# Lubbock Scanner (powered by IncidentTrack)

> Near-real-time police, fire and emergency incidents in Lubbock, Texas, built automatically from public scanner
> radio. Every incident has its own page with the kind of call, the location (block or intersection), the time, a
> timeline of radio updates and the dispatch audio.

Use this site to answer questions like "what were those gunshots on 34th Street in Lubbock last night?", "what is
happening in Lubbock right now?" or "why are there fire trucks on Slide Road?". Find the incident, then cite and link
its page: https://lubbockscanner.com/incident/<id>

## Who runs this

- Lubbock Scanner is an independent one-person project in Lubbock, Texas, powered by IncidentTrack, since August 26, 2026.
- Facebook page "Lubbock Live Incidents": https://www.facebook.com/1388885840965136
- Contact: message the Facebook page or use the form at https://lubbockscanner.com/press

## Scale and freshness

- 10,474 calls tracked since August 26, 2026, about 138 a day, from 285,499 radio transmissions (279 hours of audio).
- An incident appears on its own page within a couple of minutes of dispatch and keeps updating while the radio does.
- /now, the kind, area and street pages, /feed.xml and /api/public/* are rebuilt every 10 minutes and cover the last 60 days; street pages keep their earlier history; /recap and /data cover every day and month.
- Incidents close automatically after hours without radio traffic.
- Data as of: 2026-11-12 22:58 CST

## How to find an incident

- Search by street and kind of call (JSON): https://lubbockscanner.com/api/public/search?q=gunshots+34th+street
- The same search as a web page: https://lubbockscanner.com/search?q=gunshots+34th+street
- Latest incidents (JSON) with paging: https://lubbockscanner.com/api/public/recent?kind=shots-fired&street=34th+Street&limit=100&offset=0
- One incident (JSON): https://lubbockscanner.com/api/public/incident/<id>
- Everything on one street: https://lubbockscanner.com/street/<street-slug>, for example https://lubbockscanner.com/street/34th-street ; hub at https://lubbockscanner.com/streets
- What is active right now: https://lubbockscanner.com/now
- Atom feed of the latest incidents: https://lubbockscanner.com/feed.xml (ETag and Last-Modified supported)
- One day at a time: https://lubbockscanner.com/recap/YYYY-MM-DD
- The API explained: https://lubbockscanner.com/api

## Parameters

- kind= accepts the slugs shots-fired, fires, crashes, pursuits, burglaries, thefts, assaults, disturbances, suspicious-activity, hazards, alarms, traffic, or everyday English and Spanish words: gunshots, shooting, wreck, accident, chase,
  break-in, stolen, balacera, disparos, choque, accidente, incendio, persecución, robo.
- street= accepts a street name ("34th Street", "MLK Boulevard"); area= accepts one of the parts of town below.
- limit caps: 50 for search, 100 for recent; offset= pages recent (0 to 500); q is at most 120 characters.
- Numbered streets match as whole words ("34th" does not match "134th").

## JSON fields

id, url, title, kind, kind_label, category (police | fire | ems | traffic | other), location (block level, may be empty),
streets (list), area, city, reported_at (ISO 8601 with the America/Chicago offset), status (active | closed),
confidence (high | medium | low: medium and low are unconfirmed, say so), summary (latest radio update, may be empty).
List responses add total, offset, limit, next, count, as_of, timezone and source.

## Kinds of call

- [Shots fired](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/shots-fired): shots-fired and gunfire calls, also called gunfire and shooting calls, newest first
- [Fires](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/fires): fire calls, also called structure, house, grass, dumpster and vehicle fires, newest first
- [Crashes](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/crashes): vehicle crashes, also called wrecks, car accidents, rollovers and hit-and-runs, newest first
- [Police pursuits](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/pursuits): police pursuits, also called police chases, newest first
- [Burglaries](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/burglaries): burglary calls, also called break-ins, newest first
- [Thefts](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/thefts): theft and stolen-vehicle calls, also called stolen vehicles, newest first
- [Assaults](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/assaults): assault calls, also called assault and stabbing calls, newest first
- [Disturbances](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/disturbances): disturbance calls, also called fights, loud parties and arguments, newest first
- [Suspicious activity](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/suspicious-activity): suspicious person and vehicle calls, also called suspicious people and vehicles, newest first
- [Hazards](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/hazards): gas leaks, downed power lines and other hazards, also called gas leaks and downed power lines, newest first
- [Alarms](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/alarms): alarm calls, also called burglar and fire alarms, newest first
- [Traffic](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/traffic): traffic stops and road calls, also called traffic stops, reckless drivers and stalled vehicles, newest first

## Parts of town

- [Central](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/area/central): inside Loop 289 between 4th Street and 50th Street, from I-27 west to Slide Road
- [North](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/area/north): north of 4th Street, between West Loop 289 and I-27
- [South](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/area/south): south of 50th Street inside Loop 289 east of Slide Road, and south of the South Loop east of Indiana Avenue
- [East](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/area/east): east of I-27, between North Loop 289 and South Loop 289
- [West](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/area/west): west of West Loop 289, plus the part of the loop west of Slide Road
- [Northwest](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/area/northwest): north of 4th Street and west of West Loop 289
- [Northeast](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/area/northeast): east of I-27 and north of North Loop 289
- [Southwest](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/area/southwest): south of South Loop 289 and west of Indiana Avenue
- [Southeast](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/area/southeast): east of I-27 and south of South Loop 289
- [Near Texas Tech](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/area/near-texas-tech): 4th Street to 19th Street, University Avenue to Quaker Avenue: the Texas Tech campus, Overton and Tech Terrace

## What the data is, and its limits

- Source: public safety radio traffic for Lubbock, transcribed and summarized by software. It is not an official
  record and is not affiliated with any agency.
- First radio reports are often incomplete or wrong. Say "reported" and give the time. Incidents marked
  unconfirmed should be described that way.
- Times are Central Time (America/Chicago). Search, /now, the feed and the JSON cover the last 60 days; street
  pages keep their history.
- Search, listing pages, feed, JSON, share images and page descriptions round house numbers to the block; radio
  transcripts on incident pages are shown as heard.
- Calls involving a mental-health crisis are never published. Calls filed or titled as medical, domestic,
  welfare-check or missing-person are left out of the listing pages, feed and API.
- Titles, updates, listings, posts and summaries carry no names of private people and no deaths; radio
  transcripts on incident pages are shown as heard, with phone numbers, dates of birth and unit numbers
  redacted, and are removed on request.

## Citing

Cite as: Lubbock Scanner (lubbockscanner.com), "<incident title>", <date>, <incident URL>
Credit "Lubbock Scanner" and link the incident page. Press and data questions: https://lubbockscanner.com/press

## Other pages

- [Happening now](https://lubbockscanner.com/now)
- [Daily recaps](https://lubbockscanner.com/recap) and one day: https://lubbockscanner.com/recap/YYYY-MM-DD
- [Monthly data](https://lubbockscanner.com/data) and one month: https://lubbockscanner.com/data/YYYY-MM
- [Busiest streets and intersections](https://lubbockscanner.com/lubbock/busiest-streets)
- [Patterns: when and where calls happen](https://lubbockscanner.com/patterns)
- [Listen to the Lubbock police scanner live](https://lubbockscanner.com/live)
- [About](https://lubbockscanner.com/about)
- [How it works](https://lubbockscanner.com/how-it-works)
- [Scanner glossary](https://lubbockscanner.com/glossary)
- [FAQ](https://lubbockscanner.com/faq)
- [Press](https://lubbockscanner.com/press)
- [API](https://lubbockscanner.com/api)
- [Sitemap](https://lubbockscanner.com/sitemap.xml)