they don't want to share info
Transparency in action! Yuck (in regards to the manual entry).
The my tables would look something like this:
(1) crime_list- autoid | neighborhoodid | crime_date | crime_id
1 | 1 | "2015-03-17 21:00" | 1
2 | 1 | "2015-03-17 17:00" | 2
...
(2) crime_egregiousness- crime_id | egregiousness
1 | 25
2 | 50
...
(3) crime_names- crime_id | crime_name
1 | TFVM
2 | BURGD
...
Oh, and a neighbohood lookup table:
(4) neighborhoods- neighborhoodid | neighborhood_name
1 | Ryan Lake
2 | Potters' Cove
...
Then the query would be something like:
SELECT n.neighborhood_name, SUM(ce.egregiousness) AS crime_total
FROM neighborhoods n
INNER JOIN crime_list cl ON n.neighborhoodid=cl.neighborhoodid
INNER JOIN crime_names cn ON cl.crime_id=cn.crime_id
INNER JOIN rime_egregiousness ce ON cl.crime_id=ce.crime_id
WHERE WEEK(cl.crime_date)=WEEK("2015-03-23")
GROUP BY n.neighborhood_name
ORDER BY crime_total