About Monmouth Reports

Where the Monmouth Data Comes From

Everything published for Monmouth comes from official government records. Police data comes from the Monmouth Police Department.

We ingest directly from the department’s public feed, the same data available to any resident or researcher.

We do not editorialize what we receive. How each source publishes, and how the record types relate, is documented in where the data comes from.

What We Publish for Monmouth

• Events — Every event the department handled, whether an officer started it or the public called it in. An event counts activity, not a confirmed crime; many events close with no offense at all.

How the Numbers Are Defined

The Activity Index is the single five-band reading shown across Monmouthpages. Each band is a ratio of a count to its own typical, so “Typical” always means about the same as usual for whatever the reading is measured against. The city gauge compares the latest settled day against the city’s own trailing 30-day median; a location badge compares that location’s last 7 days against its own typical week. The bands below are read directly from the function every page uses, so they cannot drift from what you see.

Daily reports reflect the prior day’s activity and are published the following morning; pages are dated by publication. Every statistic is computed by a documented method, and every event type is categorized by a published crosswalk.

Full definitions live in how the stats are defined and how we categorize.

What This Is Not

• Block-level only — the live map generalizes every event to its block, never an exact address, to prevent address-level stigmatization. It is a map of events, not a crime map: it shows all police activity, most of which involves no criminal offense.
• Not real-time. The weekly report covers the prior Monday through Sunday, published each Monday.
• Not a news outlet — we do not investigate, editorialize, or take policy positions.
• Not a surveillance tool — we do not publish individual identities or maintain publicly accessible person profiles.

The Full Methodology

Everything on this page is the short version. The complete, plain-English reference covers the platform end to end:

• Overview — The end-to-end journey from an official record to a published statistic.
• Where the data comes from — Per-city sources and agencies, and how record types differ.
• How we categorize — Category families and the full, live event-type-to-category crosswalk.
• How the stats are defined — The Activity Index and date alignment.
• Editorial standards — Every sentence is computed from data by fixed templates.
• Limitations & accuracy — What the figures can and cannot tell you.