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City source retrieved November 5, 2026 · scan evaluated November 9, 2026 · celeration turn + frequency change

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12-month frequency comparison

October 2024–September 2025
284
October 2025–September 2026
166
Change in monthly mean
-9.83

The two windows each contain 12 complete covered months. The magnitude of the change is 1.71-fold. These are published reports, not a population-adjusted rate. Fixed windows do not establish a breakpoint, remove all seasonal effects or prove a renewal explanation.

Celeration turns: changes between fitted phases

A factor describes a standardized six-month multiplier, not a count. These turns passed the scan’s volume and magnitude gates; phase selection remains exploratory.

  • Suggested boundary February 2024: ×1.35 → ÷1.19 per six months; 1.61× change between factors. Adjacent raw phase totals: 290 and 646. The fitted slope signs reverse.

Saved observations and fitted phases

Suggested 3-phase description — exploratory, not confirmed.

Fixed six-log-cycle frame · 120 calendar months · factors per six months. Raw zeros stay zero; confirmed zeros become one only for log-space fitting and diagnostics. Missing coverage remains unavailable.

Monthly crime reports on a standard celeration chartCity of Chicago published records. Fixed six-decade count scale, 120 calendar months, celeration per 6 months. Zero markers are unconnected below the plot. Exact counts and coverage are available in the data table. Analyze: suggested. Suggested 3-phase description — exploratory, not confirmed. See the phase results table for dates, factors and uncertainty.1510501005001,0005,00010,00050,000100,000500,0001,000,000Reports per monthsuggested phase 1: 2016-10–2020-12suggested phase 2: 2021-01–2024-01suggested phase 3: 2024-02–2026-09Oct 2016: 1Nov 2016: 5Dec 2016: 6Jan 2017: 4Feb 2017: 3Mar 2017: 8Apr 2017: 5May 2017: 8Jun 2017: 4Jul 2017: 8Aug 2017: 12Sep 2017: 4Oct 2017: 8Nov 2017: 5Dec 2017: 5Jan 2018: 4Feb 2018: 4Mar 2018: 8Apr 2018: 5May 2018: 3Jun 2018: 10Jul 2018: 10Aug 2018: 15Sep 2018: 10Oct 2018: 11Nov 2018: 9Dec 2018: 7Jan 2019: 6Feb 2019: 5Mar 2019: 13Apr 2019: 3May 2019: 3Jun 2019: 7Jul 2019: 9Aug 2019: 33Sep 2019: 10Oct 2019: 8Nov 2019: 21Dec 2019: 7Jan 2020: 14Feb 2020: 12Mar 2020: 8Apr 2020: 3May 2020: 14Jun 2020: 9Jul 2020: 3Aug 2020: 5Sep 2020: 9Oct 2020: 2Nov 2020: 3Dec 2020: 7Jan 2021: 3Feb 2021: 3Mar 2021: 2Apr 2021: 6May 2021: 5Jun 2021: 4Jul 2021: 7Aug 2021: 1Sep 2021: 1Oct 2021: 6Nov 2021: 10Dec 2021: 2Jan 2022: 3Feb 2022: 6Mar 2022: 12Apr 2022: 4May 2022: 7Jun 2022: 4Jul 2022: 4Aug 2022: 4Sep 2022: 5Oct 2022: 9Nov 2022: 10Dec 2022: 8Jan 2023: 9Feb 2023: 10Mar 2023: 13Apr 2023: 3May 2023: 15Jun 2023: 11Jul 2023: 10Aug 2023: 16Sep 2023: 12Oct 2023: 10Nov 2023: 18Dec 2023: 18Jan 2024: 19Feb 2024: 29Mar 2024: 29Apr 2024: 28May 2024: 15Jun 2024: 23Jul 2024: 27Aug 2024: 19Sep 2024: 26Oct 2024: 22Nov 2024: 23Dec 2024: 20Jan 2025: 34Feb 2025: 28Mar 2025: 24Apr 2025: 31May 2025: 14Jun 2025: 15Jul 2025: 33Aug 2025: 28Sep 2025: 12Oct 2025: 27Nov 2025: 12Dec 2025: 5Jan 2026: 16Feb 2026: 15Mar 2026: 14Apr 2026: 19May 2026: 7Jun 2026: 11Jul 2026: 13Aug 2026: 13Sep 2026: 14ZeroUnknownOct 2016Oct 2017Oct 2018Oct 2019Oct 2020Oct 2021Oct 2022Oct 2023Oct 2024Oct 2025Oct 2026Calendar months

Suggested phases · exploratory · per six months

  1. 1 · Oct 2016–Dec 2020×1.05Direction uncertain
  2. 2 · Jan 2021–Jan 2024×1.35Fitted increase
  3. 3 · Feb 2024–Sep 2026÷1.19Fitted decrease

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Interpretation and limitations (10)
  • Exploratory description, not a forecast, causal explanation or proof of a change.
  • Approximate 95% factor intervals assume independent, constant-variance log residuals and fixed boundaries. They do not account for boundary search, serial dependence or source revisions.
  • Confirmed zeros are treated as 1 only for fitting and its diagnostics. Raw counts stay zero; low-count results depend on this convention.
  • Independent phase lines may jump at boundaries. Every observation belongs to exactly one phase.
  • Reporting, classifications and seasonality can change. Counts are not population-adjusted; a level shift without a slope change is not the target of this search.
  • Uses dated last-good cached data, not newly verified source counts.
  • Boundary ranges show near-optimal models within 2 BIC units, not confidence intervals. They can be narrow even when the model is uncertain.
  • At least one factor interval includes 1; its direction is uncertain under this approximation.
  • Many dependent filter conditions were searched. No multiple-testing-adjusted significance or causal attribution is claimed.
  • Frequency compares fixed equal-length windows of raw counts, not population risk or a celeration-factor ratio. Reporting, classifications and exposure may have changed.
Phase diagnostics

Intervals assume fixed boundaries and independent log residuals. They are not adjusted for the phase or filter search. Near-optimal boundary ranges are not confidence intervals.

Saved phase results
PhaseStart–endMonthsFactor / six monthsConditional 95% intervalZeros fitted as 1Lag-one residual
1October 2016–December 202051×1.050.9803–1.13300.168
2January 2021–January 202437×1.351.218–1.49500.000
3February 2024–September 202632÷1.190.7683–0.912600.001

Near-optimal boundary range: November 2020–January 2021.

Near-optimal boundary range: December 2023–May 2025.

Exact monthly observations (120 slots)

Newest first. Unknown coverage is not a zero. These are the original saved observations, not fitted or rounded predictions.

Raw monthly reports
MonthRaw countCoverage
September 202614complete
August 202613complete
July 202613complete
June 202611complete
May 20267complete
April 202619complete
March 202614complete
February 202615complete
January 202616complete
December 20255complete
November 202512complete
October 202527complete
September 202512complete
August 202528complete
July 202533complete
June 202515complete
May 202514complete
April 202531complete
March 202524complete
February 202528complete
January 202534complete
December 202420complete
November 202423complete
October 202422complete
September 202426complete
August 202419complete
July 202427complete
June 202423complete
May 202415complete
April 202428complete
March 202429complete
February 202429complete
January 202419complete
December 202318complete
November 202318complete
October 202310complete
September 202312complete
August 202316complete
July 202310complete
June 202311complete
May 202315complete
April 20233complete
March 202313complete
February 202310complete
January 20239complete
December 20228complete
November 202210complete
October 20229complete
September 20225complete
August 20224complete
July 20224complete
June 20224complete
May 20227complete
April 20224complete
March 202212complete
February 20226complete
January 20223complete
December 20212complete
November 202110complete
October 20216complete
September 20211complete
August 20211complete
July 20217complete
June 20214complete
May 20215complete
April 20216complete
March 20212complete
February 20213complete
January 20213complete
December 20207complete
November 20203complete
October 20202complete
September 20209complete
August 20205complete
July 20203complete
June 20209complete
May 202014complete
April 20203complete
March 20208complete
February 202012complete
January 202014complete
December 20197complete
November 201921complete
October 20198complete
September 201910complete
August 201933complete
July 20199complete
June 20197complete
May 20193complete
April 20193complete
March 201913complete
February 20195complete
January 20196complete
December 20187complete
November 20189complete
October 201811complete
September 201810complete
August 201815complete
July 201810complete
June 201810complete
May 20183complete
April 20185complete
March 20188complete
February 20184complete
January 20184complete
December 20175complete
November 20175complete
October 20178complete
September 20174complete
August 201712complete
July 20178complete
June 20174complete
May 20178complete
April 20175complete
March 20178complete
February 20173complete
January 20174complete
December 20166complete
November 20165complete
October 20161complete
Source and reproducibility
Publisher dataset
Crimes — 2001 to Present · City of Chicago
Source retrieved
2026-11-05T21:08:01.557Z
Publisher update
2026-11-05T12:12:19.000Z
Covered months
October 2016–September 2026
Source note
Source ijzp-q8t2. Joint day/category/hour/applicable-flag/ward/status counts; no addresses, coordinates or incident identifiers. Each year's cells reconcile with an independent source total. Reads are not an atomic publisher snapshot. Published crime reports, not population-adjusted rates or final incidence. Prepared daily community-area snapshot; scheduled rebuild at 06:00 America/Chicago. Full supported history is rechecked for corrections. Retrieval timestamps are preserved; this is not a real-time feed. Crime analysis starts January 1, 2002; 2001 is excluded from counts and fitting inputs. Local indexed neighborhood snapshot. Totals are for the loaded area before other filters, not citywide totals. Citywide and unassigned-area views use a separate network-backed scope.
Snapshot
daily-v1:ef0c5e9b-09d5-4a2d-849e-1be6745dbfbb:neighborhood-v2:417f887a6d33021eed941647f3ac32fb
Discovery method
multi-feed-turn-and-frequency-renewal-v2
Analyze method
exploratory-segmented-log10-ols-zero-as-one-v3
Search plan
a3ffccedeb8d8ce18a30df3636839f775af1e5188e55a1f685695133135c6e35
Evidence run
aa61b346d2d62a9a772de6cc882a9c3d123575e94672d0724a892512e612a2d7

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