Weekly Viz 2021-06-21
Stop & Search Rates by Ethnicity in the UK
About Makeover Monday
MakeoverMonday is a social data project: “Each week we post a link to a chart, and its data, and then you rework the chart. Maybe you retell the story more effectively, or find a new story in the data. We’re curious to see the different approaches you all take. Whether it’s a simple bar chart or an elaborate infographic, we encourage everyone of all skills to partake. Together we can have broader conversations about and with data.”
Starting from Jan 08, 2018, I decided to put aside one hour on Monday weekly to create some visualization and find some insights from the data.
The datasets are published each week at: MakeoverMonday Datasets.
Makeover Monday 20210621
This week’s dataset is the Stop and Search rate in England and Wales by ethnicity from 2009 to 2020. As the original site stated, “Figures on stop and search reported to the Home Office are used to create greater transparency in the use of stop and search in England and Wales. They enhance accountability by enabling the public to monitor police forces at a national and local level.”. It also provides great summary on the data insights and talks about many caveats.
My Visualization
To compare the trend across different ethnicities, I made a simple line chart by ethnicity, highlighting the ‘All’ aggregated rate.
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Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.
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Insights
- Overall we see a decrease in stop and search rate across all ethnicities from 2009 to 2018, but bounced back since 2018;
- Comparing the stop and search rate by ethnicities, black ethnicity always have the highest rate, while white ethnicity is the only one below average – but of course, this could be a result from many many different factors, so no conclusion could be drawn here without more care data analysis.
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