The shell script was used to clean the data and upload it to BigQuery. You can access the data yourself there:
https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/nypd-data:nypd.stop_and_frisk
Or if you simply want a giant zip of CSV files, go here (note: You'll have to do the work of reconciling the columns in order to get all the files into one database):
http://stash.compciv.org.s3.amazonaws.com/nypd-stop-and-frisk/2003-2013.zip
The R script in this gist produces the image below: