Commit `1e8c059eee`

1e8c059eeeafa07ff220a9e9f874d879cefff113

parent: b9daf53bf9

Verified · cmc

cmc <hello@cleberg.net> · 2026-08-23 21:37 UTC

Rename the project to omaha-metro-blotter

The repo covers six agencies across two states, ALPR camera locations
and Flock search audits, not just Omaha incidents. Updates the user
agent, the site footer link, the nfo banner and a stale opd_csv
reference in the usage block.

Layout: unified · split

README.nfo +7 −6

 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
-│  O M A H A   I N C I D E N T S             [ KRZ ]   krz.sh  │
+│  O M A H A   M E T R O   B L O T T E R     [ KRZ ]   krz.sh  │
 └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 WHAT
-  police activity across the omaha metro, pulled from the agencies'
+  an archive of police activity and alpr surveillance across the
-  own feeds and joined against alpr camera locations from
+  omaha metro, pulled from the agencies' own feeds. sarpy county,
-  openstreetmap.
+  council bluffs and the flock portals all serve rolling windows and
+  delete what falls outside them; this keeps it.
 COVERAGE
   omaha pd                dcgis arcgis view, 2022-01-01 onward,
       .venv/bin/python ingest.py --full        # first run, backfill
       .venv/bin/python ingest.py               # daily, last 30 days
       .venv/bin/python ingest.py cbpd sarpy    # one source at a time
-      .venv/bin/python ingest.py opd_csv       # 2015-2023 csv archive
+      .venv/bin/python ingest.py opd_archive   # omaha 2015-2021 backfill
       .venv/bin/python app.py
 SITE
   to run the pull locally instead:
-      0 6 * * *  cd /path/to/omaha-incidents && .venv/bin/python ingest.py
+      0 6 * * *  cd /path/to/omaha-metro-blotter && .venv/bin/python ingest.py
 RAW
   raw_records keeps the feed's own json for every version of every

fetch_boundaries.py +1 −1

	@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def fetch(layer):
38	"maxAllowableOffset": TOLERANCE, "f": "geojson"}	38	"maxAllowableOffset": TOLERANCE, "f": "geojson"}
39	url = layer["url"] + "/query?" + urllib.parse.urlencode(params)	39	url = layer["url"] + "/query?" + urllib.parse.urlencode(params)
40	# Sarpy's MapServer 403s the default Python-urllib agent	40	# Sarpy's MapServer 403s the default Python-urllib agent
41	req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "omaha-incidents/1.0"})	41	req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "omaha-metro-blotter/1.0"})
42	with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=120, context=CTX) as r:	42	with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=120, context=CTX) as r:
43	return json.load(r)	43	return json.load(r)
44		44

ingest.py +2 −2

site_template.html +1 −1

	@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ footer a { color: var(--text-secondary); }
152		152
153	<footer>	153	<footer>
154	<p>Built from the agencies' own published feeds: the Omaha Police incident view on DCGIS, the Sarpy County PublicCrimeMap, the Council Bluffs public calls-for-service feed, and the Flock Safety transparency portals. Camera locations from OpenStreetMap contributors, <a href="https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/">ODbL</a>.</p>	154	<p>Built from the agencies' own published feeds: the Omaha Police incident view on DCGIS, the Sarpy County PublicCrimeMap, the Council Bluffs public calls-for-service feed, and the Flock Safety transparency portals. Camera locations from OpenStreetMap contributors, <a href="https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/">ODbL</a>.</p>
155	<p>The Sarpy County and Council Bluffs feeds keep a rolling twelve months and drop what falls outside it. This archive keeps what they drop. Source and the full database: <a href="https://github.com/krazywarez/omaha-incidents">github.com/krazywarez/omaha-incidents</a>.</p>	155	<p>The Sarpy County and Council Bluffs feeds keep a rolling twelve months and drop what falls outside it. This archive keeps what they drop. Source and the full database: <a href="https://github.com/krazywarez/omaha-metro-blotter">github.com/krazywarez/omaha-metro-blotter</a>.</p>
156	</footer>	156	</footer>
157	</div>	157	</div>
158		158

	@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ def get(url, params, retries=4):
128	for attempt in range(retries):	128	for attempt in range(retries):
129	try:	129	try:
130	req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=body,	130	req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=body,
131	headers={"User-Agent": "omaha-incidents/1.0"})	131	headers={"User-Agent": "omaha-metro-blotter/1.0"})
132	with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=120, context=SSL_CTX) as r:	132	with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=120, context=SSL_CTX) as r:
133	payload = json.load(r)	133	payload = json.load(r)
134	except (urllib.error.URLError, TimeoutError, json.JSONDecodeError) as e:	134	except (urllib.error.URLError, TimeoutError, json.JSONDecodeError) as e:
	@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ def ingest_opd_archive(conn, _since):
321	rows, seen = [], {}	321	rows, seen = [], {}
322	for year in OPD_ARCHIVE_YEARS:	322	for year in OPD_ARCHIVE_YEARS:
323	url = OPD_ARCHIVE.format(y=year)	323	url = OPD_ARCHIVE.format(y=year)
324	req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "omaha-incidents/1.0"})	324	req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "omaha-metro-blotter/1.0"})
325	with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=180, context=SSL_CTX) as r:	325	with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=180, context=SSL_CTX) as r:
326	text = r.read().decode("utf-8-sig", "replace")	326	text = r.read().decode("utf-8-sig", "replace")
327	reader = csv.DictReader(text.splitlines())	327	reader = csv.DictReader(text.splitlines())

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