# What a search produced

> What happened after each recorded stop and search.

- Category: Crime
- Cadence: monthly
- Status: Published on a monthly cadence.
- Dataset key: `search-outcomes`
- Source: [Police.uk](https://data.police.uk/)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/what-a-search-produced](https://londongraph.com/g/what-a-search-produced)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/what-a-search-produced](https://londongraph.com/data/what-a-search-produced)

## Methodology

The recorded outcome of Metropolitan Police stop and search, as a share of all searches in each month. A no further action disposal is the force's own category; it is not rewritten as nothing found. Missing outcomes remain Not recorded. The linked object-by-outcome view counts the same searches jointly and suppresses combinations containing fewer than ten records.

## Visualisations

- [Outcomes](https://londongraph.com/g/what-a-search-produced): The recorded result of each stop and search.
- [Share over time](https://londongraph.com/g/what-a-search-produced?view=share): How the recorded outcome mix changed across published months.
- [Outcome linkage](https://londongraph.com/g/what-a-search-produced?view=linked-rate): Follow the share explicitly recorded as linked to the object of search, alongside operation and clothing-removal fields with their own known-value denominators. Caveat: Each line uses only records where that field is explicitly known; missing values are not treated as no.
- [Object × outcome](https://londongraph.com/g/what-a-search-produced?view=object-outcome): Count the jointly recorded object and outcome for the latest month. Caveat: Cells with fewer than ten searches are suppressed before publication.

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