Crime Radar - Michael Lindsay

Between January 2015 and April 2026 the Portland Police Bureau logged 681,927 offenses.

The console below sweeps 136 months of reports. Brightness is density, binned to a grid of roughly 445 by 315 meter cells and smoothed for display. Press play and watch the ebb and flow of reported offenses around the city.

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609,711 geocoded Portland Police Bureau offenses, January 2015 through April 2026, binned to a 0.004° grid and smoothed for display. The colour scale is held fixed across all 136 months and clipped at the 99.5th percentile, so brightness means the same thing in every frame. Every ring is the reports within 200 m of the pin, in the month on screen, under the filter that is on.