About
CrimeDB compiles public records of crime and justice, from the incident to the court to the outcome. FBI crime data from 1960, Census population, and federal sentencing records are loaded and built into CrimeDB's series. No insight shows figures from them yet: insights show the questions, the method, and the sources that will answer them.
At a glance
- Places
- The nation and all 50 states plus DC. States come first; county, city, and ZIP answers come later.Pick a state
- Years
- FBI agency records from 1960, incident detail from 1991, and the FBI's printed reports back to 1930. CrimeDB's own series starts in 1960 for offenses and in 2022 for incident detail.
- Subjects
- Insights on what people ask about: teen takeovers, immigrants and crime, hate crimes, drunk driving, lynchings, robbery, campus sexual assault, ppp fraud.See the insights
- Sources
- 240 places we look for records: 83 national, 141 state, and 16 local. Every figure names its source.
Loaded
- Crime reported to police: FBI offense counts by agency and month from 1960, and incident records (NIBRS) from 1991.
- Arrests from 1974, and homicide records with victim, offender, and weapon from 1976.
- Hate crime, police employees, cargo theft, and human trafficking.
- The FBI's printed and published tables, back to 1930 as scans.
- Victimization, including crime never reported to police: the national survey (NCVS), from 1993.
- Census population estimates, for rates.
- Federal sentencing: every U.S. Sentencing Commission datafile from fiscal 2002.
Coming next
- Federal prosecutions from Justice Department press releases.
How we work
How CrimeDB compiles records, what its words mean, and the files behind every figure are on Methods.
What CrimeDB is not
- Live incidents, crime maps, or alerts.
- Safety scores for places, or risk scores for people.
- Search by a person's name.
- Filing a report. Nobody files with CrimeDB; we compile what agencies and courts publish.