Dispatch and Crime Data Portals

Making crime information public

The Sacramento Police Department (SPD) provides downloadable data from both our Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Records Management Systems (RMS) through the City of Sacramento Open Data Portal. Visit the Community Crime Map to view crime data in our neighborhoods and city.

Dispatch (CAD) call for service data

A CAD system is a highly specialized system that uses telecommunications and geographic display to support police dispatch and response functions. The Police Department's CAD system provides mission critical mapping capabilities for the 911 call center.

The files available through the Open Data Portal for Dispatch (CAD) Data represent annual calls for service received by the Sacramento Police Department for the current year-to-date and (5) five continuous years of archives. 

Report (RMS) data

An RMS is the specialized computer system utilized to secure and maintain all criminal intelligence and related reports generated by the department. The data extracts will contain all types of crime reports as well as reports where only information was gathered which did not meet a criminal threshold, such as vehicle collisions, information reports and health/medical related reports.

The files available through the Open Data Portal for Crime Data represent annual calls for service which generated a report by the Sacramento Police Department for the current year-to-date and (5) five continuous years of archives.

Important information about SPD's crime and dispatch data in the City's Open Data Portal

In an effort to be transparent, the Sacramento Police Department (SPD) provides the public access to all of the different fields that are completely public and available for release. There are limitations based on the crime type as well as laws governing the confidentiality of specific pieces of data. All information is pulled from the Police Department Records Management System (RMS) and the Computer Aided Dispatch system (CAD). SPD provides these statistics through the City of Sacramento Open Data Portal.

Because this data is produced via a complex set of processes, there are places where errors can be introduced into the data that you will be downloading. Please keep this in mind when working with these data extracts.

The data contained within these extracts are not intended to be directly compared with the official UCR or NIBRS statistics reported by the Sacramento Police Department to the California Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation. Contributing factors include reclassification and/or amendments of dispatch call types and report crime class codes due to investigative clarification.

The data does not contain the full crime report and automobile collision report information. For more information on how to obtain a copy of either, please refer to our Request a Police Report page under Police Services.

The Police Department is providing this data for download under the assumption that you have the computer skills necessary to understand operations like unzipping compressed files, opening data extract files, building queries, creating reports for output to a printer, etc. The Police Department does not have staff available to assist you in downloading, using, or interpreting this data.

It is against State law (Government Code Section 7923.615(b)) for us to provide victims’ addresses for certain classes of crimes (primarily rape, sex or abuse-related crimes). Since the address field in the data extracts is usually that of the victim, confidential reports and calls for service will have the address redacted for the affected entries. You can research activity for those types of crimes, but location information in these instances will be limited to patrol district, or patrol beat. Confidential reports and calls for service will also not have location information displayed in the Open Data Portal or Community Crime Map. This applies to the following crimes*:

  • 220 - Attempted Rape; 
  • 261, 262, 264 – Rape; 
  • 273 - Domestic Violence/ Child Neglect;
  • 286 – Sodomy;
  • 288, 289 - Other Sex Crimes; 
  • 422 - Terrorist Threats; and
  • 646.9 – Stalking

*The following is complete listing of crimes that can be researched: 220, 236.1, 243.4, 261, 261.5, 262, 262(a)(1), 264, 264.1, 265, 266, 266(a), 266(b), 266(c), 266(e), 266(f), 266(j), 267, 269, 269(a), 273(a), 273(d), 273.5, 285, 286, 288, 288(a), 288.2, 288.3, 288.5, 288.7, 289, 422.6, 422.7, 422.75, 646.9, 647.6, as well as Welfare and Institutions Code 5150 or Business and Professions Code 729(a).

Most law enforcement agencies have pre-defined areas for assignment and reporting purposes. Districts are the largest of the areas; the city is divided into 7 Districts. The Districts are divided into Beats, which are assigned to patrol officers. See the Map of Sacramento Neighborhoods and Police Beats.

 

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