streetlamp: Panel Econometrics for the Effect of Police Stop and Search on Recorded Crime

Builds an area-by-month panel of recorded crime in England and Wales from the data.police.uk bulk archive <https://data.police.uk/data/archive/>, attaches stop and search intensity as a treatment variable, and provides a panel-econometrics toolkit for evaluating policing interventions: two-way fixed effects, event studies, difference-in-differences with staggered adoption, synthetic control, spatial spillover and displacement models, and stop-crime elasticities by offence type. Area boundaries are read from the Office for National Statistics Open Geography Portal <https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/>, Census 2021 population from the 'Nomis' API <https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/api/v01/help>, and notes of re-supplied and missing force data from the data.police.uk change log <https://data.police.uk/changelog/>. Every panel carries a contract recording provenance, coverage, geography vintage and treatment definition; every estimator names its identifying assumption and ships with a placebo or pre-trend diagnostic.

Version:	0.2.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	cli, did, digest, dplyr, fixest, generics, ggplot2 (≥ 3.5.0), grDevices, grid, httr2, rlang (≥ 1.1.0), sf, spdep, stats, tibble, tidyr, tools, utils, withr
Suggests:	didimputation, httptest2, knitr, rmarkdown, spelling, strucchange, Synth, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), vdiffr
Published:	2026-11-06
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.streetlamp (may not be active yet)
Author:	Mustapha Wasseja [aut, cre], Souci Frissa [aut], Sarah Hamed [aut], Black Thrive Global [cph, fnd]
Maintainer:	Mustapha Wasseja <muswaseja at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/BlackThrive/streetlamp/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/BlackThrive/streetlamp, https://blackthrive.github.io/streetlamp/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-GB
Citation:	streetlamp citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	streetlamp results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	streetlamp.html , streetlamp.pdf
Vignettes:	From archive to audited crime panel (source) Displacement and spillovers (source) Stop-crime slopes and cross-sectional dependence (source, R code) Evaluating a stop and search surge (source) Research validation: estimands, heterogeneity and empirical credibility (source, R code) Simulation evidence: what each estimator recovers and when it fails (source)

Downloads:

Package source:	streetlamp_0.2.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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