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Allentown Police unveil public incident dashboard, ask residents for feedback
Summary
Chief Charles Roker and crime analyst Mary Jane Page demonstrated a new Allentown Police Department incident dashboard that displays anonymized, aggregated incident data back to Jan. 1, 2024. Officials said the dashboard updates nightly and asked the public for feedback as they plan future dashboards and functionality.
Chief Charles Roker and the Allentown Police Department demonstrated a new public incident dashboard at the Allentown City Public Safety Committee meeting and invited residents and community groups to provide feedback.
The dashboard, developed with vendor Esri, displays anonymized and aggregated incident data, including the past 24 hours and the previous three months in list form, counts of quality-of-life incidents, incidents by police geography (police service area and beat), violent- and property-crime categories under NIBRS, and filters by date, incident type and time. “This incident dashboard is the culmination of collaboration between our vendor Esri IT and our crime analysts,” Roker said. He added it “provides an increase in transparency and a means for our residents to be informed…
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