Occupy Data Introduces the Stop and Frisk Data API

Below are the result of several hackathons and many people’s hard work taking the NYPD’s proprietary stop and frisk databases for 2003-2011 and turning them into a single database, that now anyone can run queries on.

The data API still in beta, but check it out at here. If you want to see a quick sample response, check out this request response, which shows age, race, crime suspected, and whether the individual stopped was frisked.

The full API documentation (again, a work in progress) is available on github.

Key Benefits:

Ability to run queries on the full database of over 4 million records, which includes over 100 columns with attribute information for each record of a person stopped by the NYPD.

Geospatially enabled.

Records with geospatial information have geo coordinates in the loc column. You can pretty easily make a map pulling the data straight from the API, see an example here

HTML or JSON Responses

JSON

HTML

Append &html to your api query to see the result formatted in a nice HTML table rather than the default JSON format.