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    Stop Incidents 2010 to 2017

    Metadata Updated: March 28, 2025

    Whenever a forcible stop or a frisk is conducted, MPD officers are required to submit an incident report which includes specific factors which supported the determination that reasonable suspicion was present to use the minimum amount of force necessary to stop or frisk a person. Although the primary purpose of the stop and frisk incident report is to collect information on forcible stops or frisks, officers frequently use this report to document non-forcible stops. Thus, the incident type “stop and frisk” may include non-forcible stops, forcible stops, and frisks. Each row of information in the attached dataset represents an individual associated with a stop and frisk incident. Not all individuals of an incident may have been stopped or frisked. For example, two individuals may have been associated with a stop or frisk incident but only one person may have been stopped. The other person may include a witness. Moreover, two individuals may have been stopped where only one person is frisked. A “stop” is a temporary detention of a person for the purpose of determining whether probable cause exists to arrest a person. A “frisk” is a limited protective search on a person to determine the presence of concealed weapons and/or dangerous instruments. https://mpdc.dc.gov/node/1310236

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date March 28, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 28, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DC opendata json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 28, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 28, 2025
    Publisher Metropolitan Police Department
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2024-05-24T17:49:15.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2019-09-18T00:00:00.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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    Harvest Source Title DC opendata json
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::stop-incidents-2010-to-2017
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Source Hash 120c394f824cdaead4b1df71bf3f5d0a55215a6ec12fce74e248b6c859ec575d
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