Selected research example

West Town robbery reports: 241 to 91 across two annual windows

ROBBERY · all other available filters

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
241
October 2025–September 2026
91
Change in monthly mean
-12.5

The two windows each contain 12 complete covered months. The magnitude of the change is 2.65-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.

How to read this example

The saved West Town robbery series is an example of a frequency finding that should not be relabeled as a confirmed turning point. Its two raw annual totals are different, but the native phase analysis withholds suggested turns because serial pattern remains in the candidate fits. The displayed line is a single-trend reference, not a finding that the decline began at a particular month.

The comparison uses October 2024–September 2025 and October 2025–September 2026. Equal-length windows make the arithmetic directly comparable and include each season once. They do not adjust for changes in population, exposure, reporting or record classification. The result describes the dated published snapshot, not today’s final tally or an individual’s risk.

A useful follow-up would compare the unfiltered community total, related categories and nearby communities over the same dates. A pattern that disappears under those comparisons would challenge a broad interpretation. None of those follow-ups has been performed by this preview, and no policy, enforcement or demographic cause is established here.

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: 42Nov 2016: 36Dec 2016: 35Jan 2017: 25Feb 2017: 24Mar 2017: 24Apr 2017: 28May 2017: 19Jun 2017: 29Jul 2017: 44Aug 2017: 63Sep 2017: 32Oct 2017: 43Nov 2017: 57Dec 2017: 37Jan 2018: 31Feb 2018: 23Mar 2018: 13Apr 2018: 16May 2018: 32Jun 2018: 19Jul 2018: 18Aug 2018: 37Sep 2018: 21Oct 2018: 27Nov 2018: 26Dec 2018: 25Jan 2019: 25Feb 2019: 11Mar 2019: 15Apr 2019: 8May 2019: 22Jun 2019: 28Jul 2019: 19Aug 2019: 26Sep 2019: 21Oct 2019: 15Nov 2019: 24Dec 2019: 27Jan 2020: 17Feb 2020: 16Mar 2020: 10Apr 2020: 5May 2020: 11Jun 2020: 14Jul 2020: 25Aug 2020: 45Sep 2020: 31Oct 2020: 28Nov 2020: 25Dec 2020: 16Jan 2021: 29Feb 2021: 22Mar 2021: 12Apr 2021: 8May 2021: 20Jun 2021: 22Jul 2021: 24Aug 2021: 34Sep 2021: 42Oct 2021: 55Nov 2021: 59Dec 2021: 34Jan 2022: 22Feb 2022: 29Mar 2022: 14Apr 2022: 16May 2022: 23Jun 2022: 25Jul 2022: 44Aug 2022: 27Sep 2022: 55Oct 2022: 42Nov 2022: 31Dec 2022: 80Jan 2023: 34Feb 2023: 15Mar 2023: 32Apr 2023: 25May 2023: 18Jun 2023: 43Jul 2023: 67Aug 2023: 76Sep 2023: 55Oct 2023: 72Nov 2023: 43Dec 2023: 26Jan 2024: 23Feb 2024: 17Mar 2024: 35Apr 2024: 23May 2024: 35Jun 2024: 29Jul 2024: 23Aug 2024: 18Sep 2024: 25Oct 2024: 24Nov 2024: 25Dec 2024: 37Jan 2025: 43Feb 2025: 17Mar 2025: 18Apr 2025: 7May 2025: 11Jun 2025: 23Jul 2025: 11Aug 2025: 15Sep 2025: 10Oct 2025: 8Nov 2025: 7Dec 2025: 7Jan 2026: 12Feb 2026: 8Mar 2026: 4Apr 2026: 8May 2026: 5Jun 2026: 11Jul 2026: 9Aug 2026: 6Sep 2026: 6ZeroUnknownOct 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÷1.04Direction uncertain (serial pattern)

Check the evidence

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.
  • Serial pattern in residuals: independence is doubtful; the reported intervals may be too narrow. Seasonality is not modeled.
  • 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÷1.040.9465–0.983500.679
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 20266complete
August 20266complete
July 20269complete
June 202611complete
May 20265complete
April 20268complete
March 20264complete
February 20268complete
January 202612complete
December 20257complete
November 20257complete
October 20258complete
September 202510complete
August 202515complete
July 202511complete
June 202523complete
May 202511complete
April 20257complete
March 202518complete
February 202517complete
January 202543complete
December 202437complete
November 202425complete
October 202424complete
September 202425complete
August 202418complete
July 202423complete
June 202429complete
May 202435complete
April 202423complete
March 202435complete
February 202417complete
January 202423complete
December 202326complete
November 202343complete
October 202372complete
September 202355complete
August 202376complete
July 202367complete
June 202343complete
May 202318complete
April 202325complete
March 202332complete
February 202315complete
January 202334complete
December 202280complete
November 202231complete
October 202242complete
September 202255complete
August 202227complete
July 202244complete
June 202225complete
May 202223complete
April 202216complete
March 202214complete
February 202229complete
January 202222complete
December 202134complete
November 202159complete
October 202155complete
September 202142complete
August 202134complete
July 202124complete
June 202122complete
May 202120complete
April 20218complete
March 202112complete
February 202122complete
January 202129complete
December 202016complete
November 202025complete
October 202028complete
September 202031complete
August 202045complete
July 202025complete
June 202014complete
May 202011complete
April 20205complete
March 202010complete
February 202016complete
January 202017complete
December 201927complete
November 201924complete
October 201915complete
September 201921complete
August 201926complete
July 201919complete
June 201928complete
May 201922complete
April 20198complete
March 201915complete
February 201911complete
January 201925complete
December 201825complete
November 201826complete
October 201827complete
September 201821complete
August 201837complete
July 201818complete
June 201819complete
May 201832complete
April 201816complete
March 201813complete
February 201823complete
January 201831complete
December 201737complete
November 201757complete
October 201743complete
September 201732complete
August 201763complete
July 201744complete
June 201729complete
May 201719complete
April 201728complete
March 201724complete
February 201724complete
January 201725complete
December 201635complete
November 201636complete
October 201642complete
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-v2:94d10ed8dd92a89a2fc33d705e4cc916
Discovery method
multi-feed-turn-and-frequency-renewal-v2
Analyze method
exploratory-segmented-log10-ols-zero-as-one-v3
Search plan
a3ffccedeb8d8ce18a30df3636839f775af1e5188e55a1f685695133135c6e35
Evidence run
4bc60afb87e9f8db04f68e112878b805854838ab561dc97e030cb20c9a695a5e

Challenge the pattern

Check unfiltered totals, comparable communities, source revisions and administrative definitions before treating this candidate as evidence of a real-world explanation. Only explicitly documented follow-ups above have been performed; no others are implied by the ranking. Browse the other crime reports candidates or review the complete screening method.