This dataset shows detailed information related to the operation of the City's Metro Alarm Office, including the number of permits issued and the number of false alarms recorded each month. Please note: From July 2017-present, the columns "False Alarms" and False Alarms Historical" are identical. Prior to the ordnance passed in June 2017, the only false alarms that could be counted were those verified and matched by MPD's reporting database. This is reflected in the "False Alarms" column, pre July 2017. In order to get a true reflection of the volume of historical false alarms, dispatched records were matched and aggregated. This is reflected in the column "False Alarms Historical," pre July 2017.
This dataset has the following 15 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | date | calendar_date | Reporting month & year (date rounds to 1st of the month) | 2023-04-01T00:00:00.000 2023-05-01T00:00:00.000 2018-06-01T00:00:00.000 2020-07-01T00:00:00.000 2020-11-01T00:00:00.000 view top 100 |
| Residential Added | residential_added | number | Residential alarm permits added during the reporting month | 343 235 404 454 450 view top 100 |
| Businesses Added | businesses_added | number | Commercial alarm permits added during the reporting month | 118 91 115 76 101 view top 100 |
| False Alarm_Historical | false_alarm_historical | number | Please see dataset description for further explanation. | 3061 2843 4197 3966 4257 view top 100 |
| False Alarms | false_alarms | number | Total false alarms received during the reporting month | 0 4197 2843 3061 3966 view top 100 |
| False Alarms Charged | false_alarms_charged | number | Number of accounts that were charged for their 3rd false alarm. | 1145 1668 1606 1951 1022 view top 100 |
| Charges | charges | number | Total dollar amount charged | 0 327850 452500 285640 359640 view top 100 |
| Gross Billing | gross_billing | number | Dollar amount billed during reporting month | 144415.00 13290 358990.00 227755 311435.00 view top 100 |
| Total Collected | total_collected | number | Dollar amount collected during reporting month | 202403.23 146018.75 127798.16 65221.00 95444.75 view top 100 |
| Account-related Collections | account_related_collections | number | 8885 32032.96 15335 9638.96 35209.51 view top 100 | |
| Alarm-related Collections | alarm_related_collections | number | 146567.00 179075.67 60239 111201.75 142589.86 view top 100 | |
| Other Collections | other_collections | number | 91044 6568.43 7970 1512.12 12092.00 view top 100 | |
| Month | month | text | Reporting month | January February August March December view top 100 |
| Year | year | text | Reporting year | 2023 2016 2020 2019 2021 view top 100 |
| Month_Order | month_order | number | Month order (1=January, 12=December) | 1 2 5 9 11 view top 100 |