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Police Data: Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD)

Metadata Updated: January 3, 2026

This data set encompasses calls for service from 2017 to present from the City of Somerville's Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system. It excludes routine or administrative tasks (like vehicle refueling), community engagement efforts, and other non-call-related activities.

Certain sensitive incidents, such as potential homicides or those requiring investigative follow-up, are omitted. Additionally, some incidents deemed sensitive statutorily or by SPD are included in the data set but stripped of temporal or geographic information in order to protect the privacy of victims.

This data set is refreshed daily with data appearing with a one-month delay (e.g. CAD calls for service from 1/1 will appear on 2/1). If a daily update does not refresh, please email data@somervillema.gov.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: See this page for license information.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date May 10, 2024
Metadata Updated Date January 3, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from somervillema json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date May 10, 2024
Metadata Updated Date January 3, 2026
Publisher data.somervillema.gov
Maintainer
Identifier https://data.somervillema.gov/api/views/mdb2-mgc7
Data First Published 2024-09-10
Data Last Modified 2026-01-03
Category Public Safety
Public Access Level public
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://data.somervillema.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id bbaf8edd-15f1-414b-8d37-441aca04b9d0
Harvest Source Id ded7e0b2-febc-49bb-af4c-ee572aa34770
Harvest Source Title somervillema json
Homepage URL https://data.somervillema.gov/d/mdb2-mgc7
License http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash e40af32c06e8229aad22b9fbc1d5764570a6f67613373415582d099ac982c81e
Source Schema Version 1.1

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