The Long Beach Police Department launched a new interactive crime dashboard Thursday, designed to provide the community with easy access to timely crime statistics and citywide data.
"This is a way to share information that we've historically had difficulty in sharing because of the technology that was available to us," said Long Beach Police Chief Wally Hebeish.
According to the police department, the new crime dashboard is split into four main sections: city overview, crime trends, beat explorer, and the extract page.
City overview
This section gives an overview of total offenses and breaks them down by crime type. Residents can even filter the crimes by date and compare them to the same statistics from the previous year.
Crime trends
This is where residents can get insights into crime trends, including time range, division and the type of offense.
The page features a monthly trend chart, displays the most common offense types, and provides a breakdown of offenses by beat and division. It also has data on crimes listed by time of day and day of the week.
Beat Explorer
This lets residents get more information within specific police beats and even has a map showing just how many crimes have been committed across different beats.
Extract page
If residents want to download any data, this is the page to do it.
The enables users to perform their own analyses "while ensuring the privacy of sensitive information," according to the department.
"This really empowers the community to get much more granular with the information and understand really more location-specific and date-and-time specific," said Reid Branche-Wilson, the Administrator of the Department's Office of Constitutional Policing who was a part of the team that created the new dashboard.
The Department will continue to publish PDFs through January 2026. After that date, an archive of previously published PDFs will still be available on our Crime Statistics Archive webpage.
The dashboard refreshes daily, with a 21-day delay for crime incident reporting. To learn more, click here.