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.

Building permits issued by City of Mesa. Included: All building permits applied. Not Included: Applications for Documents or Services, Code Compliance Complaints, Planning Cases, Engineering Projects or Signs. To see a dataset that includes Sign Permits see https://data.mesaaz.gov/Development-Services/Building-Permits-Commercial-Residential-and-Signs-/m2kk-w2hz

It is assumed that all permits have been issued based on meeting all building and zoning codes.

Calls for service dispatched to Mesa Police Patrol Officers. Calls are modified for public use, obfuscating the address number through rounding it to the 100 block. Note that these are calls for service and may not necessarily correspond to the data located in the Police Incidents dataset. Crimes reported in this data set have not been adjudicated in a court of law for final determination.

Sensitive crimes are 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 occur will NOT be captured: Sexual abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Incest, Molestation of a child and Homicide.

Priority One (P1) Call: Life threatening or confrontations which may threaten life or safety of a person.

Priority Two (P2) Call: In progress crime that could result in a threat to injure or possible major property loss or immediate apprehension of a suspect. Accidents with injury or other traffic incidents that create a traffic hazard.

Priority Three (P3) Call: Minor in-progress/just occurred calls, where there is no threat of injury or major property loss.

Priority Four (P4) Call: Nuisance calls, civil standbys, delayed reports where reporting party (RP) is at public location.

Priority Five (P5) Call: Calls where a delay will not result in a crime occurring or the loss of an apprehension or an injured person not receiving aid.

This dataset includes both Code Violations as determined by City of Mesa and reported complaints only, but no code violation found. Some data for cases between July 2017- July 2018 is unreliable and is excluded. This dataset does not include the status of the violation except to include the date the violation was closed. Individual up-to-date case status can be found at https://aca.accela.com/mesa/. Also includes violations that were voluntary complied with.

Included: Cases opened since Jan 1, 2005 (with one file per calendar year). These cases were found by a City of Mesa Code Officer to be in violation of one or more city or state codes and are denoted by a value of "N" in "Complaint Only" field. In 2005-2006, the City of Mesa employed 22 Code Officers. Since that time, the number of Code Officers has been reduced to 10.

Not Included: Commercial or Residential construction projects, Demolitions, Applications for Documents or Services, Planning Cases, or Engineering Projects.

Summary ethnicity and gender for Police employees compared with community profile. Employee totals as of January 1, 2022 (see source linked below). Community race/ethnicity is sourced from US Census 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates and includes survey responses for race alone or in combination with one or more other races. To normalize comparison with employees, White in community profile is defined as White alone, not Hispanic or Latino and are individuals who responded "No, not Spanish/Hispanic/Latino" and who reported "White" as their only entry in the race question.
Percentages do not equal 100 because includes percentage of Hispanic or Latino (of any race). https://citydata.mesaaz.gov/Census/Age-and-Population-Demographics/4why-9h55
NOTE: The release of 2020 ACS estimates are delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Students in Mesa Public Schools participating in National School Lunch Program (Free/Reduced) by School Year and School.
1. The report provides claim data for the month of October as reported by School Food Authorities (SFA). An SFA is the governing body which is responsible for the administration of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).
2. All data is pertaining to children enrolled at locations that participate in NSLP. Children NOT enrolled at an NSLP participating location cannot technically be approved for free or reduced-price lunches.
3. The Report is created on January 30th.
4. The data provided here is NOT equivalent to NCLB indicators that are uploaded to SAIS.
5. Cells with an asterisk(*) indicate data has been suppressed to meet FERPA requirements.
6. The Site Level percentage is derived by dividing the sum of all free lunch eligible children AND all reduced-price lunch eligible children by the sum of all free lunch eligible children AND reduced-price lunch eligible children AND paid lunch eligible children.
For any additional data needs, please visit our Data Management page at www.azed.gov/data/
7. Enrollment figures are as of the last day in October 

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.

Confirmed cases of opioid overdose, locations are not actual but instead rounded to approximately 1/3 mile increments. Opioid overdose confirmed by 1) patient or witness verification, 2) Opioid found on scene or 3) positive response to Narcan treatment. For more information on opioid drugs see https://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/opioids

Students Demographics for Mesa Public Schools by School Year and Grade Level since 1979.

Information reported weekly by the Arizona Department of Health of confirmed COVID-19 cases by zip code and displayed here to better visualize the data. Direct REST Endpoint URL in Source Link field below. Statewide data available at https://www.azdhs.gov/preparedness/epidemiology-disease-control/infectious-disease-epidemiology/covid-19/dashboards/index.php.