As the NYPD polices by the numbers, a deep look at the data tells the story of law enforcement’s impact on neighborhood streets.
How does a plunging New York City murder rate look from a global perspective? We chart the numbers by neighborhood – from Libya to Poland to Vietnam.
The confounding decades-old legal case behind stop-and-frisk has left boundaries open to NYPD discretion — but for how long?
In which we navigate the multiple databases used by New York City courts and update our summonses map to include data from community courts in Brooklyn and Manhattan
The seed of this story was a question: Did data exist that could offer a more objective view into the issue of NYPD summonses and race than was being offered in impassioned and political editorials? We soon found out that very few people knew where to find such data or if it even existed.
Public housing projects are heavily represented among New York City’s 50 most frequent locations for police stops
Bronx Defenders survey of hundreds arrested for possession finds most were improperly forced to show drugs to police
Only 13 percent of the 4.3 million stops made by city police in the last decade have led to an arrest or summons
