Lens · Stories
Long-form on the BPO record.
The five Researcher-tier lenses are powerful but lonely — they show you the shape of the data, not what it means. Stories are the BPO desk's reading of specific moments in the timeline, with the underlying queries linked so you can verify or argue back.
Draft · 9-min read
Election cycles and political violence
Every Bangladeshi general election since 1991 left a measurable spike in the incident record. The shape of that spike tells you a lot about the politics of the moment.
Draft · 11-min read
Cox's Bazar after the Rohingya influx
In late 2017, ~750,000 Rohingya crossed into Cox's Bazar. The district's incident profile has not been the same since — and not for the reasons the headlines suggest.
Draft · 7-min read
Police arrests under the DSA, 2018–2024
The Digital Security Act, passed in October 2018, fundamentally reshaped how police interactions appear in the BPO record. This is what the data shows.
For editorial review
These three pieces ship in draft form. Numbers and structure are data-driven; the framing and voice are placeholder and need an editorial pass from the BPO research desk before any external release. Each page carries a DRAFT banner.