Every Stop-And-Frisk Performed In New York Last Year, By Race And Location
By Tessa Stuart
The NYPD performed 532,911 stop-and-frisks in 2012, and for each stop an officer wrote a report. Every three months, when the reports are released, the New York Civil Liberties Union collects the information in a database.
In addition to things like race, gender, date, and time, "the data include the age of person stopped, if a person was frisked, if there was a weapon or firearm recovered, if physical force was used, and the exact location of the stop within the precinct," the NYCLU says, and it can be mined or visualized.
In fact, they encourage it--the organization makes the data available for download, so anyone can play around with it, controlling for 101 different variables.
Last week, Mark Hansen, a professor at Columbia Journalism School, asked his students to do just that, and the results, which were tweeted out by Damien Spleeters, a student in the class, are striking.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/08/every_stop-and-.php