Description & Citation--Study No. 21660

• Bibliographic Description
• Scope of Study
• Methodology
• Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

21660

New York Police Department (NYPD) Stop, Question, and Frisk Database, 2006

NYPD SQF Database

New York City Police Department

New York City Police Department

New York City Police Department. New York Police Department (NYPD) Stop, Question, and Frisk Database, 2006. ICPSR21660-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-06-18. doi:10.3886/ICPSR21660.v1

Scope of Study

These data were originally collected by New York Police Department officers and record information gathered as a result of stop question and frisk (SQF) encounters during 2006. These data were used in a study carried out, under contract to the New York City Police Foundation, by the Rand Corporation's Center on Quality Policing. The release of the study, "Analysis of Racial Disparities in the New York Police Department's Stop, Question, and Frisk Practices" (Rand Document TR-534-NYCPF, 2007) generated interest in making the data available for secondary analysis. This data collection contains information on the officer's reasons for initiating a stop, whether the stop led to a summons or arrest, demographic information for the person stopped, and the suspected criminal behavior.

police, police citizen interactions, search and seizure

precinct

New York City, New York (state), United States

• 2006

• 2007-03

police-citizen encounter

All street encounters between New York Police Department officers and citizens within New York City resulting in completion of NYPD form UF250 (Unified Form 250) during 2006.

administrative records data

At the request of the NYPD, several variables were removed from the original data file. These variables reflected notes made by NYPD officers during stop-question-frisk encounters, and thus contained potentially identifying information about officers and suspects.

Methodology

inap.

none

record abstracts

Not applicable.

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Performed consistency checks.
• Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Access and Availability

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

2008-06-09

This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited.