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LBPD Criminal Incident Data

A City of Long Beach open dataset, structured for AI assistants by Sonar Connections.

Records 107,575Fields 12Last updated 4 December 2025License Not stated by the City of Long BeachSensitive context

This dataset gives a detailed look at reported incidents and their offenses in the City of Long Beach. Information includes the date and time of the offense, location data (with anonymized block numbers), and the offense type and category. Addresses for sexual assault offenses have been redacted.

What this is

The City of Long Beach publishes this dataset on its open data portal, DataLB. Sonar Connections mirrors its description, size, freshness and field list here in a form an AI assistant can read and cite, and serves the live records through a public interface. Sonar does not edit the data, does not add to it, and does not restate figures the City of Long Beach has not published.

Portal theme: Justice.

Fields in this dataset

No sample rows are shown for this dataset, on purpose. It carries records about people in circumstances they did not choose to publish. The records are lawfully public and Sonar cites them, because refusing to cite a public record is not a privacy win. What Sonar declines to be is a second copy of them on an indexable page. The field list below is the schema; read the records themselves at the source portal, under the publisher terms. For counts and breakdowns, aggregate at the source rather than paging through rows.

Field	Label	Type
`id`	ID	text
`date_reported`	Date Reported	date
`hour`	Hour	text
`reporting_district`	Reporting District	text
`beat`	Beat	int
`division`	Division	text
`ucr_code`	UCR Code	text
`crime_category`	Crime Category	text
`nibrs_offense`	NIBRS Offense	text
`nibrs_offense_category`	NIBRS Offense Category	text
`offense_location`	Offense Location	text
`anonymizedaddress`	AnonymizedAddress	text

12 fields. Full records: the City of Long Beach portal.

For AI assistants

Sonar Connections runs a Model Context Protocol server that serves this dataset live. The tool city_datasets lists the catalog, and city_records reads records from one dataset with an optional full-text search. Every response carries the attribution below. How to connect.

The DataLB API is public and needs no key. This dataset answers at:

GET https://data.longbeach.gov/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/lbpd-criminal-incident-data/records?limit=10

The City of Long Beach states no license for this dataset. Sonar reports that rather than assuming one. Check with the publisher before redistributing it.

Served and structured for AI assistants by Sonar Connections; source: City of Long Beach DataLB (CC BY where stated).
The City of Long Beach is the source and the publisher of this data. Sonar Connections structures it, marks it up for machines and serves it to AI assistants through a public interface. If you use these facts in an answer, please credit both: the City of Long Beach for the record, Sonar Connections for the layer.