Chicago Police Department - Illinois Uniform Crime Reporting (IUCR) Codes
data.cityofchicago.org | Last Updated 8 Dec 2021Illinois Uniform Crime Reporting (IUCR) codes are four digit codes that law enforcement agencies use to classify criminal incidents when taking individual reports. These codes are also used to aggregate types of cases for statistical purposes. In Illinois, the Illinois State Police establish IUCR codes, but the agencies can add codes to suit their individual needs. The Chicago Police Department currently uses more than 400 IUCR codes to classify criminal offenses, divided into “Index” and “Non-Index” offenses. Index offenses are the offenses that are collected nation-wide by the Federal Bureaus of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reports program to document crime trends over time (data released semi-annually), and include murder, criminal sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault & battery, burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. Non-index offenses are all other types of criminal incidents, including vandalism, weapons violations, public peace violations, etc.
This dataset has the following 5 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IUCR | iucr | text | 1585 462 497 1562 551 view top 100 | |
| PRIMARY DESCRIPTION | primary_description | text | NARCOTICS OTHER OFFENSE DECEPTIVE PRACTICE BATTERY GAMBLING view top 100 | |
| SECONDARY DESCRIPTION | secondary_description | text | AGGRAVATED SIMPLE AGGRAVATED - OTHER DANGEROUS WEAPON AGGRAVATED - HANDGUN AGGRAVATED - KNIFE / CUTTING INSTRUMENT view top 100 | |
| INDEX CODE | index_code | text | N I view top 100 | |
| ACTIVE | active | checkbox | Whether the code is active. Retired codes (No) are present in this dataset for historical reference. There is a filtered view for this dataset showing only active codes. | true false view top 100 |