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Shares are of all searches in the period, not of population — the comparison against London's demography is left to the reader rather than asserted here.","category":"crime","categoryLabel":"Crime","cadence":"monthly","placeholder":false,"landingPage":"https://londongraph.com/g/who-gets-stopped","markdown":"https://londongraph.com/g/who-gets-stopped/index.html.md","source":{"name":"Police.uk","url":"https://data.police.uk/","licence":"Open Government Licence v3.0","licenceUrl":"https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/"},"updatedAt":"2026-07-31T14:13:55.171Z","release":{"label":null,"publishedAt":null,"resourceUrl":null,"methodologyUrl":null,"sha256":null},"observations":[{"series":"Asian/Asian British","buckets":["2025-01","2025-02","2025-03","2025-04","2025-05","2025-06","2025-07","2025-08","2025-09","2025-10","2025-11","2025-12","2026-01","2026-02","2026-04","2026-05"],"values":[10.37,10.35,9.75,9.83,10.39,10.15,10.76,8.84,10.71,10.42,10.6,11.6,10.84,10.02,11.51,10.45],"unit":"% of searches","metadata":[{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{}]},{"series":"Black/African/Caribbean/Black British","buckets":["2025-01","2025-02","2025-03","2025-04","2025-05","2025-06","2025-07","2025-08","2025-09","2025-10","2025-11","2025-12","2026-01","2026-02","2026-04","2026-05"],"values":[24.24,23.57,23.94,23.84,24.52,25.72,24.59,27.6,24.72,24.04,24.18,23.54,24,23.85,25.8,18.06],"unit":"% of searches","metadata":[{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{}]},{"series":"Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups","buckets":["2025-01","2025-02","2025-03","2025-04","2025-05","2025-06","2025-07","2025-08","2025-09","2025-10","2025-11","2025-12","2026-01","2026-02","2026-04","2026-05"],"values":[4.3,4.95,5.1,4.92,5.01,4.69,4.97,4.33,5.1,5.05,4.23,4.58,4.82,5.28,5.18,5.06],"unit":"% of searches","metadata":[{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{}]},{"series":"Not stated","buckets":["2025-01","2025-02","2025-03","2025-04","2025-05","2025-06","2025-07","2025-08","2025-09","2025-10","2025-11","2025-12","2026-01","2026-02","2026-04","2026-05"],"values":[1.69,1.47,1.39,1.61,1.71,1.31,1.26,1.18,1.44,1.69,1.34,1.85,1.85,1.6,1.32,11.71],"unit":"% of searches","metadata":[{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{}]},{"series":"Other ethnic group","buckets":["2025-01","2025-02","2025-03","2025-04","2025-05","2025-06","2025-07","2025-08","2025-09","2025-10","2025-11","2025-12","2026-01","2026-02","2026-04","2026-05"],"values":[34.12,33.64,32.2,34.26,33.2,32.5,32.47,37.63,32.67,33.55,34.29,32.65,32.7,31.3,30.29,28.97],"unit":"% of searches","metadata":[{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{}]},{"series":"White","buckets":["2025-01","2025-02","2025-03","2025-04","2025-05","2025-06","2025-07","2025-08","2025-09","2025-10","2025-11","2025-12","2026-01","2026-02","2026-04","2026-05"],"values":[25.28,26.02,27.63,25.53,25.17,25.63,25.96,20.42,25.35,25.25,25.35,25.78,25.77,27.95,25.9,25.75],"unit":"% of searches","metadata":[{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{}]}],"areaStatistics":null,"visualizations":[{"id":"ethnicity","label":"Self-defined ethnicity","description":"Compare the published self-defined ethnicity-group shares by month.","url":"https://londongraph.com/g/who-gets-stopped","renderer":"primary","default":true,"timeControl":"inherit","datasets":[],"transform":null,"controls":null,"metrics":[],"caveat":null},{"id":"age-gender","label":"Age × gender","description":"Count recorded age-band and gender combinations across the six-month detail window.","url":"https://londongraph.com/g/who-gets-stopped?view=age-gender","renderer":"matrix","default":false,"timeControl":"inherit","datasets":["search-age-gender"],"transform":null,"controls":null,"metrics":[],"caveat":"Cells below ten searches are suppressed; these administrative fields may be missing or recorded inconsistently."},{"id":"ethnicity-outcome","label":"Ethnicity × outcome","description":"Compare broad recorded outcomes within self-defined ethnicity groups.","url":"https://londongraph.com/g/who-gets-stopped?view=ethnicity-outcome","renderer":"matrix","default":false,"timeControl":"inherit","datasets":["search-ethnicity-outcome"],"transform":null,"controls":null,"metrics":[],"caveat":"This accountability view is descriptive, uses broad outcomes, suppresses cells below ten, and does not infer individual behaviour."},{"id":"legislation","label":"Legislation","description":"Follow the legal power recorded for searches over the detailed six-month window.","url":"https://londongraph.com/g/who-gets-stopped?view=legislation","renderer":"small-multiples","default":false,"timeControl":"inherit","datasets":["search-legislation"],"transform":null,"controls":null,"metrics":[],"caveat":null}],"availability":"observations","note":"The release is complete for the measures represented on the graph page."}