searchlight: Audited Analysis of Police Stop and Search Records

Acquire and audit public police stop and search archives for England and Wales, retaining provenance and explicit coverage information. Designed for exposure-based ethnic disparity analysis with separately reported sampling and assumption uncertainty. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Version:	0.1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	CARBayes (≥ 6.1.1), cli, commonmark, digest, dplyr (≥ 1.1.1), httr2, jsonlite, MASS, readr, rlang, sf, spdep, splines, suncalc, posterior, ggplot2, tidyr, tibble, withr, xml2
Suggests:	testthat (≥ 3.0.0), httptest2, knitr, rmarkdown, lme4, lintr, spelling, vdiffr, zip
Published:	2026-09-30
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.searchlight (may not be active yet)
Author:	Mustapha Wasseja [aut, cre], Sarah Hamed [aut], Souci Frissa [aut], Black Thrive Global [cph, fnd]
Maintainer:	Mustapha Wasseja <mustapha.wasseja.mohammed at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/BlackThrive/searchlight/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/BlackThrive/searchlight, https://blackthrive.github.io/searchlight/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-GB
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	searchlight results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	searchlight.html , searchlight.pdf
Vignettes:	From archive to audited dataset (source) Estimating disparity with explicit assumptions (source) Outcome tests and veil of darkness (source) Small-area disparity with spatial smoothing: simulation evidence (source)

Downloads:

Package source:	searchlight_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: searchlight_0.1.0.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): searchlight_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): searchlight_0.1.0.tgz

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