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

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12-month frequency comparison

October 2024–September 2025
182
October 2025–September 2026
120
Change in monthly mean
-5.17

The two windows each contain 12 complete covered months. The magnitude of the change is 1.52-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.

Saved observations and fitted phases

Phase suggestions withheld: serial pattern remains in the candidate fits. Manual boundaries can explore, not confirm, a change.

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. Phase suggestions withheld: serial pattern remains in the candidate fits. Manual boundaries can explore, not confirm, a change. See the phase results table for dates, factors and uncertainty.1510501005001,0005,00010,00050,000100,000500,0001,000,000Reports per monthSingle-trend reference: 2016-10–2026-09Oct 2016: 18Nov 2016: 11Dec 2016: 16Jan 2017: 10Feb 2017: 14Mar 2017: 21Apr 2017: 22May 2017: 18Jun 2017: 12Jul 2017: 12Aug 2017: 10Sep 2017: 16Oct 2017: 10Nov 2017: 15Dec 2017: 9Jan 2018: 16Feb 2018: 20Mar 2018: 12Apr 2018: 13May 2018: 20Jun 2018: 13Jul 2018: 23Aug 2018: 19Sep 2018: 12Oct 2018: 19Nov 2018: 9Dec 2018: 12Jan 2019: 17Feb 2019: 18Mar 2019: 21Apr 2019: 15May 2019: 23Jun 2019: 20Jul 2019: 21Aug 2019: 23Sep 2019: 9Oct 2019: 11Nov 2019: 21Dec 2019: 23Jan 2020: 14Feb 2020: 17Mar 2020: 17Apr 2020: 1May 2020: 14Jun 2020: 2Jul 2020: 3Aug 2020: 8Sep 2020: 8Oct 2020: 8Nov 2020: 11Dec 2020: 14Jan 2021: 6Feb 2021: 6Mar 2021: 5Apr 2021: 4May 2021: 13Jun 2021: 7Jul 2021: 10Aug 2021: 11Sep 2021: 4Oct 2021: 5Nov 2021: 13Dec 2021: 5Jan 2022: 6Feb 2022: 8Mar 2022: 11Apr 2022: 10May 2022: 20Jun 2022: 10Jul 2022: 10Aug 2022: 11Sep 2022: 7Oct 2022: 11Nov 2022: 13Dec 2022: 13Jan 2023: 7Feb 2023: 5Mar 2023: 16Apr 2023: 8May 2023: 6Jun 2023: 10Jul 2023: 9Aug 2023: 7Sep 2023: 8Oct 2023: 8Nov 2023: 11Dec 2023: 8Jan 2024: 10Feb 2024: 9Mar 2024: 19Apr 2024: 14May 2024: 20Jun 2024: 18Jul 2024: 20Aug 2024: 15Sep 2024: 14Oct 2024: 25Nov 2024: 22Dec 2024: 7Jan 2025: 17Feb 2025: 14Mar 2025: 8Apr 2025: 27May 2025: 12Jun 2025: 16Jul 2025: 14Aug 2025: 12Sep 2025: 8Oct 2025: 10Nov 2025: 13Dec 2025: 10Jan 2026: 5Feb 2026: 8Mar 2026: 10Apr 2026: 9May 2026: 9Jun 2026: 5Jul 2026: 16Aug 2026: 20Sep 2026: 5ZeroUnknownOct 2016Oct 2017Oct 2018Oct 2019Oct 2020Oct 2021Oct 2022Oct 2023Oct 2024Oct 2025Oct 2026Calendar months

Single-trend reference · exploratory · per six months

  1. 1 · Oct 2016–Sep 2026÷1.02Direction uncertain

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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.
  • The best candidate failed the residual-independence diagnostic. A single-trend reference is shown instead; this does not establish a stable trend.
  • 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–September 2026120÷1.020.9672–1.00100.269
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 20265complete
August 202620complete
July 202616complete
June 20265complete
May 20269complete
April 20269complete
March 202610complete
February 20268complete
January 20265complete
December 202510complete
November 202513complete
October 202510complete
September 20258complete
August 202512complete
July 202514complete
June 202516complete
May 202512complete
April 202527complete
March 20258complete
February 202514complete
January 202517complete
December 20247complete
November 202422complete
October 202425complete
September 202414complete
August 202415complete
July 202420complete
June 202418complete
May 202420complete
April 202414complete
March 202419complete
February 20249complete
January 202410complete
December 20238complete
November 202311complete
October 20238complete
September 20238complete
August 20237complete
July 20239complete
June 202310complete
May 20236complete
April 20238complete
March 202316complete
February 20235complete
January 20237complete
December 202213complete
November 202213complete
October 202211complete
September 20227complete
August 202211complete
July 202210complete
June 202210complete
May 202220complete
April 202210complete
March 202211complete
February 20228complete
January 20226complete
December 20215complete
November 202113complete
October 20215complete
September 20214complete
August 202111complete
July 202110complete
June 20217complete
May 202113complete
April 20214complete
March 20215complete
February 20216complete
January 20216complete
December 202014complete
November 202011complete
October 20208complete
September 20208complete
August 20208complete
July 20203complete
June 20202complete
May 202014complete
April 20201complete
March 202017complete
February 202017complete
January 202014complete
December 201923complete
November 201921complete
October 201911complete
September 20199complete
August 201923complete
July 201921complete
June 201920complete
May 201923complete
April 201915complete
March 201921complete
February 201918complete
January 201917complete
December 201812complete
November 20189complete
October 201819complete
September 201812complete
August 201819complete
July 201823complete
June 201813complete
May 201820complete
April 201813complete
March 201812complete
February 201820complete
January 201816complete
December 20179complete
November 201715complete
October 201710complete
September 201716complete
August 201710complete
July 201712complete
June 201712complete
May 201718complete
April 201722complete
March 201721complete
February 201714complete
January 201710complete
December 201616complete
November 201611complete
October 201618complete
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-v2:20620ae170559898b8f70204e057c31a
Discovery method
multi-feed-turn-and-frequency-renewal-v2
Analyze method
exploratory-segmented-log10-ols-zero-as-one-v3
Search plan
a3ffccedeb8d8ce18a30df3636839f775af1e5188e55a1f685695133135c6e35
Evidence run
6690d7eaa0ace41f7427daa37781edb423c4058fc595fe9168236eec11fa43f3

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