Incidents based on initial police reports taken by officers when responding to calls for service. Data is modified for public use. Address and Location are not exact locations of incidents and have been rounded to nearest hundred block. Lat/Long are approximations only based on rounded hundred block. Incidents reported in this dataset may not correlate with 911 Events datasets and calls for Police service.

The City of Mesa does not disclose information that is inflammatory in nature that impacts our citizens. Crimes reported in this data set have not been adjudicated in a court of law for final determination.

Although sensitive crimes are included, the approximate address are NOT included. Therefore aggregate totals of crimes are accurate, without providing sensitive information. Addresses are not included for: sexual abuse, sexual assault, suicide, incest, molestation of a child or homicide.

Similar information is also provided through the Communitycrimemap.com website, a 3rd party service that visually reviews crime data for Mesa and outlining areas.

Some of the data fields provided are used to report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For a listing of data fields and description please see their UCR Program Data Collections page. Alternatively, please see the Bureau of Justice Statistics NIBRS website for a listing of data fields.

This dataset provides data on the Community Court, a specialty court managed by Mesa Municipal Court. Visit https://www.mesaaz.gov/government/city-attorney/community-involvement to learn more about this and other specialty courts.

Percentage of cases disposed or otherwise resolved within established time frames (6 months or less) .

Budget Book page.

Budget Book page for the department.

The number of Automated Calls Handled by the IVR system. It is an aggregate measure of the number of calls handled by the IVR (Interactive Voice Response).

Historical staffing counts of employees in police department by calendar year. Typically Full Time Equivalent (FTE) count is approved annually by City Council as part of the city's budget process.

**Updates to this dataset are paused due to technical difficulties in Police**
Misdemeanor jail inmate housing (incidents by location, month, fiscal year) beginning from fiscal year 2011/2012, and includes information relating to those individuals housed at CoreCivic beginning July 2017. No individually identifiable information is included in this data extract.

This data will be posted one month behind when the period closes due to the data collection process.

Budget Book page.

Police incidents reported as crimes against person or property, formerly known as Part 1 or Part 2 crimes. See "Criminal Activity" PDF in the dataset attachments section (About this Dataset) for list of the 15 offenses included. Filtered view to include only if the incident involved one or more of the 15 listed offenses.