If you can remember that long ago, back in early 2009 I mapped a bunch of Dakota County Criminal Complaints by defendant zip codes and color coded them based on how many of the accused came from a particular zip code. While hardly perfect, it was an interesting data experiment for me and one that got a bit of attention on the site.
Well, fast forward to 2010 and to my various other posts which scrape data and map, plot, and create crime dashboards for Dakota and County counties as well as a map/dashboard of all the Level 3 sex offenders in the state. I have wanted to update the Dakota County Criminal Complaints map for sometime and automate it as well and I finally got around to doing it.
Please note:
1. This data is from the last rolling 30 days and is compiled from the Dakota County Criminal Complaints Archive which is updated once a day at 3 PM.
2. The individuals listed here have been charged with a crime(s) but are not necessarily guilty.
3. The addresses are rough approximations. While I do have the actual addresses they reported I decided to plot only street, city, state, zip instead of the full on address. You’ll live.
4. This will update once a day at 4 PM.
5. Enjoy.
Related posts:
Dakota Complaints Map
Dakota Inmate Dashboard
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May 12th, 2010 at 8:23 am
When I click on a pin and get a name, how do I find more information about the complaint? Where do I go to see what the charge/incident was?
(Sorry for the dumb question.)
May 12th, 2010 at 8:25 am
I didn’t think to add a link to the complaint but that will be easy enough. I’ll fix it up in a bit. Thanks for the suggestion.
May 12th, 2010 at 8:51 am
I have broken the map while making Greg’s changes. Oops. It’s repopulating now. Sorry!
May 12th, 2010 at 8:55 am
Yay everything is working again including the link! Enjoy.
May 12th, 2010 at 9:16 am
I don’t get any links, even after a couple of hard resets, etc.
Should it be in the balloon that pops up with the name?
May 12th, 2010 at 9:21 am
Yup and they are in there. I promise.
May 12th, 2010 at 10:16 am
Working now, thanks!
May 12th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Bill, once again……… Thank you for performing your civic duty in a way that, to say the very least……….. is dam# fantastic!!!!!!
May 12th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Very cool.
May 21st, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Today there were no complaints with addresses. Odd……
May 21st, 2010 at 4:58 pm
They’re all homeless?
June 12th, 2010 at 11:47 am
Fixed a bug in the scraping code which was breaking the map. Oops.
January 18th, 2011 at 11:23 pm
Thanks for doing this Bill!
April 23rd, 2012 at 8:51 am
Dear Sir,
Where can I get copies of Apple Valley Incident reports? The same ones the Patch gets? I’m looking up an incident from two weeks ago that I was involved in.
Thanks
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:11 am
Call the AVPD and pay the research fee.