Nine Days Naptown ESRI shapefile references and GeoDa “.gda” workfile

Title of reference article:<i>Nine Days of Naptown Arrests: How and Why Spatial Data Should Discomfort Us</i>Author J. Kevin ByrneDate authored: August 23, 2020Abstract: During nine successive days in 2019 Indianapolis (IN) police made arrests across six districts. <i>Exploratory spatial data analysis</i> (ESDA) revealed how variables of arrests, race, aggressive use of force (UOF), injuries, and their location interact with each other. <i>Scatterplots</i> with R-squared values &gt; 0.6 suggested aggressive UOF contributed to injuries of arrested residents across all races, Caucasian officers may have excessively injured arrested residents, and aggressive UOF correlated with arrests of African-Americans. Findings for <i>parallel-coordinate-plots</i> dove deeper in terms of spatial implications and ethical considerations (e.g., by visually demonstrating presence of a cluster of observed residents’ arrests as coinciding with African-American census geodemographics). This “small-sample” can surprise the reader. My conclusion proposed two aims: 1) solidify hypotheses (for further ESDA) that may induce ethical discomfort (a good thing) pertaining to the subject of <i>structural racism,</i> and 2) use findings to usher civic policymakers down more strident paths to sociocultural change.<br>Indianapolis (IN) police districts and zones shapefiles that were made public by ESRI were used by way of my ESDA.<br> Path to shapefiles’ source:http://data.indy.gov/datasets/indianapolis-police-zonesN.B.: Safari web-browser not recommended. <br>Shapefile metadata are here: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=b59421675f2a40fda9b00beeb875996f<br>Using GeoDa I did a spatial join that permitted my ESDA to analyze variables with scatterplots, PCPs, and datamaps. My final GeoDa file – titled <i>NapWorksProj.gda</i> – is herewith.<br>Also herewith are my GeoDa's shapefiles – created natively – titled as follows:· NapWorks.cpg· NapWorks.dbf· NapWorks.prj· NapWorks.shp· NapWorks.shx