Based on initial police reports taken by officers when responding to incidents and comes from Police Records Management System (RMS). This data set has been modified for public use by obfuscating the address number through rounding it to the 100 block.
Note that incidents reported here may not correlate with Police 911 Events dataset and other calls for Police service.
The City of Mesa does not wish to disclose information that is inflammatory in nature that impacts our citizens. It is also worth noting that crimes reported in this data set have not been adjudicated in a court of law for final determination.
Sensitive crimes will be listed but the address of their occurrence will NOT be included. In this way aggregate totals of crimes will be accurate, without providing sensitive information.
Addresses where the following crime types reported will NOT be included are: Sexual abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Incest, Molestation of a child and Homicide.
Additionally, this information is provided through the CrimeReports website. This 3rd party website can be used to visually review 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.