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Dataset of shootings in New York City recorded by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) in 2019.

Usage

nyc_shootings

Format

A data frame with 967 rows and six columns:

incident_key

Numeric reference number for each incident

boro

Borough name

occur_date

Date offence occurred

murder

Whether the shooting was fatal or not (logical)

longitude

Longitude

latitude

Latitude

This dataset is also available as a stand-alone file in CSV format at https://mpjashby.github.io/crimemappingdata/nyc_shootings.csv.

Licence: NYC Open Data Law