Crime data is used in a variety of ways and for several reasons.

Find out about crimes in your neighborhood by using this Web-based program.

The City considers crime rates when making budgeting decisions, developing long-term plans, attracting businesses and tourism, and creating services, to name a few.

State and federal agencies use crime data for research, policy development, evaluation, program creation, legislative action,  funding allotment, and other processes.

You use crime data, in part, to help you decide where to buy a home, send your children to school, or start a business. (Just be sure to look beyond the data; understand what the numbers don’t tell you.)

As your police department, we use crime data to guide our enforcement actions, determine manpower requirements, shape crime reduction efforts, and provide information on how to be safe.

You can find crime data in many places. On this website, you can find:

• Crime data that is updated weekly
• Historical data about violent crimes and property crimes. Charts and data on these pages are great for researchers, journalists, academics, and others interested in collecting and analyzing crime information.

Two other resources for crime data are the NC State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crime Data Explorer 

Each year, the Greensboro Police Department contributes to these reports by providing crime data to the SBI.

About Crime Data

Crime data can change from year to year. As some investigations progress, some reports can be unfounded or reclassified to another type of crime. So, when crime data is released in one year, the number of specific incidents for that year may eventually change.

It’s important to consider population changes when evaluating crime data because raw numbers need to be placed in perspective with the number of people affected by the crimes. To provide a consistent perspective on the extent of crime, offenses are commonly measured in rates per hundred thousand.

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