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What a Cincinnati report will not tell you

The gaps, named: no year built, no unit count, a crime archive whose coordinate columns are transposed, and a register that publishes no address at all.

Everything below is a gap we know about and say out loud. An empty space in a report is never a clean bill.

No year built, no unit count, no floor area

The county's parcel record carries the value, the class, the acreage and the sale, and it does not carry the age of the building, how many units are in it, or how big it is. Those are three of the facts a San Francisco report leads with. They show as gaps here rather than as zeros, because a zero would read as a finding.

The crime archive's coordinates are transposed

The city publishes crime in two datasets either side of 3 June 2024, when it changed how it reports. In the older one the latitude and longitude columns are swapped: the column labelled latitude holds the longitude and vice versa. This report reads them the way they behave rather than the way they are labelled. Anyone querying that dataset themselves should know, because read at face value every record lands in the Southern Ocean and the city looks empty.

The two crime datasets are never added together

They are different vocabularies on either side of the change, so the report counts them separately and says which is which. Adding them would produce a number that means nothing.

The vacant register publishes no address

The city requires empty and foreclosed buildings to be registered and publishes 7,193 of them, and the file carries no street address on any row — only a coordinate and a neighbourhood. So there is no vacant-registration filing list here, because a filing list is an address and a fact. Barricading covers similar ground and does carry the address.

Fire is dispatches, not fires

The fire feed is the dispatch record and includes EMS. Medical emergencies are its largest group by a wide margin, so a count of it is not a count of fires and the card says so.

Counts run 7 September 2026.

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