Minneapolis Police Department 2017 Stop Data

Results of nearly all stops made by the Minneapolis Police Department for the year 2017.

Format

A data frame with 51857 observations on the following 14 variables.

idNum

character vector of incident identifiers

date

a POSIXlt date variable giving the date and time of the stop

problem

a factor with levels suspicious for suspicious vehicle or person stops and traffic for traffic stops

citationIssued

a factor with levels no yes indicating if a citation was issued

personSearch

a factor with levels no yes indicating if the stopped person was searched

vehicleSearch

a factor with levels no or yes indicating if a vehicle was searched

preRace

a factor with levels white, black, east african, latino, native american, asian, other, unknown for the officer's assessment of race of the person stopped before speaking with the person stopped

race

a factor with levels white, black, east african, latino, native american, asian, other, unknown, officer's determination of race after the incident

gender

a factor with levels female, male, unknown, gender of person stopped

lat

latitude of the location of the incident, somewhat rounded

long

latitude of the location of the incident, somewhat rounded

policePrecinct

Minneapolis Police Precinct number

neighborhood

a factor with 84 levels giving the name of the Minneapolis neighborhood of the incident

MDC

a factor with levels mdc for data collected via in-vehicle computer, and other for data submitted by officers not in a vehicle, either on foot, bicycle or horseback. Several of the variables above were recorded only in-vehicle

Details

A few stops have been deleted, either because thesu location data was missing, or a few very rare categories were also removed. The data frame MplsDemo contains 2015 demongraphic data on Minneapolis neighborhoods, using the same neighborhood names as this data file. Demographics are available for 84 of Minneaolis' 87 neighborhoods. The remaining 3 presumably have no housing.

Source

These are public data obtained from <http://opendata.minneapolismn.gov/datasets/police-stop-data>. A few more fields, and more data, are available at the original source

Examples

summary(MplsStops)
#>        idNum            date                              problem     
#>  17-000003:    1   Min.   :2017-01-01 00:00:42.00   suspicious:25822  
#>  17-000007:    1   1st Qu.:2017-03-29 08:35:09.00   traffic   :26098  
#>  17-000073:    1   Median :2017-06-17 18:46:47.00                     
#>  17-000092:    1   Mean   :2017-06-23 19:57:49.73                     
#>  17-000098:    1   3rd Qu.:2017-09-18 18:32:06.75                     
#>  17-000111:    1   Max.   :2017-12-31 23:52:35.00                     
#>  (Other)  :51914                                                      
#>     MDC        citationIssued personSearch vehicleSearch
#>  MDC  :43699   NO  :15899     NO  :38462   NO  :40579   
#>  other: 8221   YES : 3211     YES : 5237   YES : 3120   
#>                NA's:32810     NA's: 8221   NA's: 8221   
#>                                                         
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#>             preRace                race           gender           lat       
#>  Unknown        :28337   Black       :15220   Female :10015   Min.   :44.89  
#>  Black          : 6805   White       :11703   Male   :27131   1st Qu.:44.95  
#>  White          : 6004   Unknown     : 9219   Unknown: 6492   Median :44.98  
#>  Native American:  908   East African: 2188   NA's   : 8282   Mean   :44.97  
#>  Latino         :  528   Latino      : 1858                   3rd Qu.:45.00  
#>  (Other)        : 1117   (Other)     : 3511                   Max.   :45.05  
#>  NA's           : 8221   NA's        : 8221                                  
#>       long        policePrecinct         neighborhood  
#>  Min.   :-93.33   Min.   :1.000   Downtown West: 4409  
#>  1st Qu.:-93.29   1st Qu.:2.000   Whittier     : 3328  
#>  Median :-93.28   Median :3.000   Near - North : 2256  
#>  Mean   :-93.27   Mean   :3.257   Lyndale      : 2154  
#>  3rd Qu.:-93.25   3rd Qu.:4.000   Jordan       : 2075  
#>  Max.   :-93.20   Max.   :5.000   Hawthorne    : 2031  
#>                                   (Other)      :35667