stops: New Orleans Traffic Stops Data
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stops

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New Orleans Traffic Stops Data

Description

This data is from the Stanford Open Policing Project, which aims to improve police accountability and transparency by providing data on traffic stops across the United States. The New Orleans dataset includes detailed information about traffic stops conducted by the New Orleans Police Department.

Usage

stops

Format

A tibble with about 400,000 observations and 7 variables:

date: date variable indicating the date of the stop
time: time variable indicating the time of the stop
zone: character variable indicating the zone of the officer conducting the stop
race: character variable indicating the race of the driver
sex: character variable indicating the sex of the driver
age: integer variable indicating the age of the driver
arrested: 0/1 variable indicating whether an arrest was made

Details

The dataset includes information about the date, time, and location of each stop, as well as demographic details about the driver and the outcomes of the stop. The data covers traffic stops from July 1, 2011 to July 18, 2018. Any records with missing values were deleted. This might cause some issues because stops which resulted in an arrest were 4 times more likely to feature a missing value for 'age'.