Jacob Miller
Embedded Analyst
Expertise
Jacob Miller is an Embedded Analyst for the Crime Lab. During his time at the Crime Lab, Jacob has been embedded in a number of public safety organizations in Chicago for the purpose of helping those organizations use their data to solve problems more effectively. He has used that experience to build domain knowledge in public safety data and applied that to several projects at the Crime Lab.
Jacob holds a BA in Sociology from Loyola University Chicago.
Webinar: Overview of the City of Chicago’s Violence Reduction Dashboard
Launched in May 2021 by the City of Chicago, with design and technical support from the Crime Lab, the Dashboard is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive tool that allows unfettered public access to city violence trends categorizable by victim type, date, and geographic area.
Video about the Narcotics Arrest Diversion Program
This video provides an overview of the Crime Lab’s evaluation of the Narcotics Arrest Diversion Program, a program implemented by the community behavioral health provider Thresholds.
2023 End-of-Year Analysis: Chicago Crime Trends
These slides present our end-of-year analysis on Chicago crime trends.
Chicago Fire Department Technical Assistance
Crime Lab data analysts were embedded in the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) division of the Chicago Fire Department (CFD) to generate data dashboards and visualizations using data from patient care reports.
Violence Reduction Dashboard
The Violence Reduction Dashboard (VRD) is a publicly available visualization and analysis tool that provides greater transparency and accessibility to near-real-time violent crime data in the city of Chicago.
Latest Updates
Jens Ludwig and Jacob Miller: We are seeing a lethal shift in America’s gun violence crisis
The Crime Lab’s Pritzker director Jens Ludwig and analyst Jacob Miller provide commentary on the increase in the lethality of shootings despite the decrease in overall gun violence last year.
