# Where the searches happen

> Forty-eight thousand searches, coloured by whether anything was found.

- Category: Crime
- Cadence: monthly
- Status: Published on a monthly cadence.
- Dataset key: `stop-search-points`
- 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/who-gets-searched-and-where](https://londongraph.com/g/who-gets-searched-and-where)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/who-gets-searched-and-where](https://londongraph.com/data/who-gets-searched-and-where)

## Methodology

Every geocoded Metropolitan Police stop and search in the last published months. Colour carries the outcome rather than the volume: a search recorded as a no further action disposal is one that led nowhere. Positions are snapped to anonymised points exactly as street crime is, so a cluster is real and a single dot is a neighbourhood.

## Visualisations

- [Search map](https://londongraph.com/g/who-gets-searched-and-where): Explore anonymised police.uk search locations by published month.
- [Hotspots](https://londongraph.com/g/who-gets-searched-and-where?view=hotspots): Aggregate visible searches into relative concentration while retaining true local counts.
- [Day and hour](https://londongraph.com/g/who-gets-searched-and-where?view=day-hour): Compare search counts across weekday and hour in a two-dimensional matrix.
- [Operational fields](https://londongraph.com/g/who-gets-searched-and-where?view=operational): Follow outcome linkage, operation status and outer-clothing-removal rates using each field's known-value denominator.

## Citation guidance

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