# Who gets stopped and searched

> Six months of Metropolitan Police stop and search, by how people described themselves.

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

## Methodology

Metropolitan Police stop-and-search records over the last six published months, grouped by self-defined ethnicity. The self-defined field is recorded as 'Group - Detail'; the group is used because the detail splits into dozens of slivers too small to read. Shares are of all searches in the period, not of population — the comparison against London's demography is left to the reader rather than asserted here.

## Visualisations

- [Self-defined ethnicity](https://londongraph.com/g/who-gets-stopped): Compare the published self-defined ethnicity-group shares by month.
- [Age × gender](https://londongraph.com/g/who-gets-stopped?view=age-gender): Count recorded age-band and gender combinations across the six-month detail window. Caveat: Cells below ten searches are suppressed; these administrative fields may be missing or recorded inconsistently.
- [Ethnicity × outcome](https://londongraph.com/g/who-gets-stopped?view=ethnicity-outcome): Compare broad recorded outcomes within self-defined ethnicity groups. Caveat: This accountability view is descriptive, uses broad outcomes, suppresses cells below ten, and does not infer individual behaviour.
- [Legislation](https://londongraph.com/g/who-gets-stopped?view=legislation): Follow the legal power recorded for searches over the detailed six-month window.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.