of individuals contacted by officers and confirmed by self-admission or other means to be homeless. Not all contacts were involved in a citeable or arrestable criminal offense or accepted humanitarian service of shelter, medical, or mental health assistance. Service Resistance/Arrests = Individual is arrested, cited, or a long form complaint is filed. Individual was contacted in commission of a crime or citable offense. If it was a felony or a warrant individual was arrested. Any minor misdemeanor or city code offenses individual is offered services of housing, CBI, etc. in lieu of a cite or being arrested. Individual declines services and is arrested or issued a citation. Service Acceptance = No crime or criminal activity is occurring. Individual is contacted and is offered shelter, medical, or mental health services and accepts placement into one of these services. Individual is transported to CBI by officer, Navigators are called and transport individual for shelter, or fire transports subject to an appropriate facility. See https://www.mesaaz.gov/residents/community-development/reducing-homelessness/help-for-the-homeless for more information about Help for the Homeless.
This dataset has the following 13 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RowId | rowid | number | Unique row identifier | 4773 2747 2482 4042 1893 view top 100 |
| Week Of | week_of | calendar_date | Date of the first Monday when contact was made | 2022-06-06T00:00:00.000 2022-06-27T00:00:00.000 2022-12-05T00:00:00.000 2022-08-15T00:00:00.000 2022-08-22T00:00:00.000 view top 100 |
| Operation Year | operation_year | text | Year of the week when contact was made | 2022 2023 2020 2021 2024 view top 100 |
| Operation Month | operation_month | text | Year of the month name when contact was made | Aug Sep Jul Oct Jun view top 100 |
| Division | division | text | Name of police geographic division where officer(s) who made contact are assigned | Central Super Red Mtn Fiesta MFAC view top 100 |
| Unit | unit | text | Name of police unit where officer(s) who made contact are assigned | SCU Patrol Bikes CAO BIKES view top 100 |
| Unit Description | unit_description | text | Description of the assigned police unit | Superstition Street Crimes Unit Bikes Patrol Central CAO Red Mountain Street Crimes Unit view top 100 |
| Subcategory | subcategory | text | How services provided, if applicable. CBI = Community Bridges, CRT = Crisis Response Team, Raine = City Homeless Coordinator, Triage = Paramedic | N/A CBI or Raine CBI or CRT Triage Line/FIRE view top 100 |
| Metric | metric | text | Immediate outcome of contact | Contacts Cite/Release and Community Court Booking Fel Felony LFC Booking Misd view top 100 |
| Contacts | contacts | number | Number of contacts initiated by police (see dataset brief description for definition) | 0 1 2 3 8 view top 100 |
| Human Service Acceptance | human_service_acceptance | number | Total number of contacts who accepted human service resources (see dataset brief description for definition) | 0 1 2 3 4 view top 100 |
| Service Resistance | service_resistance | number | Total number of contacts not accepting of human (see dataset brief description for definition) | 0 1 2 3 4 view top 100 |
| Total | total | number | Total of all contacts | 0 1 2 3 4 view top 100 |