Stop & Frisk Inward Chicago

Last calendar week reviewed Stop in addition to Frisk, a information visualization of New York's controversial goal in addition to frisk policy. Of variety out The NYPD are non the alone constabulary strength to bring been criticized for practicing racial profiling inwards its work of stopping in addition to searching its citizens.

Stop in addition to Frisk inwards Chicago is an interactive map which visualizes information from constabulary contact cards betwixt 2014 in addition to 2016. The map shows the divulge of times people were stopped in addition to searched inwards each Chicago urban heart in addition to somebody block. If you lot hover over a block on the map you lot tin terminate thought the full divulge of goal & frisks carried out inwards that block. The map likewise allows you lot to thought the divulge of goal in addition to searches that were carried out inwards each block past times constabulary officers of unlike races (white, black, Hispanic).

The map was created past times the Lucy Parsons Labs. You tin terminate explore the information farther in addition to download it here. The code for the interactive map is likewise available at GitHub.