Eric Benson + NYPD Stop and Frisk Escalation Map and Video
Project Overview:
Collaboration with the LA Society. This reconstruction maps a fast, fragmented stop-and-frisk sequence in the Bronx neighborhood in New York City. Stop-and-frisk has long been controversial as it has been used to unfairly target Black and Latino men. This visualization highlights how quickly these stop-and-frisks can escalate into violent arrests. Because the matter is ongoing, all exhibits are de-identified and selectively redacted/blurred. The analysis surfaces: (1) timing gaps and rapid escalation, (2) tunnel-vision policingβother individuals present were not assessed, (3) inconsistencies between officer narratives and dispatch audio, and (4) the imprecision of acoustic gunshot-detection pinpoints (ShotSpotter).
Role: Researcher/analyst, timeline build, data cleaning, geocoding & mapping, transcript alignment, and visual synthesis in collaboration with the video-mitigation team and counsel.
Data/Approach: incident logs, dispatch audio, officer narratives, field notes β timeline reconstruction, mapped paths/overlays, discrepancy analysis.
Stack: Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Illustrator, Google Earth, Google Maps,