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Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board Annual Report 2022 Appendices
APPENDIX A – REPORT BODY DESCRIPTIVE TABLES 1
A.1 Stops by Identity Group and Reason for Stop 1
A.2 Stops by Identity Group and Traffic Violation Type 3
A.3 Stops by Identity Group and Reason for Stop - Reasonable Suspicion
Subcategories 4
A.4 Stops by Identity Group and Calls for Service 8
A.5 Stops by Identity Group and Calls for Service without Traffic Violations 10
A.6 Stops by Identity Group and Average Actions Taken During Stop 12
A.7 Stops by Identity Group and Actions Taken During Stop 14
A.8 All Actions Taken During Stop by Race/Ethnicity 16
A.9 All Actions Taken During Stop by Gender 19
A.10 All Actions Taken During Stop by Age Group 21
A.11 All Actions Taken During Stop by LGBT, Limited English Fluency,
or Disability Group 23
A.12 Stops by Identity Group and Stop Result for Handcuffed Individuals 25
A.13 Stops by Identity Group and Stop Result 27
A.14 Consent Inquiries and Search Rates 29
A.15 Consent Search Rates 30
A.16 Consent Search Discovery Rates 31
A.17 Reason for Stop for Consent Only Searches 32
A.18 Reason for Stop for Consent Only Search by Search Type 33
A.19 Known Supervision Searches 34
A.20 Supervision Search Discovery Rates 35
A.21 Reason for Stop by Search Type 36
A.22 Search Rates by Gender 39
A.23 Search Discovery Rates by Gender 39
A.24 Use of Force Rates by Gender 40
A.25 Reason for Stop by Gender 41
A.26 Reason for Stop Reasonable Suspicion Subfields by Gender 41
A.27 Search Rates by Disability 42
A.28 Search Discovery Rates by Disability 42
A.29 Use of Force Rates by Disability 43
A.30 Reason for Stop subfield by Disability 43
A.31 Reason for Stop Reasonable Suspicion subfields by Disability 44
APPENDIX B – TRAFFIC VIOLATION CODE ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY 45
B.1 Traffic Violation Vehicle Code Section Tables 45
B.1.1 Vehicle Code Section Groupings 45
B.1.2 Top Five Vehicle Code Sections Reported for
Moving Violations (All Agencies) 47
B.1.3 Top Five Vehicle Code Sections Reported for
Non-Moving/Equipment Violations (All Agencies) 48
APPENDIX C – DISPARITY TEST METHODS 51
C.1 Residential Population Comparison Analysis Methodology 51
C.1.1 Census Table B03002 52
C.2 Analysis Methodology 53
C.3 Veil of Darkness (VOD) Analysis Methodology 55
C.4 Use of Force Analysis Methodology 57
APPENDIX D – DISPARITY TEST TABLES 59
D.1 Residential Population Comparison Tables 59
D.1.1 Residential Population Comparison to All Stops 59
D.1.2 Residential Population Comparison to Calls for Service Stops 67
D.1.3 Residential Population Comparison to Officer-Initiated Stops 76
D.2 Discovery Rate Analysis Tables 85
D.2.1 Search Rates 85
D.2.2 Discovery Rates during Stops with Discretionary Searches 88
D.2.3 Discovery Rates during Stops with Administrative Searches 91
D.3 Veil of Darkness Analysis Table 94
D.4 Use of Force Analysis Table 97
APPENDIX E – WAVE 3 AND 4 BIAS-FREE POLICING POLICIES 100
101
E.1 Davis Police Department
111
E.2 Alameda County Sheriff’s Office
114
E.3 Kern County Sheriff’s Office
122
E.4 Los Angeles World Airport Police
125
E.5 Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
130
E.6 Stockton Police Department
132
E.7 Anaheim Police Department
136
E.8 Berkeley Police Department
139
E.9 Cotati Police Department
143
E.10 Sonoma State University Police Department
147
E.11 Culver City Police Department
151
E.12 Fresno County Sheriff’s Office
155
E.13 Petaluma Police Department
159
E.14 Riverside Police Department
162
E.15 Rohnert Park Police Department
165
E.16 Santa Ana Police Department
170
E.17 Santa Rosa Police Department
173
E.18 San Francisco Sheriff’s Department
177
E.19 Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office
181
E.20 Sonoma County Junior College District Police Department
186
E.21 Ventura County Sheriff’s Office
189
E.22 Windsor Police Department
APPENDIX F – WAVES 1 AND 2 REVISED BIAS-FREE POLICING POLICIES 193
F.1 California Highway Patrol 194
F.2 Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office 207
F.3 Orange County Sheriff’s Department 212
F.4 Fresno Police Department 217
APPENDIX G – AUGUST 24, 2021 LETTER FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL
LIBERTIES UNION TO THE RIPA BOARD 220
APPENDIX H – BREAKDOWN OF CIVILIAN COMPLAINTS 228
H.1 Racial and Identity Profiling Civilian Complaints for RIPA Reporting
Agencies Table 228
APPENDIX I – WAVES 3 AND 4 CIVILIAN COMPLAINTS FORMS 232
I.1 Alameda County Sheriff’s Office 233
I.2 Anaheim Police Department 236
I.3 Fresno County Sheriff’s Office 240
I.4 Kern County Sheriff’s Office 244
I.5 Los Angeles World Airport Police 248
I.6 Riverside Police Department 252
I.7 San Francisco Sheriff’s Office 255
I.8 Santa Ana Police Department 259
I.9 Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office 264
I.10 Stockton Police Department 267
I.11 Ventura County Sheriff’s Office 270
I.12 Berkeley Police Department 275
I.13 Culver City Police Department 278
I.14 Davis Police Department 281
I.15 Petaluma Police Department 287
I.16 Rohnert Park Police Department 290
I.17 Santa Rosa Police Department 293
I.18 Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office 296
I.19 Sonoma State University Police Department 299
I.20 Sonoma County Junior College District Police Department 304
I.21 Cotati Police Department 315
APPENDIX J – POST QUALITY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM EVALUATION
FORM (FORM NO. 2-341) 317
APPENDIX K – RIPA BOARD OCTOBER 22, 2021 LETTER TO POST
REGARDING AB 846 REGULATIONS AND POST’S NOVEMBER 16, 2021
LETTER IN RESPONSE 325
APPENDIX A – REPORT BODY DESCRIPTIVE TABLES
A.1 Stops by Identity Group and Reason for Stop
Reasonable
Identity Group Traffic Violation Other Reasons Total
Suspicion
Asian 141,640 (93.3%) 8,601 (5.7%) 1,572 (1.0%) 151,813 (100.0%)
Black 377,318 (77.9%) 90,829 (18.8%) 16,217 (3.3%) 484,364 (100.0%)
Hispanic 1,040,224 (87.6%) 118,608 (10.0%) 28,896 (2.4%) 1,187,728 (100.0%)
Race/Ethnicity Middle Eastern/South Asian 130,470 (95.4%) 5,550 (4.1%) 786 (0.6%) 136,806 (100.0%)
Multiracial 21,681 (84.1%) 3,287 (12.8%) 809 (3.1%) 25,777 (100.0%)
Native American 5,128 (84.0%) 752 (12.3%) 225 (3.7%) 6,105 (100.0%)
Pacific Islander 13,195 (86.3%) 1,718 (11.2%) 379 (2.5%) 15,292 (100.0%)
White 798,410 (85.9%) 108,544 (11.7%) 22,822 (2.5%) 929,776 (100.0%)
(Cisgender) Female 244,257 (73.1%) 76,576 (22.9%) 13,223 (4.0%) 334,056 (100.0%)
Gender Nonconforming 769 (67.3%) 322 (28.2%) 52 (4.5%) 1,143 (100.0%)
Gender
(Cisgender) Male 597,599 (66.3%) 250,297 (27.8%) 53,254 (5.9%) 901,150 (100.0%)
Transgender Man/Boy 1,410 (44.4%) 1,542 (48.6%) 223 (7.0%) 3,175 (100.0%)
Transgender Woman/Girl 608 (34.8%) 1,043 (59.7%) 96 (5.5%) 1,747 (100.0%)
1-9 858 (62.1%) 352 (25.5%) 171 (12.4%) 1,381 (100.0%)
10-14 1,054 (23.6%) 2,743 (61.3%) 675 (15.1%) 4,472 (100.0%)
15-17 21,113 (65.4%) 8,869 (27.5%) 2,322 (7.2%) 32,304 (100.0%)
Age Group
18-24 453,588 (89.2%) 45,208 (8.9%) 9,866 (1.9%) 508,662 (100.0%)
25-34 825,941 (85.4%) 114,198 (11.8%) 26,684 (2.8%) 966,823 (100.0%)
35-44 541,441 (84.9%) 79,427 (12.5%) 16,894 (2.6%) 637,762 (100.0%)
45-54 369,442 (85.9%) 50,846 (11.8%) 9,606 (2.2%) 429,894 (100.0%)
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Reasonable
Identity Group Traffic Violation Other Reasons Total
Suspicion
55-64 221,769 (87.2%) 28,097 (11.1%) 4,354 (1.7%) 254,220 (100.0%)
65+ 92,860 (90.9%) 8,145 (8.0%) 1,134 (1.1%) 102,139 (100.0%)
LGBT LGBT 8,062 (47.6%) 7,781 (46.0%) 1,089 (6.4%) 16,932 (100.0%)
Non-LGBT 836,581 (68.3%) 321,999 (26.3%) 65,760 (5.4%) 1,224,340 (100.0%)
Limited English Fluency English Fluent 2,430,762 (86.1%) 321,828 (11.4%) 69,613 (2.5%) 2,822,203 (100.0%)
Limited/No English Fluency 97,304 (84.3%) 16,061 (13.9%) 2,094 (1.8%) 115,459 (100.0%)
Disability Disability 5,450 (15.3%) 26,800 (75.1%) 3,458 (9.7%) 35,708 (100.0%)
No Disability 2,522,616 (86.9%) 311,089 (10.7%) 68,247 (2.4%) 2,901,952 (100.0%)
Overall 2,528,066 (86.1%) 337,889 (11.5%) 71,707 (2.4%) 2,937,662 (100.0%)
Note. Corrections to the total column counts were applied on 11/7/2023.
Note. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) was excluded from the analysis of perceived gender and LGBT due to a technical error in CHP’s data.
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A.2 Stops by Identity Group and Traffic Violation Type
Identity Group Equipment Moving Non-moving Total
Asian 12,081 (8.5%) 113,440 (80.1%) 16,119 (11.4%) 141,640 (100.0%)
Black 60,613 (16.1%) 259,030 (68.7%) 57,672 (15.3%) 377,315 (100.0%)
Hispanic 155,169 (14.9%) 746,577 (71.8%) 138,466 (13.3%) 1,040,212 (100.0%)
Race/Ethnicity Middle Eastern/South Asian 14,685 (11.3%) 100,494 (77.0%) 15,291 (11.7%) 130,470 (100.0%)
Multiracial 2,980 (13.7%) 15,777 (72.8%) 2,924 (13.5%) 21,681 (100.0%)
Native American 715 (13.9%) 3,702 (72.2%) 711 (13.9%) 5,128 (100.0%)
Pacific Islander 1,421 (10.8%) 10,037 (76.1%) 1,737 (13.2%) 13,195 (100.0%)
White 83,488 (10.5%) 601,440 (75.3%) 113,477 (14.2%) 798,405 (100.0%)
(Cisgender) Female 38,870 (15.9%) 177,813 (72.8%) 27,567 (11.3%) 244,250 (100.0%)
Gender Nonconforming 96 (12.5%) 642 (83.5%) 31 (4.0%) 769 (100.0%)
Gender
(Cisgender) Male 130,227 (21.8%) 391,306 (65.5%) 76,053 (12.7%) 597,586 (100.0%)
Transgender Man/Boy 194 (13.8%) 1,028 (72.9%) 188 (13.3%) 1,410 (100.0%)
Transgender Woman/Girl 131 (21.5%) 399 (65.6%) 78 (12.8%) 608 (100.0%)
1-9 157 (18.3%) 596 (69.5%) 105 (12.2%) 858 (100.0%)
10-14 225 (21.3%) 634 (60.2%) 195 (18.5%) 1,054 (100.0%)
15-17 2,472 (11.7%) 16,514 (78.2%) 2,126 (10.1%) 21,112 (100.0%)
18-24 50,421 (11.1%) 358,299 (79.0%) 44,864 (9.9%) 453,584 (100.0%)
Age Group
25-34 110,879 (13.4%) 601,406 (72.8%) 113,648 (13.8%) 825,933 (100.0%)
35-44 75,522 (13.9%) 382,311 (70.6%) 83,603 (15.4%) 541,436 (100.0%)
45-54 53,350 (14.4%) 258,876 (70.1%) 57,216 (15.5%) 369,442 (100.0%)
55-64 29,798 (13.4%) 159,094 (71.7%) 32,876 (14.8%) 221,768 (100.0%)
65+ 8,328 (9.0%) 72,767 (78.4%) 11,764 (12.7%) 92,859 (100.0%)
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Identity Group Equipment Moving Non-moving Total
LGBT LGBT 1,741 (21.6%) 5,324 (66.0%) 997 (12.4%) 8,062 (100.0%)
Non-LGBT 167,777 (20.1%) 565,864 (67.6%) 102,920 (12.3%) 836,561 (100.0%)
Limited English English Fluent 314,057 (12.9%) 1,782,632 (73.3%) 334,053 (13.7%) 2,430,742 (100.0%)
Fluency
Limited/No English Fluency 17,095 (17.6%) 67,865 (69.7%) 12,344 (12.7%) 97,304 (100.0%)
Disability Disability 743 (13.6%) 3,689 (67.7%) 1,018 (18.7%) 5,450 (100.0%)
No Disability 330,409 (13.1%) 1,846,808 (73.2%) 345,379 (13.7%) 2,522,596 (100.0%)
Overall 331,152 (13.1%) 1,850,497 (73.2%) 346,397 (13.7%) 2,528,046 (100.0%)
Note. Corrections to the total column counts were applied on 11/7/2023.
Note. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) was excluded from the analysis of perceived gender and LGBT due to a technical error in CHP’s data.
A.3 Stops by Identity Group and Reason for Stop - Reasonable Suspicion Subcategories
Suspected Actions
Matched Carrying Actions
Officer Witness Drug of Acting Indicative
Identity Group Suspect Suspicious Indicative Other
Witness Identification Transaction as of Violent
Description Object of Casing
Lookout Crime
3,023 2,712 2,371
Asian 1,652 100 (1.2%) 75 (0.9%) 55 (0.6%) 19 (0.2%) 51 (0.6%)
(35.2%) (31.6%) (27.6%)
(19.2%)
32,589 32,397 17,485 1,674 558 431 22,216
Black 890 (1.0%) 833 (0.9%)
(35.9%) (35.7%) (19.3%) (1.8%) (0.6%) (0.5%) (24.5%)
39,140 44,671 20,197 1,763 958 660 28,173
Hispanic 1,148 747 (0.6%)
(33.0%) (37.7%) (17.0%) (1.5%) (0.8%) (0.6%) (23.8%)
(1.0%)
Race/Ethnicity Middle
1,949 1,655 1,494
Eastern/South 1,191 44 (0.8%) 24 (0.4%) 47 (0.8%) 20 (0.4%) 35 (0.6%)
(35.1%) (29.8%) (26.9%)
Asian (21.5%)
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Suspected Actions
Matched Carrying Actions
Officer Witness Drug of Acting Indicative
Identity Group Suspect Suspicious Indicative Other
Witness Identification Transaction as of Violent
Description Object of Casing
Lookout Crime
1,403 1,056 813
Multiracial 592 (18.0%) 53 (1.6%) 31 (0.9%) 43 (1.3%) 18 (0.5%) 28 (0.9%)
(42.7%) (32.2%) (24.8%)
Native 279 260 186
105 (14.0%) 4 (0.5%) 8 (1.1%) 6 (0.8%) 0 (0.0%) 3 (0.4%)
American (37.2%) (34.7%) (24.8%)
633 540 420
Pacific Islander 307 (17.9%) 15 (0.9%) 12 (0.7%) 11 (0.6%) 7 (0.4%) 17 (1.0%)
(36.9%) (31.5%) (24.5%)
40,279 40,351 14,831 1003 981 294 24,079
White 700 (0.6%) 523 (0.5%)
(37.1%) (37.2%) (13.7%) (0.9%) (0.9%) (0.3%) (22.2%)
(Cisgender) 25,314 26,567 13,195 400 279 20,456
511 (0.7%) 568 (0.7%) 404 (0.5%)
Female (33.1%) (34.7%) (17.2%) (0.5%) (0.4%) (26.7%)
Gender 156 99 75
60 (18.6%) 11 (3.4%) 3 (0.9%) 7 (2.2%) 12 (3.7%) 5 (1.6%)
Gender Nonconforming (48.4%) (30.7%) (23.3%)
(Cisgender) 90,935 92,727 41,262 3,991 2,177 1,137 1,606 56,319
2,231
Male (36.4%) (37.1%) (16.5%) (1.6%) (0.9%) (0.5%) (0.6%) (22.5%)
(0.9%)
Transgender 620 496 324
339 (22.0%) 25 (1.6%) 9 (0.6%) 5 (0.3%) 6 (0.4%) 13 (0.8%)
Man/Boy (40.2%) (32.2%) (21.0%)
Transgender 430 320 251
253 (24.3%) 17 (1.6%) 8 (0.8%) 1 (0.1%) 5 (0.5%) 10 (1.0%)
Woman/Girl (41.2%) (30.7%) (24.1%)
60 201
1-9 84 (23.9%) 33 (9.4%) 3 (0.9%) 2 (0.6%) 1 (0.3%) 1 (0.3%) 2 (0.6%)
(17.1%) (57.3%)
1,017 406 1,053
10-14 529 (19.3%) 53 (1.9%) 9 (0.3%) 13 (0.5%) 24 (0.9%) 32 (1.2%)
(37.2%) (14.9%) (38.5%)
3,196 2,255 2,962
15-17 1,476 (16.7%) 228 (2.6%) 70 (0.8%) 49 (0.6%) 96 (1.1%) 96 (1.1%)
(36.1%) (25.5%) (33.4%)
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Suspected Actions
Matched Carrying Actions
Officer Witness Drug of Acting Indicative
Identity Group Suspect Suspicious Indicative Other
Witness Identification Transaction as of Violent
Description Object of Casing
Lookout Crime
Age Group 14,151 17,011 397 322 12,264
18-24 6,736 845 (1.9%) 492 (1.1%) 436 (1.0%)
(31.3%) (37.6%) (0.9%) (0.7%) (27.1%)
(14.9%)
41,744 40,168 20,193 1,755 1,029 552 27,115
25-34 1,074 796 (0.7%)
(36.6%) (35.2%) (17.7%) (1.5%) (0.9%) (0.5%) (23.8%)
(0.9%)
30,016 27,860 14,071 1,022 647 261 17,868
35-44 587 (0.7%) 487 (0.6%)
(37.8%) (35.1%) (17.7%) (1.3%) (0.8%) (0.3%) (22.5%)
17,633 20,319 374 129 10,772
45-54 7,987 526 (1.0%) 403 (0.8%) 252 (0.5%)
(34.7%) (40.0%) (0.7%) (0.3%) (21.2%)
(15.7%)
8,787 12,410 123 5,653
55-64 4,090 182 (0.6%) 210 (0.7%) 57 (0.2%) 116 (0.4%)
(31.3%) (44.2%) (0.4%) (20.1%)
(14.6%)
2,666 3,153 1,861
65+ 1,245 42 (0.5%) 41 (0.5%) 26 (0.3%) 7 (0.1%) 20 (0.2%)
(32.8%) (38.8%) (22.9%)
(15.3%)
LGBT 3,416 2,485 1,495
LGBT 1,342 71 (0.9%) 50 (0.6%) 49 (0.6%) 31 (0.4%) 53 (0.7%)
(43.9%) (32.0%) (19.2%)
(17.3%)
114,039 117,724 53,767 4,484 2,541 1,408 1,985 75,930
Non-LGBT 2,769
(35.4%) (36.6%) (16.7%) (1.4%) (0.8%) (0.4%) (0.6%) (23.6%)
(0.9%)
Limited 114,268 117,335 52,423 4,436 2,576 1,386 2,138 76,403
English Fluent 2,657
English (35.5%) (36.5%) (16.3%) (1.4%) (0.8%) (0.4%) (0.7%) (23.8%)
(0.8%)
Fluency
Limited/No 5,027 6,307 3,349
3,937 220 (1.4%) 231 (1.4%) 83 (0.5%) 63 (0.4%) 99 (0.6%)
English Fluency (31.3%) (39.3%) (20.9%)
(24.5%)
Disability 11,364 3,969 101 10,770
Disability 5,660 317 (1.2%) 53 (0.2%) 15 (0.1%) 167 (0.6%)
(42.5%) (14.8%) (0.4%) (40.3%)
(21.2%)
107,931 119,673 50,700 4,339 2,558 1,434 2,070 68,982
No Disability 2,835
(34.7%) (38.5%) (16.3%) (1.4%) (0.8%) (0.5%) (0.7%) (22.2%)
(0.9%)
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Suspected Actions
Matched Carrying Actions
Officer Witness Drug of Acting Indicative
Identity Group Suspect Suspicious Indicative Other
Witness Identification Transaction as of Violent
Description Object of Casing
Lookout Crime
Note. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) was excluded from the analysis of perceived gender and LGBT due to a
technical error in CHP’s data.
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A.4 Stops by Identity Group and Calls for Service
Identity Group Officer-initiated Stops Call for Service Stops Total
Asian 146,880 (96.8%) 4,933 (3.2%) 151,813 (100.0%)
Black 437,531 (90.3%) 46,833 (9.7%) 484,364 (100.0%)
Hispanic 1,128,563 (95.0%) 59,165 (5.0%) 1,187,728 (100.0%)
Race/Ethnicity
Middle Eastern/South Asian 133,274 (97.4%) 3,532 (2.6%) 136,806 (100.0%)
Multiracial 23,942 (92.9%) 1,835 (7.1%) 25,777 (100.0%)
Native American 5,727 (93.8%) 378 (6.2%) 6,105 (100.0%)
Pacific Islander 14,369 (94.0%) 923 (6.0%) 15,292 (100.0%)
White 875,408 (94.2%) 54,368 (5.8%) 929,776 (100.0%)
(Cisgender) Female 294,588 (88.2%) 39,468 (11.8%) 334,056 (100.0%)
Gender Nonconforming 956 (83.6%) 187 (16.4%) 1,143 (100.0%)
Gender
(Cisgender) Male 782,810 (86.9%) 118,340 (13.1%) 901,150 (100.0%)
Transgender Man/Boy 2,298 (72.4%) 877 (27.6%) 3,175 (100.0%)
Transgender Woman/Girl 1,170 (67.0%) 577 (33.0%) 1,747 (100.0%)
1-9 1,139 (82.5%) 242 (17.5%) 1,381 (100.0%)
10-14 2,585 (57.8%) 1,887 (42.2%) 4,472 (100.0%)
15-17 27,368 (84.7%) 4,936 (15.3%) 32,304 (100.0%)
18-24 486,236 (95.6%) 22,426 (4.4%) 508,662 (100.0%)
Age Group
25-34 906,647 (93.8%) 60,176 (6.2%) 966,823 (100.0%)
35-44 595,842 (93.4%) 41,920 (6.6%) 637,762 (100.0%)
45-54 405,941 (94.4%) 23,953 (5.6%) 429,894 (100.0%)
55-64 242,009 (95.2%) 12,211 (4.8%) 254,220 (100.0%)
65+ 97,925 (95.9%) 4,214 (4.1%) 102,139 (100.0%)
LGBT LGBT 13,378 (79.0%) 3,554 (21.0%) 16,932 (100.0%)
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Identity Group Officer-initiated Stops Call for Service Stops Total
Non-LGBT 1,068,444 (87.3%) 155,896 (12.7%) 1,224,340 (100.0%)
Limited English Fluency English Fluent 2,660,100 (94.3%) 162,103 (5.7%) 2,822,203 (100.0%)
Limited/No English Fluency 105,594 (91.5%) 9,865 (8.5%) 115,459 (100.0%)
Disability Disability 15,165 (42.5%) 20,543 (57.5%) 35,708 (100.0%)
No Disability 2,750,529 (94.8%) 151,423 (5.2%) 2,901,952 (100.0%)
Overall 2,765,694 (94.1%) 171,968 (5.9%) 2,937,662 (100.0%)
Note. Corrections to the total column counts were applied on 11/7/2023.
Note. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) was excluded from the analysis of perceived gender and LGBT due to a technical error in CHP’s data.
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A.5 Stops by Identity Group and Calls for Service without Traffic Violations
Identity Group Officer-initiated Stops Call for Service Stops Total
Asian 5,923 (58.2%) 4,250 (41.8%) 10,173 (100.0%)
Black 63,896 (59.7%) 43,150 (40.3%) 107,046 (100.0%)
Hispanic 97,942 (66.4%) 49,562 (33.6%) 147,504 (100.0%)
Race/Ethnicity
Middle Eastern/South Asian 3,477 (54.9%) 2,859 (45.1%) 6,336 (100.0%)
Multiracial 2,459 (60.0%) 1,637 (40.0%) 4,096 (100.0%)
Native American 680 (69.6%) 297 (30.4%) 977 (100.0%)
Pacific Islander 1,264 (60.3%) 833 (39.7%) 2,097 (100.0%)
White 83,749 (63.8%) 47,617 (36.2%) 131,366 (100.0%)
(Cisgender) Female 53,197 (59.2%) 36,602 (40.8%) 89,799 (100.0%)
Gender Nonconforming 191 (51.1%) 183 (48.9%) 374 (100.0%)
Gender
(Cisgender) Male 193,149 (63.6%) 110,402 (36.4%) 303,551 (100.0%)
Transgender Man/Boy 932 (52.8%) 833 (47.2%) 1,765 (100.0%)
Transgender Woman/Girl 584 (51.3%) 555 (48.7%) 1,139 (100.0%)
1-9 298 (57.0%) 225 (43.0%) 523 (100.0%)
10-14 1,567 (45.8%) 1,851 (54.2%) 3,418 (100.0%)
15-17 6,639 (59.3%) 4,552 (40.7%) 11,191 (100.0%)
18-24 36,835 (66.9%) 18,239 (33.1%) 55,074 (100.0%)
Age Group
25-34 87,928 (62.4%) 52,954 (37.6%) 140,882 (100.0%)
35-44 59,009 (61.3%) 37,312 (38.7%) 96,321 (100.0%)
45-54 39,326 (65.1%) 21,126 (34.9%) 60,452 (100.0%)
55-64 21,955 (67.7%) 10,496 (32.3%) 32,451 (100.0%)
65+ 5,831 (62.8%) 3,448 (37.2%) 9,279 (100.0%)
LGBT LGBT 5,462 (61.6%) 3,408 (38.4%) 8,870 (100.0%)
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Identity Group Officer-initiated Stops Call for Service Stops Total
Non-LGBT 242,591 (62.6%) 145,168 (37.4%) 387,759 (100.0%)
Limited English Fluency English Fluent 249,093 (63.6%) 142,348 (36.4%) 391,441 (100.0%)
Limited/No English Fluency 10,297 (56.7%) 7,858 (43.3%) 18,155 (100.0%)
Disability Disability 10,179 (33.6%) 20,079 (66.4%) 30,258 (100.0%)
No Disability 249,211 (65.7%) 130,125 (34.3%) 379,336 (100.0%)
Overall 259,390 (63.3%) 150,206 (36.7%) 409,596 (100.0%)
Note. Corrections to the total column counts were applied on 11/7/2023.
Note. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) was excluded from the analysis of perceived gender and LGBT due to a technical error in CHP’s data.
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A.6 Stops by Identity Group and Average Actions Taken During Stop
Average Number of Actions Taken
Identity Group Stops with One or More Actions
All Stops
Taken
Asian 0.22 2.52
Black 0.84 2.70
Hispanic 0.54 2.69
Middle Eastern/South Asian 0.17 2.40
Race/Ethnicity
Multiracial 0.62 2.84
Native American 0.57 2.73
Pacific Islander 0.46 2.75
White 0.40 2.63
(Cisgender) Female 0.69 2.39
Gender Nonconforming 0.86 2.62
Gender (Cisgender) Male 1.16 2.72
Transgender Man/Boy 1.55 2.58
Transgender Woman/Girl 1.57 2.54
1-9 0.50 1.92
10-14 1.42 2.19
15-17 1.10 2.55
18-24 0.51 2.67
Age Group
25-34 0.61 2.76
35-44 0.53 2.72
45-54 0.40 2.54
55-64 0.30 2.39
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Average Number of Actions Taken
Identity Group Stops with One or More Actions
All Stops
Taken
65+ 0.19 2.16
Non-LGBT 1.03 2.66
LGBT
LGBT 1.29 2.66
Limited/No English Fluency 0.50 2.67
Limited English Fluency
English Fluent 0.63 2.58
No Disability 0.49 2.68
Disability
Disability 1.85 2.49
O erall 0.51 2.67
Notes. Data submitted by the CHP was excluded from the analysis of perceived gender and LGBT due to a technical error in CHP’s data. The “actions taken
during stop” field of the stop data collection template is a mandatory field that must be completed regardless of whether officers took action during the stop.
Given that officers must input a value for this field, the entry of “no action taken” constitutes a selectable option for this field. Officers indicated “no action
taken” for 80.9% of stop records. To account for the differences in stops that have actions taken in comparison to those in which officer selected “no action
taken,” the analysis of average number of actions taken was calculated two ways: 1) examining all stops, including stops with no actions taken and 2)
examining only stops in which one or more actions were taken (560,926) excluding the stops with a selection of “no action taken.” For the purpose of these
analyses, stops for which officers selected “no action taken” are treated as zeroes when calculating the sum portion of the equations. The average number of
actions taken, for all stops, is calculated by obtaining the sum of the number of actions taken across all stops, then dividing the sum by the total number of
stops. The average number of actions taken for stops with one or more actions taken is calculated by first filtering out all stops where officers selected “no
action taken,” then obtaining the sum of the number of actions taken for the remaining stops, then dividing the sum by the number of stops during which
officers took one or more actions.
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A.7 Stops by Identity Group and Actions Taken During Stop
Ordered Vehicle
Identity Group Searched Handcuffed Detained
Exit
Asian 7,292 (4.8%) 6,391 (4.2%) 7,360 (4.8%) 2,186 (1.4%)
Black 100,333 (20.7%) 74,057 (15.3%) 84,160 (17.4%) 35,296 (7.3%)
Hispanic 148,506 (12.5%) 120,639 (10.2%) 121,224 (10.2%) 53,575 (4.5%)
Middle Eastern/South Asian 4,762 (3.5%) 4,497 (3.3%) 4,946 (3.6%) 1,782 (1.3%)
Race/Ethnicity
Multiracial 3,653 (14.2%) 2,786 (10.8%) 3,146 (12.2%) 1,234 (4.8%)
Native American 775 (12.7%) 699 (11.4%) 588 (9.6%) 225 (3.7%)
Pacific Islander 1,572 (10.3%) 1,361 (8.9%) 1,490 (9.7%) 529 (3.5%)
White 81,556 (8.8%) 69,548 (7.5%) 81,804 (8.8%) 20,403 (2.2%)
(Cisgender) Female 49,342 (14.8%) 43,533 (13.0%) 60,472 (18.1%) 17,148 (5.1%)
Gender Nonconforming 229 (20.0%) 177 (15.5%) 207 (18.1%) 87 (7.6%)
Gender (Cisgender) Male 253,845 (28.2%) 195,162 (21.7%) 229,014 (25.4%) 76,530 (8.5%)
Transgender Man/Boy 1,275 (40.2%) 1,152 (36.3%) 929 (29.3%) 258 (8.1%)
Transgender Woman/Girl 646 (37.0%) 731 (41.9%) 609 (34.9%) 123 (7.0%)
1-9 170 (12.3%) 73 (5.3%) 220 (15.9%) 45 (3.3%)
10-14 1,608 (36.0%) 1,434 (32.1%) 1,693 (37.9%) 211 (4.7%)
15-17 8,881 (27.5%) 7,238 (22.4%) 7,431 (23.0%) 2,772 (8.6%)
18-24 60,946 (12.0%) 46,660 (9.2%) 49,013 (9.6%) 26,717 (5.3%)
Age Group 25-34 138,426 (14.3%) 109,091 (11.3%) 113,626 (11.8%) 47,781 (4.9%)
35-44 78,418 (12.3%) 64,533 (10.1%) 70,292 (11.0%) 22,660 (3.6%)
45-54 38,841 (9.0%) 32,661 (7.6%) 38,882 (9.0%) 10,067 (2.3%)
55-64 17,030 (6.7%) 14,813 (5.8%) 18,656 (7.3%) 4,039 (1.6%)
65+ 4,127 (4.0%) 3,474 (3.4%) 4,905 (4.8%) 938 (0.9%)
LGBT LGBT 5,031 (29.7%) 4,903 (29.0%) 4,887 (28.9%) 1,051 (6.2%)
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Ordered Vehicle
Identity Group Searched Handcuffed Detained
Exit
Non-LGBT 300,307 (24.5%) 235,852 (19.3%) 286,344 (23.4%) 93,095 (7.6%)
English Fluent 331,970 (11.8%) 265,455 (9.4%) 291,645 (10.3%) 109,227 (3.9%)
Limited English Fluency
Limited/No English Fluency 16,480 (14.3%) 14,523 (12.6%) 13,073 (11.3%) 6,003 (5.2%)
Disability 17,158 (48.1%) 18,493 (51.8%) 15,615 (43.7%) 1,007 (2.8%)
Disability
No Disability 331,291 (11.4%) 261,484 (9.0%) 289,102 (10.0%) 114,223 (3.9%)
Overall 348,450 (11.9%) 279,978 (9.5%) 304,718 (10.4%) 115,230 (3.9%)
Notes. Data submitted by the CHP was excluded from the analysis of perceived gender and LGBT due to a technical error in CHP’s data.
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A.8 All Actions Taken During Stop by Race/Ethnicity
Middle
Native Pacific
Action Taken Asian Black Hispanic Eastern/South Multiracial White
American Islander
Asian
Removed from Vehicle by 2,186 35,296 53,575 20,403
1,782 (1.3%) 1,234 (4.8%) 225 (3.7%) 529 (3.5%)
Order (1.4%) (7.3%) (4.5%) (2.2%)
Removed from Vehicle by 2,803 2,997 1,495
162 (0.1%) 109 (0.1%) 77 (0.3%) 7 (0.1%) 41 (0.3%)
Physical Contact (0.6%) (0.3%) (0.2%)
1,883 7,538 29,341 16,855
Field Sobriety Test 1,542 (1.1%) 462 (1.8%) 324 (5.3%) 312 (2.0%)
(1.2%) (1.6%) (2.5%) (1.8%)
4,315 55,254 81,367 53,248
Curbside Detention 2,975 (2.2%) 1,874 (7.3%) 388 (6.4%) 911 (6.0%)
(2.8%) (11.4%) (6.9%) (5.7%)
6,391 74,057 120,639 1361 69,548
Handcuffed 4,497 (3.3%) 2,786 (10.8%) 699 (11.4%)
(4.2%) (15.3%) (10.2%) (8.9%) (7.5%)
3,646 36,134 51,369 36,649
Patrol Car Detention 2,395 (1.8%) 1,588 (6.2%) 274 (4.5%) 727 (4.8%)
(2.4%) (7.5%) (4.3%) (3.9%)
1,163
Canine Search 86 (0.1%) 331 (0.1%) 48 (0.0%) 22 (0.1%) 3 (0.0%) 10 (0.1%) 502 (0.1%)
(0.1%)
4,340 6,448 2,975
Firearm Point 326 (0.2%) 192 (0.1%) 162 (0.6%) 31 (0.5%) 70 (0.5%)
(0.9%) (0.5%) (0.3%)
Firearm Discharge 2 (0.0%) 34 (0.0%) 74 (0.0%) 1 (0.0%) 2 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 33 (0.0%)
Electronic Control Device 14 (0.0%) 187 (0.0%) 248 (0.0%) 5 (0.0%) 10 (0.0%) 5 (0.1%) 2 (0.0%) 192 (0.0%)
Impact Projectile Discharge 6 (0.0%) 86 (0.0%) 125 (0.0%) 3 (0.0%) 3 (0.0%) 2 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 79 (0.0%)
Canine Bite 7 (0.0%) 46 (0.0%) 60 (0.0%) 3 (0.0%) 3 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 54 (0.0%)
Baton 3 (0.0%) 48 (0.0%) 66 (0.0%) 1 (0.0%) 3 (0.0%) 3 (0.0%) 1 (0.0%) 53 (0.0%)
Chemical Spray 5 (0.0%) 86 (0.0%) 88 (0.0%) 5 (0.0%) 1 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 2 (0.0%) 85 (0.0%)
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Middle
Native Pacific
Action Taken Asian Black Hispanic Eastern/South Multiracial White
American Islander
Asian
Other Physical of Vehicle 2,883 3,281 3,436
376 (0.2%) 243 (0.2%) 148 (0.6%) 40 (0.7%) 66 (0.4%)
Contact (0.6%) (0.3%) (0.4%)
3,141 6,768 6,600
Person Photographed 497 (0.3%) 273 (0.2%) 261 (1.0%) 81 (1.3%) 141 (0.9%)
(0.6%) (0.6%) (0.7%)
Asked for Consent to Search 1,217 14,752 27,460 19,137
692 (0.5%) 913 (3.5%) 115 (1.9%) 276 (1.8%)
Person (0.8%) (3.0%) (2.3%) (2.1%)
6,603 92,145 137,420 1,447 75,513
Searched Person 4,402 (3.2%) 3,350 (13.0%) 726 (11.9%)
(4.3%) (19.0%) (11.6%) (9.5%) (8.1%)
Asked for Consent to Search 12,323 19,189 10,970
986 (0.6%) 516 (0.4%) 552 (2.1%) 66 (1.1%) 156 (1.0%)
Property (2.5%) (1.6%) (1.2%)
3,055 49,987 63,175 33,870
Searched Property 1,843 (1.3%) 1,711 (6.6%) 270 (4.4%) 664 (4.3%)
(2.0%) (10.3%) (5.3%) (3.6%)
6,366 9,497 8,162
Property Seized 867 (0.6%) 385 (0.3%) 324 (1.3%) 67 (1.1%) 170 (1.1%)
(1.3%) (0.8%) (0.9%)
7,455 23,643 10,278
Vehicle Impound 973 (0.6%) 841 (0.6%) 405 (1.6%) 163 (2.7%) 223 (1.5%)
(1.5%) (2.0%) (1.1%)
Admission/Written Statement
2 (0.0%) 54 (0.0%) 107 (0.0%) 1 (0.0%) 2 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 24 (0.0%)
Obtained from Student
138,472 333,999 950,372 20,183 12,704 788,840
No Action Taken 127,341 (93.1%) 4,825 (79.0%)
(91.2%) (69.0%) (80.0%) (78.3%) (83.1%) (84.8%)
1,150 13,900 26,403 266 18,150
Search Person Consent Given 663 (95.8%) 878 (96.2%) 106 (92.2%)
(94.5%) (94.2%) (96.2%) (96.4%) (94.8%)
Search Property Consent 907 11,493 18,195 147 10,141
481 (93.2%) 523 (94.7%) 59 (89.4%)
Given (92.0%) (93.3%) (94.8%) (94.2%) (92.4%)
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Middle
Native Pacific
Action Taken Asian Black Hispanic Eastern/South Multiracial White
American Islander
Asian
Notes. Due to the values only being selectable under certain circumstances, percentages for the variables “Search Person Consent Given” and “Search
Property Consent Given” are calculated based on the number of individuals from the given racial or ethnic group that officers asked for consent to perform a
search, rather than the total number of stopped individuals from the given racial or ethnic group.
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A.9 All Actions Taken During Stop by Gender
(Cisgender) Gender (Cisgender) Transgender Transgender
Action Taken
Female Nonconforming Male Man/Boy Woman/Girl
Removed from Vehicle by Order 17,148 (5.1%) 87 (7.6%) 76,530 (8.5%) 258 (8.1%) 123 (7.0%)
Removed from Vehicle by Physical
1,029 (0.3%) 4 (0.3%) 6,124 (0.7%) 15 (0.5%) 9 (0.5%)
Contact
Field Sobriety Test 2,276 (0.7%) 8 (0.7%) 9,788 (1.1%) 36 (1.1%) 18 (1.0%)
Curbside Detention 38,566 (11.5%) 140 (12.2%) 150,673 (16.7%) 699 (22.0%) 416 (23.8%)
Handcuffed 43,533 (13.0%) 177 (15.5%) 195,162 (21.7%) 1,152 (36.3%) 731 (41.9%)
Patrol Car Detention 27,056 (8.1%) 96 (8.4%) 99,484 (11.0%) 367 (11.6%) 281 (16.1%)
Canine Search 160 (0.0%) 3 (0.3%) 966 (0.1%) 3 (0.1%) 0 (0.0%)
Firearm Point 2,135 (0.6%) 9 (0.8%) 10,773 (1.2%) 61 (1.9%) 34 (1.9%)
Firearm Discharge 11 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 79 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)
Electronic Control Device 36 (0.0%) 1 (0.1%) 496 (0.1%) 4 (0.1%) 1 (0.1%)
Impact Projectile Discharge 33 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 244 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)
Canine Bite 13 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 130 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)
Baton 16 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 140 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 1 (0.1%)
Chemical Spray 51 (0.0%) 1 (0.1%) 202 (0.0%) 1 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)
Other Physical of Vehicle Contact 2,433 (0.7%) 7 (0.6%) 7,080 (0.8%) 28 (0.9%) 17 (1.0%)
Person Photographed 3,517 (1.1%) 17 (1.5%) 11,728 (1.3%) 36 (1.1%) 39 (2.2%)
Asked for Consent to Search Person 9,536 (2.9%) 45 (3.9%) 54,134 (6.0%) 213 (6.7%) 63 (3.6%)
Searched Person 42,232 (12.6%) 192 (16.8%) 236,892 (26.3%) 1,193 (37.6%) 592 (33.9%)
Asked for Consent to Search Property 7,377 (2.2%) 48 (4.2%) 36,104 (4.0%) 189 (6.0%) 56 (3.2%)
Searched Property 24,296 (7.3%) 105 (9.2%) 119,907 (13.3%) 553 (17.4%) 272 (15.6%)
Property Seized 4,253 (1.3%) 27 (2.4%) 19,078 (2.1%) 53 (1.7%) 62 (3.6%)
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(Cisgender) Gender (Cisgender) Transgender Transgender
Action Taken
Female Nonconforming Male Man/Boy Woman/Girl
Vehicle Impound 3,390 (1.0%) 11 (1.0%) 13,009 (1.4%) 51 (1.6%) 23 (1.3%)
Admission/Written Statement
67 (0.0%) 1 (0.1%) 122 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)
Obtained from Student
No Action Taken 238,254 (71.3%) 770 (67.4%) 515,804 (57.2%) 1,269 (40.0%) 669 (38.3%)
Search Person Consent Given 9,058 (95.0%) 44 (97.8%) 51,682 (95.5%) 205 (96.2%) 59 (93.7%)
Search Property Consent Given 6,901 (93.5%) 45 (93.8%) 34,019 (94.2%) 183 (96.8%) 52 (92.9%)
Notes. The CHP was excluded from the analysis of perceived gender due to a technical error. Percentages for the variables “Search Person Consent Given”
and “Search Property Consent Given” are calculated based on the number of individuals officers asked for consent to search and individuals officers asked for
consent to search their property from the given gender group and not the total number of individuals stopped from the given gender group.
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A.10 All Actions Taken During Stop by Age Group
Action Taken 1-9 10-14 15-17 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+
Removed from Vehicle by 211 2,772 26,717 47,781 22,660 10,067 4,039 938
45 (3.3%)
Order (4.7%) (8.6%) (5.3%) (4.9%) (3.6%) (2.3%) (1.6%) (0.9%)
Removed from Vehicle by 217 1,622 3,335 1,566 638 239
10 (0.7%) 23 (0.5%) 41 (0.0%)
Physical Contact (0.7%) (0.3%) (0.3%) (0.2%) (0.1%) (0.1%)
425 11,953 22,265 12,137 6,476 3,719 1,279
Field Sobriety Test 0 (0.0%) 3 (0.1%)
(1.3%) (2.3%) (2.3%) (1.9%) (1.5%) (1.5%) (1.3%)
877 4,779 33,265 73,779 45,557 25,873 12,833 3,255
Curbside Detention 114 (8.3%)
(19.6%) (14.8%) (6.5%) (7.6%) (7.1%) (6.0%) (5.0%) (3.2%)
1,434 7,238 46,660 109,091 64,533 32,661 14,813 3,474
Handcuffed 73 (5.3%)
(32.1%) (22.4%) (9.2%) (11.3%) (10.1%) (7.6%) (5.8%) (3.4%)
1,009 3,492 19,949 50,739 31,524 16,513 7,423 2,018
Patrol Car Detention 115 (8.3%)
(22.6%) (10.8%) (3.9%) (5.2%) (4.9%) (3.8%) (2.9%) (2.0%)
328 916 532 221
Canine Search 0 (0.0%) 3 (0.1%) 48 (0.1%) 96 (0.0%) 21 (0.0%)
(0.1%) (0.1%) (0.1%) (0.1%)
626 2,930 5,833 3,118 1,342 501 109
Firearm Point 6 (0.4%) 79 (1.8%)
(1.9%) (0.6%) (0.6%) (0.5%) (0.3%) (0.2%) (0.1%)
Firearm Discharge 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 5 (0.0%) 43 (0.0%) 50 (0.0%) 24 (0.0%) 14 (0.0%) 7 (0.0%) 3 (0.0%)
276 193
Electronic Control Device 0 (0.0%) 2 (0.0%) 11 (0.0%) 83 (0.0%) 58 (0.0%) 34 (0.0%) 6 (0.0%)
(0.0%) (0.0%)
128
Impact Projectile Discharge 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 3 (0.0%) 29 (0.0%) 82 (0.0%) 42 (0.0%) 17 (0.0%) 3 (0.0%)
(0.0%)
Canine Bite 0 (0.0%) 1 (0.0%) 2 (0.0%) 28 (0.0%) 63 (0.0%) 45 (0.0%) 19 (0.0%) 15 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)
Baton 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 2 (0.0%) 20 (0.0%) 82 (0.0%) 50 (0.0%) 13 (0.0%) 11 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)
108
Chemical Spray 0 (0.0%) 1 (0.0%) 2 (0.0%) 33 (0.0%) 76 (0.0%) 31 (0.0%) 19 (0.0%) 2 (0.0%)
(0.0%)
Other Physical of Vehicle 204 1,397 3,698 2,627 1,440 752 305
8 (0.6%) 42 (0.9%)
Contact (0.6%) (0.3%) (0.4%) (0.4%) (0.3%) (0.3%) (0.3%)
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Action Taken 1-9 10-14 15-17 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+
126 546 2,431 5,951 4,308 2,591 1,392 405
Person Photographed 12 (0.9%)
(2.8%) (1.7%) (0.5%) (0.6%) (0.7%) (0.6%) (0.5%) (0.4%)
Asked for Consent to 214 1,236 9,562 25,307 16,041 8,152 3,334 681
34 (2.5%)
Search Person (4.8%) (3.8%) (1.9%) (2.6%) (2.5%) (1.9%) (1.3%) (0.7%)
1,483 8,217 55,696 127,662 72,712 36,090 15,850 3,763
Searched Person 131 (9.5%)
(33.2%) (25.4%) (10.9%) (13.2%) (11.4%) (8.4%) (6.2%) (3.7%)
Asked for Consent to 106 764 7,580 18,359 10,646 4,955 1,928 399
21 (1.5%)
Search Property (2.4%) (2.4%) (1.5%) (1.9%) (1.7%) (1.2%) (0.8%) (0.4%)
497 3,364 27,983 64,227 34,629 16,018 6,369 1,394
Searched Property 93 (6.7%)
(11.1%) (10.4%) (5.5%) (6.6%) (5.4%) (3.7%) (2.5%) (1.4%)
124 604 3,628 9,762 6,456 3,397 1,535 316
Property Seized 15 (1.1%)
(2.8%) (1.9%) (0.7%) (1.0%) (1.0%) (0.8%) (0.6%) (0.3%)
840 9,961 16,565 9,150 4,526 2,258 629
Vehicle Impound 8 (0.6%) 44 (1.0%)
(2.6%) (2.0%) (1.7%) (1.4%) (1.1%) (0.9%) (0.6%)
Admission/Written
119
Statement Obtained from 0 (0.0%) 64 (1.4%) 7 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)
(0.4%)
Student
1,024 1,582 18,375 410,603 754,358 513,032 362,519 221,898 93,343
No Action Taken
(74.1%) (35.4%) (56.9%) (80.7%) (78.0%) (80.4%) (84.3%) (87.3%) (91.4%)
Search Person Consent 201 1,170 9,098 24,155 15,288 7,788 3,140 643
32 (94.1%)
Given (93.9%) (94.7%) (95.1%) (95.4%) (95.3%) (95.5%) (94.2%) (94.4%)
Search Property Consent 21 101 721 7,083 17,223 9,977 4,650 1,806 364
Given (100.0%) (95.3%) (94.4%) (93.4%) (93.8%) (93.7%) (93.8%) (93.7%) (91.2%)
Notes. Percentages for the variables “Search Person Consent Given” and “Search Property Consent Given” are calculated based on the number of
individuals officers asked for consent to search their person and individuals officers asked for consent to search their property from the given age
group and not the total number of individuals stopped from the given age group.
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A.11 All Actions Taken During Stop by LGBT, Limited English Fluency, or Disability Group
English Limited/No English
Action Taken Non-LGBT LGBT No Disability Disability
Fluent Fluency
93,095 109,227
Removed from Vehicle by Order 1,051 (6.2%) 6,003 (5.2%) 114,223 (3.9%) 1,007 (2.8%)
(7.6%) (3.9%)
Removed from Vehicle by Physical
7,081 (0.6%) 100 (0.6%) 7,415 (0.3%) 276 (0.2%) 7,524 (0.3%) 167 (0.5%)
Contact
11,888
Field Sobriety Test 238 (1.4%) 52,328 (1.9%) 5,929 (5.1%) 57,699 (2.0%) 558 (1.6%)
(1.0%)
187,427 3,067 191,445
Curbside Detention 8,887 (7.7%) 192,388 (6.6%) 7,943 (22.2%)
(15.3%) (18.1%) (6.8%)
235,852 4,903 265,455 18,493
Handcuffed 14,523 (12.6%) 261,484 (9.0%)
(19.3%) (29.0%) (9.4%) (51.8%)
124,836 2,448 127,251
Patrol Car Detention 5,531 (4.8%) 123,074 (4.2%) 9,707 (27.2%)
(10.2%) (14.5%) (4.5%)
Canine Search 1,109 (0.1%) 23 (0.1%) 1,975 (0.1%) 190 (0.2%) 2,129 (0.1%) 36 (0.1%)
1,2825
Firearm Point 187 (1.1%) 13,856 (0.5%) 688 (0.6%) 14,062 (0.5%) 482 (1.3%)
(1.0%)
Firearm Discharge 90 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 137 (0.0%) 9 (0.0%) 142 (0.0%) 4 (0.0%)
Electronic Control Device 526 (0.0%) 12 (0.1%) 637 (0.0%) 26 (0.0%) 560 (0.0%) 103 (0.3%)
Impact Projectile Discharge 272 (0.0%) 5 (0.0%) 289 (0.0%) 15 (0.0%) 253 (0.0%) 51 (0.1%)
Canine Bite 142 (0.0%) 1 (0.0%) 171 (0.0%) 2 (0.0%) 165 (0.0%) 8 (0.0%)
Baton 154 (0.0%) 3 (0.0%) 172 (0.0%) 6 (0.0%) 156 (0.0%) 22 (0.1%)
Chemical Spray 238 (0.0%) 17 (0.1%) 266 (0.0%) 6 (0.0%) 241 (0.0%) 31 (0.1%)
Other Physical of Vehicle Contact 9,355 (0.8%) 210 (1.2%) 10,098 (0.4%) 375 (0.3%) 9,414 (0.3%) 1,059 (3.0%)
14,911
Person Photographed 426 (2.5%) 16,752 (0.6%) 1,010 (0.9%) 16,774 (0.6%) 988 (2.8%)
(1.2%)
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English Limited/No English
Action Taken Non-LGBT LGBT No Disability Disability
Fluent Fluency
6,2963
Asked for Consent to Search Person 1,028 (6.1%) 62,721 (2.2%) 1,841 (1.6%) 62,207 (2.1%) 2,355 (6.6%)
(5.1%)
276,515 4,587 306,246 305,333 16,273
Searched Person 15,361 (13.3%)
(22.6%) (27.1%) (10.9%) (10.5%) (45.6%)
Asked for Consent to Search 43,099
675 (4.0%) 43,244 (1.5%) 1,514 (1.3%) 43,835 (1.5%) 923 (2.6%)
Property (3.5%)
142,883 2,250 149,117
Searched Property 5,458 (4.7%) 149,977 (5.2%) 4,598 (12.9%)
(11.7%) (13.3%) (5.3%)
23,016
Property Seized 457 (2.7%) 24,542 (0.9%) 1,296 (1.1%) 24,888 (0.9%) 950 (2.7%)
(1.9%)
16,252
Vehicle Impound 232 (1.4%) 39,659 (1.4%) 4,322 (3.7%) 43,595 (1.5%) 386 (1.1%)
(1.3%)
Admission/Written Statement
189 (0.0%) 1 (0.0%) 180 (0.0%) 10 (0.0%) 181 (0.0%) 9 (0.0%)
Obtained from Student
748,072 8,694 2,289,643 2,367,594
No Action Taken 87,093 (75.4%) 9,142 (25.6%)
(61.1%) (51.3%) (81.1%) (81.6%)
60,078 59,746
Search Person Consent Given 970 (94.4%) 1,770 (96.1%) 59,313 (95.3%) 2,203 (93.5%)
(95.4%) (95.3%)
40,565 40,499
Search Property Consent Given 635 (94.1%) 1,447 (95.6%) 41,096 (93.8%) 850 (92.1%)
(94.1%) (93.7%)
Notes. The CHP was excluded from the analysis of perceived LGBT due to a technical error in CHP’s data. Percentages for the variables “Search
Person Consent Given” and “Search Property Consent Given” are calculated based on the number of individuals officers asked for consent to
search and individuals officers asked for consent to search their property from the given identity group and not the total number of individuals
stopped from the given identity group.
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A.12 Stops by Identity Group and Stop Result for Handcuffed Individuals
Identity Group No Action Arrested Other Total
Race/Ethnicity Asian 491 (7.7%) 3,851 (60.3%) 2,049 (32.1%) 6,391 (100.0%)
Black 9,786 (13.2%) 37,492 (50.6%) 26,779 (36.2%) 74,057 (100.0%)
Hispanic 12,141 (10.1%) 66,218 (54.9%) 42,280 (35.0%) 120,639 (100.0%)
Middle Eastern/South Asian 394 (8.8%) 2,660 (59.2%) 1,443 (32.1%) 4,497 (100.0%)
Multiracial 289 (10.4%) 1,540 (55.3%) 957 (34.4%) 2,786 (100.0%)
Native American 46 (6.6%) 515 (73.7%) 138 (19.7%) 699 (100.0%)
Pacific Islander 123 (9.0%) 866 (63.6%) 372 (27.3%) 1,361 (100.0%)
White 6,935 (10.0%) 41,712 (60.0%) 20,901 (30.1%) 69,548 (100.0%)
Gender (Cisgender) Female 4,460 (10.2%) 23,206 (53.3%) 15,867 (36.4%) 43,533 (100.0%)
Gender Nonconforming 16 (9.0%) 96 (54.2%) 65 (36.7%) 177 (100.0%)
(Cisgender) Male 25,493 (13.1%) 93,658 (48.0%) 76,011 (38.9%) 195,162 (100.0%)
Transgender Man/Boy 130 (11.3%) 559 (48.5%) 463 (40.2%) 1,152 (100.0%)
Transgender Woman/Girl 78 (10.7%) 400 (54.7%) 253 (34.6%) 731 (100.0%)
Age Group 1-9 6 (8.2%) 30 (41.1%) 37 (50.7%) 73 (100.0%)
10-14 120 (8.4%) 442 (30.8%) 872 (60.8%) 1,434 (100.0%)
15-17 896 (12.4%) 2,588 (35.8%) 3,754 (51.9%) 7,238 (100.0%)
18-24 5,434 (11.6%) 23,609 (50.6%) 17,617 (37.8%) 46,660 (100.0%)
25-34 12,605 (11.6%) 59,639 (54.7%) 36,847 (33.8%) 109,091 (100.0%)
35-44 6,718 (10.4%) 37,401 (58.0%) 20,414 (31.6%) 64,533 (100.0%)
45-54 3,113 (9.5%) 19,623 (60.1%) 9,925 (30.4%) 32,661 (100.0%)
55-64 1,092 (7.4%) 9,402 (63.5%) 4,319 (29.2%) 14,813 (100.0%)
65+ 221 (6.4%) 2,119 (61.0%) 1,134 (32.6%) 3,474 (100.0%)
LGBT Non-LGBT 29,718 (12.6%) 115,315 (48.9%) 90,819 (38.5%) 235,852 (100.0%)
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Identity Group No Action Arrested Other Total
LGBT 459 (9.4%) 2,604 (53.1%) 1,840 (37.5%) 4,903 (100.0%)
Limited English Fluency English Fluent 29,360 (11.1%) 144,868 (54.6%) 91,227 (34.4%) 265,455 (100.0%)
Limited/No English Fluency 845 (5.8%) 9,986 (68.8%) 3,692 (25.4%) 14,523 (100.0%)
Disability No Disability 29,195 (11.2%) 149,525 (57.2%) 82,764 (31.7%) 261,484 (100.0%)
Disability 1,010 (5.5%) 5,328 (28.8%) 12,155 (65.7%) 18,493 (100.0%)
Overall 30,205 (10.8%) 154,854 (55.3%) 94,919 (33.9%) 279,978 (100.0%)
Note. Corrections to the total column counts were applied on 11/7/2023.
Note. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) was excluded from the analysis of perceived gender and LGBT due to a technical error in CHP’s data.
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A.13 Stops by Identity Group and Stop Result
Identity Group Warning Citation Arrest Total
Race/Ethnicity Asian 37,785 (24.9%) 96,453 (63.5%) 11,371 (7.5%) 151,813 (100.0%)
Black 141,166 (29.1%) 194,930 (40.2%) 62,872 (13.0%) 484,364 (100.0%)
Hispanic 300,664 (25.3%) 648,824 (54.6%) 139,697 (11.8%) 1,187,727 (100.0%)
Middle Eastern/South Asian 34,790 (25.4%) 92,195 (67.4%) 6,208 (4.5%) 136,806 (100.0%)
Multiracial 7,501 (29.1%) 12,942 (50.2%) 2,988 (11.6%) 25,777 (100.0%)
Native American 1,977 (32.4%) 2,697 (44.2%) 1,050 (17.2%) 6,105 (100.0%)
Pacific Islander 3,936 (25.7%) 8,431 (55.1%) 1,759 (11.5%) 15,292 (100.0%)
White 283,893 (30.5%) 491,284 (52.8%) 86,767 (9.3%) 929,776 (100.0%)
Gender (Cisgender) Female 80,260 (24.0%) 127,412 (38.1%) 57,155 (17.1%) 334,056 (100.0%)
Gender Nonconforming 198 (17.3%) 572 (50.0%) 160 (14.0%) 1,143 (100.0%)
(Cisgender) Male 239,566 (26.6%) 259,693 (28.8%) 172,651 (19.2%) 901,149 (100.0%)
Transgender Man/Boy 622 (19.6%) 595 (18.7%) 756 (23.8%) 3,175 (100.0%)
Transgender Woman/Girl 307 (17.6%) 258 (14.8%) 504 (28.8%) 1,747 (100.0%)
Age Group 1-9 268 (19.4%) 372 (26.9%) 108 (7.8%) 1,381 (100.0%)
10-14 639 (14.3%) 388 (8.7%) 730 (16.3%) 4,472 (100.0%)
15-17 6597 (20.4%) 12,562 (38.9%) 4,299 (13.3%) 32,304 (100.0%)
18-24 111,505 (21.9%) 302,690 (59.5%) 51,843 (10.2%) 508,662 (100.0%)
25-34 259,958 (26.9%) 498,278 (51.5%) 111,104 (11.5%) 966,822 (100.0%)
35-44 188,848 (29.6%) 320,503 (50.3%) 71,564 (11.2%) 637,762 (100.0%)
45-54 132,100 (30.7%) 221,132 (51.4%) 42,200 (9.8%) 429,894 (100.0%)
55-64 76,904 (30.3%) 137,395 (54.0%) 23,356 (9.2%) 254,220 (100.0%)
65+ 34,892 (34.2%) 54,436 (53.3%) 7,506 (7.3%) 102,139 (100.0%)
LGBT LGBT 3,651 (21.6%) 3,456 (20.4%) 4,259 (25.2%) 16,932 (100.0%)
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Identity Group Warning Citation Arrest Total
Non-LGBT 317,302 (25.9%) 385,074 (31.5%) 226,967 (18.5%) 1,224,339 (100.0%)
Limited English Fluent 781,537 (27.7%) 1,488,144 (52.7%) 294,631 (10.4%) 2,822,202 (100.0%)
English
Limited/No English Fluency 30,175 (26.1%) 59,612 (51.6%) 18,081 (15.7%) 115,459 (100.0%)
Fluency
Disability Disability 4,915 (13.8%) 2,424 (6.8%) 6,768 (19.0%) 35,708 (100.0%)
No Disability 806,797 (27.8%) 1,545,332 (53.3%) 305,943 (10.5%) 2,901,951 (100.0%)
Overall 811,712 (27.6%) 1,547,756 (52.7%) 312,712 (10.6%) 2,937,662 (100.0%)
Note. Corrections to the total column counts were applied on 11/7/2023.
Note. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) was excluded from the analysis of perceived gender and LGBT due to a technical error in CHP’s data.
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A.14 Consent Inquiries and Search Rates
Asked for Consent and Response Consent Response Search Rates
Consent Not
Race/Ethnicity
Asked for Consent Not Consent Received
Consent Received Received &
Consent Received & Searched
Searched
Asian 1,630 (1.1%) 1,513 (92.8%) 117 (7.2%) 1,169 (77.3%) 68 (58.1%)
Black 19,355 (4.0%) 18,192 (94.0%) 1,163 (6.0%) 13,968 (76.8%) 624 (53.7%)
Hispanic 33,763 (2.8%) 32,278 (95.6%) 1,485 (4.4%) 25,045 (77.6%) 703 (47.3%)
Middle Eastern/South Asian 896 (0.7%) 843 (94.1%) 53 (5.9%) 652 (77.3%) 33 (62.3%)
Multiracial 1,069 (4.1%) 1,021 (95.5%) 48 (4.5%) 842 (82.5%) 31 (64.6%)
Native American 135 (2.2%) 123 (91.1%) 12 (8.9%) 87 (70.7%) 4 (33.3%)
Pacific Islander 325 (2.1%) 309 (95.1%) 16 (4.9%) 228 (73.8%) 7 (43.8%)
White 21,861 (2.4%) 20,508 (93.8%) 1,353 (6.2%) 16,149 (78.7%) 741 (54.8%)
Overall 79,034 (2.7%) 74,787 (94.6%) 4,247 (5.4%) 58,140 (77.7%) 2,211 (52.1%)
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A.15 Consent Search Rates
Search Rates
Consent Only Searches Consent Plus Searches Other Discretionary Searches
Race/Ethnicity
Proportion of Proportion of Proportion of Proportion of Proportion of Proportion of
Stops Searches Stops Searches Stops Searches
Asian 752 (0.5%) 752 (10.3%) 690 (0.5%) 690 (9.5%) 2,214 (1.5%) 2,214 (30.4%)
Black 10,137 (2.1%) 10,137 (10.1%) 12,583 (2.6%) 12,583 (12.5%) 45,037 (9.3%) 45,037 (44.9%)
Hispanic 18,799 (1.6%) 18,799 (12.7%) 19,383 (1.6%) 19,383 (13.1%) 50,941 (4.3%) 50,941 (34.3%)
Middle Eastern/South Asian 408 (0.3%) 408 (8.6%) 495 (0.4%) 495 (10.4%) 1,330 (1.0%) 1,330 (27.9%)
Multiracial 368 (1.4%) 368 (10.1%) 710 (2.8%) 710 (19.4%) 1,232 (4.8%) 1,232 (33.7%)
Native American 60 (1.0%) 60 (7.7%) 52 (0.9%) 52 (6.7%) 197 (3.2%) 197 (25.4%)
Pacific Islander 128 (0.8%) 128 (8.1%) 132 (0.9%) 132 (8.4%) 544 (3.6%) 544 (34.6%)
White 9,057 (1.0%) 9,057 (11.1%) 10,100 (1.1%) 10,100 (12.4%) 26,573 (2.9%) 26,573 (32.6%)
Overall 39,709 (1.4%) 39,709 (11.4%) 44,145 (1.5%) 44,145 (12.7%) 128,068 (4.4%) 128,068 (36.8%)
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A.16 Consent Search Discovery Rates
Discovery Rates
Race/Ethnicity
Other Discretionary
Consent Only Searches Consent Plus Basis
Searches
Asian 159 (21.1%) 237 (34.3%) 517 (23.4%)
Black 866 (8.5%) 3,366 (26.8%) 10,368 (23.0%)
Hispanic 2,122 (11.3%) 4,623 (23.9%) 11,101 (21.8%)
Middle Eastern/South Asian 70 (17.2%) 126 (25.5%) 265 (19.9%)
Multiracial 48 (13.0%) 149 (21.0%) 266 (21.6%)
Native American 12 (20.0%) 13 (25.0%) 52 (26.4%)
Pacific Islander 26 (20.3%) 35 (26.5%) 120 (22.1%)
White 1,601 (17.7%) 2,808 (27.8%) 6,877 (25.9%)
Overall 4,904 (12.3%) 11,357 (25.7%) 29,566 (23.1%)
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A.17 Reason for Stop for Consent Only Searches
Education School
Race/Ethnicity Traffic Consensual Supervision Suspicion Truancy Warrant/Wanted
Code Policy
186 0 209
Asian 331 (44.0%) 0 (0.0%) 7 (0.9%) 8 (1.1%) 11 (1.5%)
(24.7%) (0.0%) (27.8%)
6,725 1,195 0 2,023 54
Black 0 (0.0%) 86 (0.8%) 54 (0.5%)
(66.3%) (11.8%) (0.0%) (20.0%) (0.5%)
11,000 3,185 0 4,212 112
Hispanic 0 (0.0%) 158 (0.8%) 132 (0.7%)
(58.5%) (16.9%) (0.0%) (22.4%) (0.6%)
Middle Eastern/South 0 132
207 (50.7%) 60 (14.7%) 0 (0.0%) 6 (1.5%) 0 (0.0%) 3 (0.7%)
Asian (0.0%) (32.4%)
0
Multiracial 178 (48.4%) 89 (24.2%) 0 (0.0%) 1 (0.3%) 95 (25.8%) 1 (0.3%) 4 (1.1%)
(0.0%)
0
Native American 19 (31.7%) 20 (33.3%) 0 (0.0%) 2 (3.3%) 16 (26.7%) 1 (1.7%) 2 (3.3%)
(0.0%)
1
Pacific Islander 49 (38.3%) 34 (26.6%) 0 (0.0%) 1 (0.8%) 38 (29.7%) 2 (1.6%) 3 (2.3%)
(0.8%)
2,678 3,072 0 2,968 106
White 0 (0.0%) 105 (1.2%) 128 (1.4%)
(29.6%) (33.9%) (0.0%) (32.8%) (1.2%)
21,187 7,841 1 9,693 284
Overall 0 (0.0%) 366 (0.9%) 337 (0.8%)
(53.4%) (19.7%) (0.0%) (24.4%) (0.7%)
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A.18 Reason for Stop for Consent Only Search by Search Type
Search Type & Middle Eastern/ Native Pacific
Asian Black Hispanic Multiracial White Overall
Race/Ethnicity South Asian American Islander
61 1,619 3,217 6 14 723 5,747
Person 50 (24.2%) 57 (32.0%)
(18.4%) (24.1%) (29.2%) (31.6%) (28.6%) (27.0%) (27.1%)
Traffic 132 1,486 2,429 5 10 509 4,683
Property 63 (30.4%) 49 (27.5%)
Violation (39.9%) (22.1%) (22.1%) (26.3%) (20.4%) (19.0%) (22.1%)
Person & 138 3,620 5,354 72 8 25 1,446 10,757
94 (45.4%)
Property (41.7%) (53.8%) (48.7%) (40.5%) (42.1%) (51.0%) (54.0%) (50.8%)
193 1,901 4,562 111 20 39 3,644 10,576
Person 106 (52.7%)
(45.8%) (55.7%) (58.5%) (58.4%) (48.8%) (49.4%) (57.1%) (57.1%)
Non-
60 530 824 3 11 699 2,182
Traffic Property 30 (14.9%) 25 (13.2%)
(14.3%) (15.5%) (10.6%) (7.3%) (13.9%) (11.0%) (11.8%)
Violation
Person & 168 981 2,413 18 29 2,036 5,764
65 (32.3%) 54 (28.4%)
Property (39.9%) (28.8%) (30.9%) (43.9%) (36.7%) (31.9%) (31.1%)
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A.19 Known Supervision Searches
Search Rates
Stopped for
Stopped for Supervision Only Other Discretionary
Known Supervision Plus Searches
Race/Ethnicity Known Searches Searches
Supervision
Supervision
and Searched Proportion Proportion Proportion Proportion Proportion Proportion
of Stops of Searches of Stops of Searches of Stops of Searches
826 2,454 2,454
Asian 263 (0.2%) 195 (74.1%) 826 (0.5%) 298 (0.2%) 298 (4.1%)
(11.3%) (1.6%) (33.7%)
17,309 17,309 9,774 9,774 41,267 41,267
Black 5,236 (1.1%) 4,241 (81.0%)
(3.6%) (17.3%) (2.0%) (9.7%) (8.5%) (41.1%)
17,897 17,897 11,651 11,651 58,819 58,819
Hispanic 9,467 (0.8%) 7,387 (78.0%)
(1.5%) (12.1%) (1.0%) (7.8%) (5.0%) (39.6%)
Middle
1,572 1,572
Eastern/South 167 (0.1%) 126 (75.4%) 403 (0.3%) 403 (8.5%) 229 (0.2%) 229 (4.8%)
(1.1%) (33.0%)
Asian
479 430 1,362 1,362
Multiracial 271 (1.1%) 211 (77.9%) 479 (1.9%) 430 (1.7%)
(13.1%) (11.8%) (5.3%) (37.3%)
Native 87 178 178
56 (0.9%) 43 (76.8%) 87 (1.4%) 49 (0.8%) 49 (6.3%)
American (11.2%) (2.9%) (23.0%)
242 471 471
Pacific Islander 99 (0.6%) 85 (85.9%) 242 (1.6%) 92 (0.6%) 92 (5.9%)
(15.4%) (3.1%) (30.0%)
11,991 11,991 5,453 5,453 27,653 27,653
White 5,500 (0.6%) 4,070 (74.0%)
(1.3%) (14.7%) (0.6%) (6.7%) (3.0%) (33.9%)
49,234 49,234 27,976 27,976 133,776 133,776
Overall 21,059 (0.7%) 16,358 (77.7%)
(1.7%) (14.1%) (1.0%) (8.0%) (4.6%) (38.4%)
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A.20 Supervision Search Discovery Rates
Discovery Rates
Race/Ethnicity
Supervision Only Searches Supervision Plus Searches Other Discretionary Searches
Asian 210 (25.4%) 117 (39.3%) 555 (22.6%)
Black 2,911 (16.8%) 3,044 (31.1%) 9,020 (21.9%)
Hispanic 3,231 (18.1%) 3,168 (27.2%) 11,363 (19.3%)
Middle Eastern/South Asian 86 (21.3%) 76 (33.2%) 296 (18.8%)
Multiracial 106 (22.1%) 102 (23.7%) 254 (18.6%)
Native American 24 (27.6%) 14 (28.6%) 42 (23.6%)
Pacific Islander 59 (24.4%) 37 (40.2%) 88 (18.7%)
White 3,380 (28.2%) 1,949 (35.7%) 5,870 (21.2%)
Overall 10,007 (20.3%) 8,507 (30.4%) 27,488 (20.5%)
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A.21 Reason for Stop by Search Type
Schoo
Type of Race/Ethnicit Consens Educatio Supervisio Suspicio Truanc Warrant/Wante
Traffic l Total
Search y ual n Code n n y d
Policy
0 826
394 45 153 211 3
Asian 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 20 (2.4%) (100.0%
(47.7%) (5.4%) (18.5%) (25.5%) (0.4%)
) )
0 17,309
10,069 614 2,643 3,673 64
Black 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 246 (1.4%) (100.0%
(58.2%) (3.5%) (15.3%) (21.2%) (0.4%)
) )
0 17,897
8,486 773 4,837 3,510 66
Hispanic 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 225 (1.3%) (100.0%
(47.4%) (4.3%) (27.0%) (19.6%) (0.4%)
) )
Middle 0 403
207 14 76 99 3
Eastern/South 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 4 (1.0%) (100.0%
Supervision (51.4%) (3.5%) (18.9%) (24.5%) (0.7%)
Asian ) )
Only
0 479
Searches 224 18 106 121 1
Multiracial 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 9 (1.9%) (100.0%
(46.8%) (3.8%) (22.1%) (25.3%) (0.2%)
) )
0 87
22 8 28 26 0
Native American 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 3 (3.4%) (100.0%
(25.3%) (9.2%) (32.2%) (29.9%) (0.0%)
) )
0 242
87 13 63 67 2
Pacific Islander 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 10 (4.1%) (100.0%
(36.0%) (5.4%) (26.0%) (27.7%) (0.8%)
) )
0 11,991
3,611 877 2,840 4,405 64
White 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 194 (1.6%) (100.0%
(30.1%) (7.3%) (23.7%) (36.7%) (0.5%)
) )
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Schoo
Type of Race/Ethnicit Consens Educatio Supervisio Suspicio Truanc Warrant/Wante
Traffic l Total
Search y ual n Code n n y d
Policy
0 49,234
23,100 2,362 10,746 12,112 203
Overall 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 711 (1.4%) (100.0%
(46.9%) (4.8%) (21.8%) (24.6%) (0.4%)
) )
0 298
127 14 110 2
Asian 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 18 (6.0%) 27 (9.1%) (100.0%
(42.6%) (4.7%) (36.9%) (0.7%)
) )
0 9,774
4,751 265 1,184 3,193 37
Black 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 344 (3.5%) (100.0%
(48.6%) (2.7%) (12.1%) (32.7%) (0.4%)
) )
0 11,651
5,444 461 1,899 3,373 71
Hispanic 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 403 (3.5%) (100.0%
(46.7%) (4.0%) (16.3%) (29.0%) (0.6%)
) )
Middle 0 229
93 13 36 72 0
Eastern/South 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 15 (6.6%) (100.0%
Supervision (40.6%) (5.7%) (15.7%) (31.4%) (0.0%)
Asian ) )
Plus
0 430
Searches 190 26 80 117 0
Multiracial 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 17 (4.0%) (100.0%
(44.2%) (6.0%) (18.6%) (27.2%) (0.0%)
) )
0 49
Native 19 5 9 10 1
0 (0.0%) (0.0% 5 (10.2%) (100.0%
American (38.8%) (10.2%) (18.4%) (20.4%) (2.0%)
) )
0 92
Pacific 39 4 11 33 0
0 (0.0%) (0.0% 5 (5.4%) (100.0%
Islander (42.4%) (4.3%) (11.9%) (35.9%) (0.0%)
) )
0 5,453
1,670 498 855 2,105 55
White 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 270 (5.0%) (100.0%
(30.6%) (9.1%) (15.7%) (38.6%) (1.0%)
) )
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Schoo
Type of Race/Ethnicit Consens Educatio Supervisio Suspicio Truanc Warrant/Wante
Traffic l Total
Search y ual n Code n n y d
Policy
0 27976
12333 1286 4092 9013 166
Overall 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 1086 (3.9%) (100.0%
(44.1%) (4.6%) (14.6%) (32.2%) (0.6%)
) )
1 2,454
731 358 1,288 37
Asian 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 10 (0.4%) 29 (1.2%) (100.0%
(29.8%) (14.6%) (52.5%) (1.5%)
) )
7 41,267
19,067 2,660 18,636 321
Black 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 255 (0.6%) 321 (0.8%) (100.0%
(46.2%) (6.4%) (45.2%) (0.8%)
) )
14 58,819
27,367 5,735 24,194 561
Hispanic 4 (0.0%) (0.0% 434 (0.7%) 510 (0.9%) (100.0%
(46.5%) (9.8%) (41.1%) (1.0%)
) )
Middle 1 1,572
566 144 818 21
Eastern/South 0 (0.0%) (0.1% 7 (0.4%) 15 (1.0%) (100.0%
Other (36.0%) (9.2%) (52.0%) (1.3%)
Asian ) )
Discretionar
0 1,362
y Searches 545 177 598 17
Multiracial 0 (0.0%) (0.0% 14 (1.0%) 11 (0.8%) (100.0%
(40.0%) (13.0%) (43.9%) (1.2%)
) )
0 178
Native 50 37 80 5
0 (0.0%) (0.0% 3 (1.7%) 3 (1.7%) (100.0%
American (28.1%) (20.8%) (44.9%) (2.8%)
) )
1 471
Pacific 139 64 247 8
0 (0.0%) (0.2% 2 (0.4%) 10 (2.1%) (100.0%
Islander (29.5%) (13.6%) (52.4%) (1.7%)
) )
3 27,653
6,847 5,696 13,957 549
White 1 (0.0%) (0.0% 204 (0.7%) 396 (1.4%) (100.0%
(24.8%) (20.6%) (50.5%) (2.0%)
) )
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Schoo
Type of Race/Ethnicit Consens Educatio Supervisio Suspicio Truanc Warrant/Wante
Traffic l Total
Search y ual n Code n n y d
Policy
27 133,776
55,312 14,871 59,818 1,519
Overall 5 (0.0%) (0.0% 929 (0.7%) 1,295 (1.0%) (100.0%
(41.4%) (11.1%) (44.7%) (1.1%)
) )
A.22 Search Rates by Gender
Gender Count % Total
Cisgender Female 49,342 14.8% 334,055
Cisgender Male 253,845 28.2% 901,149
Gender Nonconforming 229 20.0% 1,143
Transgender Man/Boy 1,275 40.2% 3,175
Transgender Woman/Girl 646 37.0% 1,746
Total 305,337 24.6% 1,241,268
Note. Due to an error found in the gender identity group data from the CHP, this analysis excludes data submitted by the CHP. There are three
individuals who are missing information pertaining to the actions taken toward individuals during the stop.
A.23 Search Discovery Rates by Gender
Gender Count % Total
Cisgender Female 11,168 22.6% 49,342
Cisgender Male 60,291 23.8% 253,843
Gender Nonconforming 49 21.4% 229
Transgender Man/Boy 223 17.5% 1,275
Transgender Woman/Girl 170 26.3% 646
Total 71,901 23.5% 305,335
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Note. There are two males who were searched but are missing data on contraband or evidence discovered. There are three individuals who are
missing information pertaining to the actions taken toward individuals during the stop. Due to an error with found in the gender identity group
data from the CHP, this analysis excludes data submitted by the CHP.
A.24 Use of Force Rates by Gender
Gender Count % Total
Cisgender Female 5,567 1.7% 334,055
Cisgender Male 23,962 2.7% 901,149
Gender Nonconforming 20 1.7% 1,143
Transgender Man/Boy 107 3.4% 3,175
Transgender Woman/Girl 56 3.2% 1,746
Total 29,712 2.4% 1,241,268
Note. There are three individuals who are missing information pertaining to the actions taken toward individuals during the stop. Due to an error
found in the gender identity group data from the CHP, this analysis excludes data submitted by the CHP.
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A.25 Reason for Stop by Gender
Cisgender Gender Transgender Transgender
Gender Male Total
Female Nonconforming Man/Boy Woman/Girl
244,257 597,599 769 1,410 608 844,643
Traffic Violation
(73.1%) (66.3%) (67.3%) (44.4%) (34.8%) (68.0%)
76,576 250,297 322 1,542 1,043 329,780
Reasonable Suspicion
(22.9%) (27.8%) (28.2%) (48.6%) (59.7%) (26.6%)
Parole /Probation/PRCS/ 2,644 18,176 14 98 25 20,957
Mandatory Supervision (0.8%) (2.0%) (1.2%) (3.1%) (1.4%) (1.7%)
Knowledge of Outstanding 3,631 12,133 6 62 28 15,860
Warrant/ Wanted Person (1.1%) (1.3%) (0.5%) (2.0%) (1.6%) (1.3%)
Investigation to Determine 2,700 6,419 11 16 12 9,158
Whether Person was Truant (0.8%) (0.7%) (1.0%) (0.5%) (0.7%) (0.7%)
Consensual Encounter Resulting 4,196 16,434 20 47 31 20,728
in a Search (1.3%) (1.8%) (1.7%) (1.5%) (1.8%) (1.7%)
Possible Conduct Under 10 23 33
- - -
Education Code (0.0%) (0.0%) (0.0%)
Determine Whether Student 42 69 1 112
- -
Violated School Policy (0.0%) (0.0%) (0.1%) (0.0%)
Total 334,056 901,150 1,143 3,175 1,747 1,241,271
Note. Due to an error found in the gender identity group data from the CHP, this analysis excludes data submitted by the CHP.
A.26 Reason for Stop Reasonable Suspicion Subfields by Gender
Officer Engaging
Match Witness/ Carry Suspect
Witness Drug In a
Gender Susp Victim Suspicious Casing Acting as Other
Commiss Transaction Violent
Descr Identific Weapon a Lookout
Crime Crime
Cisgender Female 37.1% 36.4% 16.5% 1.6% 0.9% 0.5% 0.9% 0.6% 22.5%
Cisgender Male 34.7% 33.1% 17.2% 0.7% 0.5% 0.4% 0.7% 0.5% 26.7%
Gender
32.2% 40.2% 22.0% 1.6% 0.3% 0.4% 0.6% 0.8% 21.0%
Nonconforming
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Transgender
30.7% 41.2% 24.3% 1.6% 0.1% 0.5% 0.8% 1.0% 24.1%
Man/Boy
Transgender
30.7% 48.4% 18.6% 3.4% 2.2% 3.7% 0.9% 1.6% 23.3%
Woman/Girl
Total 36.5% 35.6% 16.7% 1.4% 0.8% 0.4% 0.9% 0.6% 23.5%
Note. Reasonable suspicion subcategory percentages were calculated based on the number of individuals who were stopped for reasonable
suspicion (N = 205,493) per identity group (“Identity Group Total” column). Abbreviations for Reason for Stop left to right are: Officer Witness
Commiss Crime= Officer Witness Commission of a Crime, Match Susp Descr= Matched Suspect Description, Witness/Victim Identific=
Witness/Victim Identification. Due to an error found in the gender identity group data from the CHP, this analysis excludes data submitted by the
CHP.
A.27 Search Rates by Disability
Disability Count % Total
No Disability 331,291 11.4% 2,901,950
Mental Health Condition 13,843 55.1% 25,118
Other Disability 3,315 31.3% 10,589
348,449 11.9% 2,937,657
Total
Note. There are three individuals who are missing information pertaining to the actions taken toward individuals during the stop
A.28 Search Discovery Rates by Disability
Disability Count % Total
75,626 22.8% 331,290
No Disability
1,704 12.3% 13,842
Mental Health Condition
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710 21.4% 3,315
Other Disability
78,040 22.4% 348,447
Total
Note. There are two individuals who were searched, but are missing information on the discovery of contraband or evidence. There are three
individuals who are missing information pertaining to the actions taken toward individuals during the stop
A.29 Use of Force Rates by Disability
Disability Count % Total
No Disability 30,807 1.1% 2,901,950
Mental Health Condition 1,388 5.5% 25,118
Other Disability 384 3.6% 10,589
32,579 1.1% 2,937,657
Total
Note. There are three individuals who are missing information pertaining to the actions taken toward individuals during the stop.
A.30 Reason for Stop subfield by Disability
No Disability Mental Health Condition Other Disability Total
Disability
990 (3.9%) 4,460 (42.1%) 2,528,066 (86.1%)
Traffic Violation 2,522,616 (86.9%)
311,089 (10.7%) 21,495 (85.6%) 5,305 (50.1%) 337,889 (11.5%)
Reasonable Suspicion
20,697 (0.7%) 230 (0.9%) 131 (1.2%) 21,058 (0.7%)
Parole /Probation/PRCS/ Mandatory Supervision
Knowledge of Outstanding Warrant/ Wanted 16,039 (0.6%) 369 (1.5%) 193 (1.8%)
16,601 (0.6%)
Person
Investigation to Determine Whether Person was 8,845 (0.3%) 661 (2.6%) 168 (1.6%) 9,674 (0.3%)
Truant
22,540 (0.8%) 1,369 (5.5%) 317 (3.0%) 24,226 (0.8%)
Consensual Encounter Resulting in a Search
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31 (0.00%) 1 (0.00%) 1 (0.00%) 33 (0.0%)
Possible Conduct Under Education Code
95 (0.00%) 4 (0.00%) 14 (0.1%) 113 (0.00%)
Determine Whether Student Violated School Policy
2,901,952 25,119 10,589 2,937,660
Total
A.31 Reason for Stop Reasonable Suspicion subfields by Disability
Officer
Match Carry Suspect Engaging
Witness Witness/ Drug
Susp Suspicious Acting as a In a
Disability Commiss Victim Casing Transaction Other
Descr Weapon Lookout Violent
Crime Identific
Crime
38.5% 34.7% 16.3% 1.4% 0.8% 0.5% 0.9% 0.7% 22.2%
No Disability
Mental Health
12.1% 42.8% 21.1% 1.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.6% 43.0%
Condition
25.9% 41.1% 21.4% 1.3% 0.6% 0.1% 0.7% 0.6% 29.3%
Other Disability
36.6% 35.3% 16.7% 1.4% 0.8% 0.4% 0.9% 0.7% 23.6%
Total
Note. Reasonable suspicion subcategory percentages were calculated based on the number of individuals who were stopped for reasonable
suspicion (N = 205,493) per identity group (“Identity Group Total” column). Abbreviations for Reason for Stop left to right are: Officer Witness
Commiss Crime= Officer Witness Commission of a Crime, Match Susp Descr= Matched Suspect Description, Witness/Victim Identific=
Witness/Victim Identification.
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APPENDIX B – TRAFFIC VIOLATION CODE ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY
B.1 Traffic Violation Vehicle Code Section Tables
To capture the top five moving and non-moving/equipment violation codes officers reported under RIPA, we analyzed the top 30 codes for each
violation type and collapsed similar codes together. The following table provides information for the codes collapsed together and the associated
grouping name used for analysis.
B.1.1 Vehicle Code Section Groupings
Type of
Grouping Name Offense Code Statute Statute Name
Statute
54106 Vehicle Code 22350 UNSAFE SPEED:PREVAIL COND
54303 Vehicle Code 22349(A) EXCEED SPEED ON HIGHWAY
54134 Vehicle Code 22349 EXCESSIVE SPEED
54370 Vehicle Code 22356(B) EXCEED POSTED SPEED LIMIT
54395 Vehicle Code 22349(B) EXC 55MPH SPEED:2 LANE RD
Speeding
54212 Vehicle Code 22348(B) DRIVE IN EXCESS 100 MPH
54371 Vehicle Code 22406(A) TRUCK/ETC EXCEED 55 MPH
54532 Vehicle Code 22405(A) UNSAFE SPEED ON BRIDGE
54374 Vehicle Code 22407 TRUK/ETC XCEED POSTED MPH
54616 Vehicle Code 22406(B) EXCESS SPEED WHILE TOWING
54098 Vehicle Code 21453(A) FAIL STOP LINE/ETC AT RED
54373 Vehicle Code 21453(C) FAIL STOP LINE/ETC AT RED
Failure to Stop at Limit Line 54167 Vehicle Code 22450(A) FAIL STOP VEH:XWALK/ETC
54398 Vehicle Code 21950(A) FAIL YIELD TO PED:XWALKS
54122 Vehicle Code 21457(A) FAIL STOP:FLASH RED LIGHT
54655 Vehicle Code 23123.5(A) NO HND HLD DEVICE W/DRIVE
Cellphone Violation
54566 Vehicle Code 23123(A) USE CELLPH W/DRIV W/O HFD
54445 Vehicle Code 21651(A) DIV HWY:CROSS/U TURN VIOL
Unsafe Lane change/Turn 54422 Vehicle Code 22348(C) SPEC VEH:WRONG PASS LANE
54115 Vehicle Code 22107 UNSAF TURN &/OR NO SIGNAL
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54178 Vehicle Code 21658(A) UNSAFE LANE CHANGE/ETC
54181 Vehicle Code 21755 USE SHOLDER/ETC:PAS RIGHT
54186 Vehicle Code 22102 ILEGAL UTURN:BUS DIST/ETC
54220 Vehicle Code 22100(A) IMPROPER RIGHT HAND TURN
54372 Vehicle Code 21453(B) TURN ONTO ONEWAY AT RED
54114 Vehicle Code 21801(A) FT/YIELD BE4 LEFT/U-TURN
54319 Vehicle Code 22100(B) LEFT TURN INTERSECTN VIOL
54185 Vehicle Code 22101(D) FAIL TO OBEY TURN SIGNS
Failure to Obey Traffic Sign 54146 Vehicle Code 21461(A) DRIVER FAIL OBEY SIGN/ETC
54504 Vehicle Code 21655.5(B) FAIL OBEY TRAF LANE SIGN
54657 Vehicle Code 4000(A)(1) NO REG:VEH/TRAILER/ETC
No Registration 54099 Vehicle Code 4000(A) NO REG:VEH/TRAILER/ETC
54473 Vehicle Code 4000.4(A) UNREG CA BASED VEHICLE
54644 Vehicle Code 5200(A) DISPLAY LIC PLATES WRONG
54168 Vehicle Code 5204(A) EXPIRED TABS/FAIL DISPLAY
54211 Vehicle Code 5202 LICENSE PLATE DISPLAY VIO
Display Plates/Tags
54645 Vehicle Code 5200(B) DISPLY ONE LIC PLATE WRNG
54234 Vehicle Code 5201(A) LICENS PLATE POSITION VIO
54723 Vehicle Code 5201(D) OBSTRUCT OF LIC PLATE
54109 Vehicle Code 24252(A) FAIL MAINT VEH LITE EQUIP
54193 Vehicle Code 24600 TAILLAMP VIOLATIONS
54110 Vehicle Code 24601 FAIL MAINT LIC PLATE LAMP
Failure to Maintain Lighting
54014 Vehicle Code 24400 HEADLAMP:OPR/AMT/SIZE:VIO
Equipment
54480 Vehicle Code 38335 HEADLAMP VIOLATION
54144 Vehicle Code 24603(B) STOPLAMPS VIOL:SPEC VEH
54194 Vehicle Code 24603 STOPLAMP VIOLATIONS
54571 Vehicle Code 26708(A)(1) OPR VEH:WINDOW OBSTRUCTED
54614 Vehicle Code 26708(A)(2) OPR VEH:WINDOW OBSTRUCTED
Window Obstruction
54015 Vehicle Code 26709 WINDOW INSTAL/ETC MAT VIO
54138 Vehicle Code 26710 DEFECTIVE WINDSHIELD/ETC
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54358 Vehicle Code 34506 FT/COMPLY:INSPEC RULE/REG
Failure to Comply with Commercial
54120 Vehicle Code 2813 FAIL STOP:COMRCL VEH INSP
Vehicle Rule
54127 Vehicle Code 35551(A) VEH EXCEED WT LIMIT:2+AXL
65002 AA 65002 LOCAL ORDINANCE VIOL
Local Ordinance Violation
65000 AA 65000 LOCAL ORDINANCE VIOL
Bike Light Violation 54141 Vehicle Code 21201(D) BIKE HEADLIGHT/ETC VIOL
54537 Vehicle Code 22500(H) PARK UNLAW:DOUBLE PARKING
Parking Violation 54330 Vehicle Code 22500 PARKING/ETC VIO:SPEC CIRC
54663 Vehicle Code 22500 NO PARK/STOP ETC FIRE LN
B.1.2 Top Five Vehicle Code Sections Reported for Moving Violations (All Agencies)
The following table provides information for the top five Vehicle Code sections reported for moving violations across all agencies.
Type of Frequency
Grouping Name Offense Code Statute Statute Name
Statute (%)
253,490
54106 Vehicle Code 22350 UNSAFE SPEED:PREVAIL COND
(13.7%)
335,746
54303 Vehicle Code 22349(A) EXCEED SPEED ON HIGHWAY
(18.1%)
238,634
54134 Vehicle Code 22349 EXCESSIVE SPEED
(12.9%)
93,848
54370 Vehicle Code 22356(B) EXCEED POSTED SPEED LIMIT
(5.1%)
Speeding
87,284
54395 Vehicle Code 22349(B) EXC 55MPH SPEED:2 LANE RD
(4.7%)
36,523
54212 Vehicle Code 22348(B) DRIVE IN EXCESS 100 MPH
(2.0%)
29,156
54371 Vehicle Code 22406(A) TRUCK/ETC EXCEED 55 MPH
(1.6%)
1,074,681
Overall
(58.1%)
34,622
Failure to Stop at Limit Line 54098 Vehicle Code 21453(A) FAIL STOP LINE/ETC AT RED
(1.9%)
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85,004
54167 Vehicle Code 22450(A) FAIL STOP VEH:XWALK/ETC
(4.6%)
119,626
Overall
(6.5%)
10,739
54445 Vehicle Code 21651(A) DIV HWY:CROSS/U TURN VIOL
(0.6%)
13,910
54422 Vehicle Code 22348(C) SPEC VEH:WRONG PASS LANE
(0.8%)
44,901
Unsafe Lane change/Turn 54115 Vehicle Code 22107 UNSAF TURN &/OR NO SIGNAL
(2.4%)
45,695
54178 Vehicle Code 21658(A) UNSAFE LANE CHANGE/ETC
(2.5%)
115,245
Overall
(6.2 %)
47,996
54655 Vehicle Code 23123.5(A) NO HND HLD DEVICE W/DRIVE
(2.6%)
29,578
Cellphone Violation 54566 Vehicle Code 23123(A) USE CELLPH W/DRIV W/O HFD
(1.6%)
77,574
Overall
(4.2%)
18,341
54185 Vehicle Code 22101(D) FAIL TO OBEY TURN SIGNS
(1.0%)
54146 Vehicle Code 21461(A) DRIVER FAIL OBEY SIGN/ETC
37,898
(2.1%)
Failure to Obey Traffic Sign
12,076
54504 Vehicle Code 21655.5(B) FAIL OBEY TRAF LANE SIGN
(0.7%)
68,315
Overall
(3.7%)
B.1.3 Top Five Vehicle Code Sections Reported for Non-Moving/Equipment Violations (All Agencies)
The following table provides information for the top five Vehicle Code sections reported for non-moving/equipment violations across all agencies.
Type of Frequency
Grouping Name Offense Code Statute Statute Name
Statute (%)
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113,829
54657 Vehicle Code 4000(A)(1) NO REG:VEH/TRAILER/ETC
(16.8%)
48,140
No Registration 54099 Vehicle Code 4000(A) NO REG:VEH/TRAILER/ETC
(7.1%)
161,969
Overall
(23.9%)
86,803
54644 Vehicle Code 5200(A) DISPLAY LIC PLATES WRONG
(12.8%)
29,647
54168 Vehicle Code 5204(A) EXPIRED TABS/FAIL DISPLAY
(4.4%)
7,237
54211 Vehicle Code 5202 LICENSE PLATE DISPLAY VIO
(1.1%)
Display Plates/Tags
3,816
54645 Vehicle Code 5200(B) DISPLY ONE LIC PLATE WRNG
(0.6%)
2,856
54234 Vehicle Code 5201(A) LICENS PLATE POSITION VIO
(0.4%)
130,359
Overall
(19.2%)
39,864
54109 Vehicle Code 24252(A) FAIL MAINT VEH LITE EQUIP
(5.9%)
8,467
54193 Vehicle Code 24600 TAILLAMP VIOLATIONS
(1.3%)
Failure to Maintain Lighting 8,172
54110 Vehicle Code 24601 FAIL MAINT LIC PLATE LAMP
Equipment (1.2%)
6,269
54014 Vehicle Code 24400 HEADLAMP:OPR/AMT/SIZE:VIO
(0.9%)
62,772
Overall
(9.3%)
48,710
54571 Vehicle Code 26708(A)(1) OPR VEH:WINDOW OBSTRUCTED
(7.2%)
2,798
Window Obstruction 54614 Vehicle Code 26708(A)(2) OPR VEH:WINDOW OBSTRUCTED
(0.4%)
4,262
54138 Vehicle Code 26710 DEFECTIVE WINDSHIELD/ETC
(0.6%)
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55,770
Overall
(8.2%)
27,661
54655 Vehicle Code 23123.5(A) NO HND HLD DEVICE W/DRIVE
(4.1%)
14,063
Cellphone Violation 54566 Vehicle Code 23123(A) USE CELLPH W/DRIV W/O HFD
(2.1%)
41,724
Overall
(6.2%)
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APPENDIX C – DISPARITY TEST METHODS
C.1 Residential Population Comparison Analysis Methodology
Considerations and limitations. There are a number of known limitations associated with using
residential data to benchmark stop data. Residential population is a proxy for the set of people
who may be stopped by officers. However, individuals may be stopped outside of their
residential area (e.g. commuting to work, tourists). The rate of these “commuter” stops likely
varies from agency to agency, but RIPA stop data do not include information on where stopped
individuals reside to account for this issue. Additionally, agencies may concentrate their patrol
efforts in certain areas and, thus, may not have an equal likelihood of encountering residents
throughout all areas in their jurisdiction. There are also concerns with response bias in
compiling information derived from residential surveys, such as the census; some groups are
more difficult to count, and thus may be underestimated in official data.
In addition to general concerns with residential population benchmarking, there are also several
limitations that are unique to comparing RIPA Stop Data to American Community Survey (ACS)
data. First, 2020 ACS data were not available through Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
(IPUMS) at the time this report was written.1 The 2020 RIPA Stop Data demographics were
instead compared to the 2019 ACS demographics. Moreover, RIPA Stop Data regulations and
the ACS categorize racial/ethnic groups differently.2 ACS data have racial/ethnic groups that are
not explicitly captured by RIPA regulations. These individuals within the ACS have been
collectively grouped together in an “Other” category that does not have a match in RIPA
regulations.
Finally, the source of race/ethnicity information for each dataset is collected differently.
Race/ethnicity is recorded for RIPA based on officer’s perception while ACS respondents self-
identify. This distinction represents a key difference in objectives between the two databases.
The purpose of RIPA is to eliminate racial and identity profiling, a practice that is based on how
officers perceive the individuals they stop. RIPA data are intended to facilitate the
implementation of policies that will achieve this purpose. On the other hand, the objective of the
ACS is to provide a representation of information regarding community residents. Thus,
comparisons between these datasets operate under the assumption that officers’ perceptions often
agree with how an individual self identifies.
Statistical Analysis. Stop demographics for each police or sheriff’s department were compared
to their primary city or county of service, respectively. 3 For example, the racial/ethnic
distribution of individuals stopped by San Francisco Police Department was compared to the
racial/ethnic distribution of San Francisco city residents in the ACS data. There are two
exceptions, the first being for California Highway Patrol, which was compared to the state
population. Second, the Los Angeles United School District Police Department was not included
1 For information about IPUMS, please visit <https://www.ipums.org/> [as of Dec. 2, 2021].
2 For example, RIPA regulations explicitly include Israeli individuals in the Middle Eastern/South Asian
group, but the ACS does not have an Israeli category.
3 These comparisons are approximate since agency jurisdictions do not always map perfectly to the
boundaries of their primary city or county of service.
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in the residential comparison analysis since their agency’s jurisdiction is not as clearly defined as
the jurisdiction of municipal police departments.
In previous RIPA reports, one year estimates captured in the ACS data were used for residential
comparisons. However, one year estimates only provide data for populations of 65,000 or more.
As smaller agencies have begun submitting RIPA data, it was necessary to start using the five
year ACS estimates in order to capture residential population data for these areas. Five year
ACS estimates provide population data for all areas, no matter the size of the population served.
However, unlike the one year estimates, the five year ACS estimates do not provide racial and
ethnicity categorizations that are specific enough to create a comparable grouping to serve as a
benchmark for the Middle Eastern/South Asian racial/ethnic group captured in RIPA. The
following table provides information for the racial/ethnic categories used from the ACS data and
the associated RIPA racial/ethnic group for which comparisons were made against.
C.1.1 Census Table B03002
ACS
RIPA Racial/Ethnic
Variable ACS Variable Label
Comparison Group
Name
B03002_003 Not Hispanic or Latino: White alone White
B03002_004 Not Hispanic or Latino :Black or African
Black
American alone
B03002_005 Not Hispanic or Latino: American Indian and
Native American
Alaska Native alone
B03002_006 Not Hispanic or Latino: Asian alone Asian
B03002_007 Not Hispanic or Latino: Native Hawaiian and
Pacific Islander
Other Pacific Islander alone
B03002_008 Not Hispanic or Latino: Some other race alone N/A
Multiracial
B03002_009 Not Hispanic or Latino: Two or more races Multiracial
B03002_019 Hispanic or Latino: Two or more races
Hispanic/Latino
B03002_013 Hispanic or Latino: White alone
B03002_014 Hispanic or Latino: Black or African American
alone
B03002_015 Hispanic or Latino: American Indian and Alaska
Native alone Hispanic/Latino
B03002_016 Hispanic or Latino: Asian alone
B03002_017 Hispanic or Latino: Native Hawaiian and Other
Pacific Islander alone
B03002_018 Hispanic or Latino: Some other race alone
Benchmarking using residential population data involves comparing the distribution of
racial/ethnic groups stopped by law enforcement to the distribution of residents in the areas
serviced by agencies who submitted data in 2020. However, it is important to note that not all
jurisdictions within the state collected RIPA data in 2020. Given that RIPA data were only
collected in some areas of the state in 2020, presenting the overall state residential population as
a benchmark would include far more people in the comparison distribution than were likely to
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have contact with the 18 agencies that collected data in 2020. To help address this issue by
creating a comparison distribution intended to be more reflective of just the areas served by the
agencies that collected RIPA data in 2020, the overall ACS benchmark was calculated using a
series of weights. First, the distribution of racial/ethnic groups within each agency’s
approximate jurisdiction were calculated using each group’s mean proportion weighted by the
person-weight variable reported in the ACS. These values were then multiplied by the number
of stop records submitted by the respective agency (i.e. agency weights) and each racial/ethnic
group’s values from all agencies were summed together.4 Each racial/ethnic group’s aggregate
was then divided by the sum of all racial/ethnic aggregates in order to generate the final
residential population benchmark for the overall comparisons.
C.2 Analysis Methodology
Considerations and limitations. Discovery rate analyses avoid some of the issues associated
with other methods because they do not require the stop data to be compared to external
information (e.g. residential population data). However, discovery rate analyses also rely on
assumptions about the behavior of individuals in different identity groups. Disparate treatment
between racial/ethnic groups is identified when search and discovery rates are opposed (e.g.
Black individuals have high search rates but low discovery rates).5 When these statistics do not
move in opposite directions, it is more difficult to determine whether disparate treatment is
present. It is also possible that there are observable factors that could influence an officer’s
decision to search someone that are not captured by RIPA Stop Data. The effectiveness in
predicting the presence of contraband based on certain suspicious behaviors may also vary
between racial/ethnic groups.6 Finally, the strength of the assumptions for discovery rate
analyses may vary depending on the type of search being conducted. For example, consent
searches include all searches where the only basis included was consent given. Thus, these
searches do not include an element of probable cause, which may impact the assumptions
underlying their analysis and results.
Statistical Analysis. The discovery rate analysis was conducted in three steps. First, linear
probability models were used to test whether there were differences in search rates between
White individuals and each racial/ethnic group of color independently. Second, similar analyses
were used to test for differences in contraband or evidence discovery rates during stops with
discretionary searches. Discretionary searches exclude those where at least one of the search
bases was either incident to arrest, search warrant, or vehicle inventory. Third, similar analyses
were used to test for differences in contraband or evidence discovery rates during stops with
administrative searches. Administrative searches only include those where at least one of the
search bases was either incident to arrest, search warrant, or vehicle inventory. Each of these
4 The agency-level comparisons in Table D.1 of Appendix D do not employ weights to account for the
number of stop records submitted by each agency, given that these comparisons examine the data of each
agency separately.
5 See Anwar and Fang, An Alternative Test of Racial Prejudice in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and
Evidence (2006) Am. Econ. Rev. 96(1)
<https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/000282806776157579>.
6 See Simoui et al., The Problem of Infra-Marginality in Outcome Tests for Discrimination (2017) Ann.
Appl. Stat. 11(3) <https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.05376.>
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analyses were applied to all agencies combined, all municipal agencies combined (excluding
California Highway Patrol), and for each individual agency.7 Both sets of analyses included the
following considerations:
1. The 4 racial/ethnic groups who were stopped least frequently were aggregated into a
single category to increase statistical power. These groups include Middle
Eastern/South Asian, Multiracial, Native American, and Pacific Islander individuals.
2. A set of high dimensional fixed effects were included in the analysis as controls,
including gender, age, hour of the day, day of the week, month of the year, and the
officer conducting the stop.
3. The standard errors were clustered at the officer level to better allow for unobserved
correlations between stops made by the same officers.
Using these criteria, we estimated the effect of an individual (i) belonging to a racial/ethnic
group of color (m) on a resulting binary search or contraband/evidence discovery outcome (j)
with the aforementioned controls (…) using the following specification:
+ …
Given the Board’s interest in furth𝑂𝑂e𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂ri𝑂𝑂n𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂g𝑂𝑂 i𝑂𝑂t𝑂𝑂s𝑂𝑂 𝑂𝑂u𝑂𝑂n𝑂𝑂d𝑂𝑂 𝑗𝑗e𝑗𝑗,𝑖𝑖 r=s t𝛽𝛽a𝛽𝛽n𝑗𝑗𝑗𝑗,0d +in 𝛽𝛽g𝛽𝛽 𝑗𝑗 𝑗𝑗,o1 𝑂𝑂f𝑂𝑂 𝑖𝑖s𝑖𝑖 tops involving supervision searches
and the impact of an individual’s perceived race/ethnicity, the discovery rate analysis was also
repeated for stops in which a search was conducted as a condition of supervision.
7 Los Angeles United School District and Fresno PD’s discovery rates for discretionary and
administrative searches were not able to be analyzed individually due to insufficient sample sizes for
inclusion in the model. The Department is currently discussing future approaches that aggregate these
agencies’ stop data over several years to provide sufficient sample sizes for analysis.
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C.3 Veil of Darkness (VOD) Analysis Methodology
Considerations and limitations. As with any statistical approach, VOD is dependent upon a
series of assumptions. The foremost assumption is that darkness should make it more difficult
for police to perceive the race/ethnicity of individuals before they stop them. While this
assumption is likely to hold true generally, it may not equally apply to all stops. For example,
artificial lighting (e.g. streetlights) can help officers perceive race/ethnicity in the dark and it
varies from one patrol area to the next. The types of violations that officers witness may also
vary with visibility, as would be the case for having a headlight out. The propensity to commit
these types of violations may be best explained by economic or other concerns (e.g. seasonality)
that—depending on the area—may correlate with race/ethnicity.8 But even while race/ethnicity
may be more difficult to perceive in the dark, officers could still use observable proxies (e.g.
vehicle type, stop location) to guess the identity of drivers before stopping them. These concerns
may cause drivers of some identity groups to change their own driving behavior to mitigate their
perceived risk of being profiled and stopped.9 Finally, VOD is also an analysis best fit for
vehicle stop data as identity is less likely to be masked during pedestrian stops in intertwilight
hours, but RIPA does not explicitly differentiate vehicle stops from pedestrian stops; the best
proxy in RIPA data is all stops made for traffic violations.
Data collection. VOD relies on precise measures of the intertwilight period, which vary from
location to location. Officers record location information using open text fields. These text
fields were submitted to the Google Geolocation API to return the corresponding latitude and
longitude. Given the unstructured nature of the open text fields, the API sometimes returned
several potential coordinate matches for one record, including some coordinates that fell outside
the state of California. For these records, their coordinates were instead replaced with those of
their respective geographical areas (e.g. cities, unincorporated areas). Once geolocation data had
been generated for all records, the data were analyzed using the suncalc package in R to calculate
the following time values for each stop record:
• Sunrise
• Sunset
• Daily beginning civil twilight
• Daily end of civil twilight
• Earliest instance of morning civil twilight across the entire year
• Latest instance of morning civil twilight across the entire year
• Earliest instance of evening civil twilight across the entire year
• Latest instance of evening civil twilight across the entire year
8 See Ritter, How do Police Use Race in Traffic Stops and Searches? Tests Based on Observability of
Race (2017) J Econ. Behav. & Org. 135 <https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jeborg/v135y2017icp82-98.html>.
9 See Kalinowski and Ross et al., Endogenous Driving behavior in Veil of Darkness Tests for Racial
Profiling (2017) Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group
<https://hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/working-paper/endogenous-driving-behavior-tests-racial-
profiling-police-traffic-stops>.
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Statistical analysis. The VOD was analyzed using linear probability models to test whether
darkness (i.e. absence of daylight) impacted the race/ethnicity of individuals who were stopped
by law enforcement. The analysis included the following considerations:
1. Stops were limited to those occurring within either the morning or evening intertwilight
periods. These periods were generated for each stop record using each respective
location’s earliest and latest times of civil twilight across the year.
2. Stops made between the start of civil twilight and sunrise were excluded from the
morning intertwilight period while stops between sunset and the end of civil twilight
were excluded from the evening intertwilight period. These short windows of time
represent neither daylight nor nighttime and were removed to improve the contrast in
lighting conditions between the light and dark stop groups.
3. Stops made after sunrise or before sunset were considered daylight stops while those
made during nautical twilight were defined as occurring after dark.
4. Stops were limited to those made for traffic violations and those that were not initiated in
response to a call for service. These criteria work to define stops that best fit the
assumptions of the VOD hypothesis, which is based on officer discretion in initiating
stops with motorists.
5. The 4 racial/ethnic groups who were stopped least frequently were aggregated into a
single category to increase statistical power. These groups include Middle Eastern/South
Asian, Multiracial, Native American, and Pacific Islander individuals.
6. A set of high dimensional fixed effects were added to the analysis as controls, including
time of the day, day of the week, month of the year, and the officer conducting the stop.
Times were grouped into 15-minute intervals that began with the start of each
intertwilight period (e.g. morning, evening).
7. The standard errors were clustered at the officer level to account for unobserved
correlations between stops made by the same officers.
We estimated the effect of an individual (i) being stopped in darkness (d) on their likelihood of
belonging to a racial/ethnic group of color (m) with the aforementioned controls (…) using the
following specification:
𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚,𝑖𝑖 𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚,0 𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚,1 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖
Each racial/ethnic group of c𝑅𝑅o𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅l𝑅𝑅o𝑂𝑂r𝑂𝑂 𝑂𝑂w𝑂𝑂/𝐸𝐸a𝐸𝐸s𝑂𝑂 𝑂𝑂iℎn𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛d𝑛𝑛e𝑛𝑛𝑂𝑂p𝑂𝑂e𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛n𝑂𝑂d𝑂𝑂𝑛𝑛e𝑛𝑛ntly= c𝛽𝛽𝛽𝛽omp+a 𝛽𝛽r𝛽𝛽ed 𝑑𝑑t𝑑𝑑o +W ⋯h ite individuals. Thus, an
analysis comparing White to Black individuals, for example, would only include data for these
two groups.
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C.4 Use of Force Analysis Methodology
Considerations and limitations. This analysis tests for equality of outcomes in the rates of force
used during stops. Please note that RIPA does not contain variables that may help explain the
context surrounding the decisions to use force. Thus, it is impossible to tell from the data why
force was used; the data can only be used to show when force was used.
Statistical Analysis. Logistic regressions were used to test whether there were differences in use
of force rates between White individuals and each racial/ethnic group of color independently. A
stop was considered to include force when at least one of the following actions were taken by
officers:
• Removal from vehicle by physical contact
• Other physical or vehicle contact
• Electronic control devices
• Impact projectiles (e.g. rubber bullets)
• Canine bites and holds
• Baton or other impact weapon
• Firearm pointed at person
• Chemical spray
• Discharge of a firearm
These analyses were applied to all agencies combined, all municipal agencies combined
(excluding California Highway Patrol), and for each individual agency.10 Both sets of analyses
included the following considerations:
1. Only records where actions were taken during stop—regardless of whether they
involved force—were included in the analysis.
2. The 4 racial/ethnic groups who were stopped least frequently were aggregated into a
single category to increase statistical power. These groups include Middle
Eastern/South Asian, Multiracial, Native American, and Pacific Islander individuals.
3. A set of high dimensional fixed effects were included in the analysis as controls,
including gender, age, hour of the day, day of the week, month of the year, and the
officer conducting the stop.
4. The standard errors were clustered at the officer level to account for unobserved
correlations between stops made by the same officers.
10 The Los Angeles United School District PD and Fresno PD’s stops involving use of force were not able
to be analyzed individually due to insufficient sample sizes for inclusion in the model. The Department is
currently discussing future approaches that aggregate these agencies stop data over several years that
would provide sufficient sample sizes for analysis.
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Using these criteria, we estimated the effect of an individual (i) belonging to a racial/ethnic
group of color (m) on a resulting binary use of force outcome (j) with the aforementioned
controls (…) using the following specification:
+ …
𝑗𝑗𝑗𝑗,𝑖𝑖 𝑗𝑗𝑗𝑗,0 𝑗𝑗𝑗𝑗,1 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖
𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂 = 𝛽𝛽𝛽𝛽 + 𝛽𝛽𝛽𝛽 𝑂𝑂𝑂𝑂
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APPENDIX D – DISPARITY TEST TABLES
D.1 Residential Population Comparison Tables
D.1.1 Residential Population Comparison to All Stops
RIPA Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Asian 5.17% 13.98% -8.81% -63.02% 0.37 0.41
Black 16.49% 6.56% 9.93% 151.52% 2.52 2.79
Hispanic 40.42% 38.6% 1.82% 4.71% 1.05 1.16
Middle Eastern/South
4.66%
Asian
Overall
Multiracial 0.88% 4.77% -3.89% -81.6% 0.18 0.2
Native American 0.21% 0.31% -0.1% -32.3% 0.68 0.75
Other 0.28%
Pacific Islander 0.52% 0.35% 0.17% 50.41% 1.5 1.67
White 31.66% 35.16% -3.51% -9.97% 0.9
Asian 4.21% 13.56% -9.35% -68.92% 0.31 0.37
Black 23.06% 7.97% 15.09% 189.37% 2.89 3.42
Hispanic 40.53% 40.59% -0.07% -0.16% 1 1.18
Middle Eastern/South
3.14%
Municipal Asian
Multiracial 0.98% 4.59% -3.62% -78.73% 0.21 0.25
Native American 0.17% 0.24% -0.07% -28.37% 0.72 0.85
Other 0.31%
Pacific Islander 0.47% 0.33% 0.14% 43.61% 1.44 1.7
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RIPA Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
White 27.44% 32.41% -4.97% -15.33% 0.85
Asian 1.36% 7.29% -5.92% -81.29% 0.19 0.17
Black 16.74% 7.23% 9.5% 131.4% 2.31 2.14
Hispanic 43.94% 48.57% -4.63% -9.54% 0.9 0.84
Middle Eastern/South
2.02%
Asian
Bakersfield PD
Multiracial 0.44% 3.78% -3.33% -88.25% 0.12 0.11
Native American 0.11% 0.25% -0.15% -57.77% 0.42 0.39
Other 0.17%
Pacific Islander 0.17% 0.19% -0.01% -7.76% 0.92 0.85
White 35.22% 32.52% 2.7% 8.3% 1.08
Asian 5.87% 14.28% -8.42% -58.92% 0.41 0.44
Black 11.68% 5.52% 6.16% 111.57% 2.12 2.26
Hispanic 40.34% 37.15% 3.19% 8.6% 1.09 1.16
Middle Eastern/South
5.77%
California Asian
Highway Patrol Multiracial 0.8% 4.89% -4.09% -83.57% 0.16 0.18
Native American 0.24% 0.36% -0.12% -34.19% 0.66 0.7
Other 0.25%
Pacific Islander 0.56% 0.36% 0.2% 54.98% 1.55 1.66
White 34.74% 37.18% -2.44% -6.55% 0.93
Asian 9.27% 22.68% -13.41% -59.13% 0.41 0.46
Davis PD Black 11.54% 2.07% 9.47% 457.03% 5.57 6.25
Hispanic 22.55% 12.26% 10.3% 84.01% 1.84 2.06
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RIPA Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Middle Eastern/South
3.90%
Asian
Multiracial 2.95% 6.41% -3.46% -53.98% 0.46 0.52
Native American 0.19% 0.4% -0.21% -52.5% 0.47 0.53
Other 0.38%
Pacific Islander 0.15% 0.31% -0.16% -51.75% 0.48 0.54
White 49.45% 55.48% -6.03% -10.87% 0.89
Asian 4.38% 13.44% -9.05% -67.38% 0.33 0.34
Black 13.49% 7.04% 6.45% 91.51% 1.92 1.98
Hispanic 51.71% 47.61% 4.1% 8.61% 1.09 1.12
Middle Eastern/South
3.77%
Asian
Fresno PD
Multiracial 0.23% 4.23% -3.99% -94.54% 0.05 0.06
Native American 0.19% 0.48% -0.29% -60.45% 0.4 0.41
Other 0.17%
Pacific Islander 0.14% 0.1% 0.04% 44.14% 1.44 1.49
White 26.08% 26.93% -0.85% -3.15% 0.97
Asian 5.24% 12.84% -7.6% -59.22% 0.41 0.52
Black 28.25% 12.21% 16.04% 131.39% 2.31 2.94
Hispanic 37.8% 40.73% -2.94% -7.21% 0.93 1.18
Long Beach PD Middle Eastern/South
1.39%
Asian
Multiracial 4.02% 4.66% -0.64% -13.79% 0.86 1.09
Native American 0.13% 0.33% -0.2% -59.65% 0.4 0.51
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RIPA Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Other 0.31%
Pacific Islander 0.98% 0.75% 0.23% 30.64% 1.31 1.66
White 22.2% 28.16% -5.97% -21.19% 0.79
Asian 6% 14.43% -8.43% -58.42% 0.42 0.46
Black 17.18% 7.84% 9.34% 119.19% 2.19 2.4
Hispanic 48.71% 46.76% 1.95% 4.16% 1.04 1.14
Middle Eastern/South
2.21%
Los Angeles CO Asian
SD Multiracial 1.43% 4.0% -2.57% -64.33% 0.36 0.39
Native American 0.05% 0.21% -0.16% -76.33% 0.24 0.26
Other 0.32%
Pacific Islander 0.5% 0.24% 0.26% 106.75% 2.07 2.26
White 23.93% 26.2% -2.27% -8.68% 0.91
Asian 3.2% 11.46% -8.27% -72.12% 0.28 0.47
Black 26.85% 8.61% 18.23% 211.62% 3.12 5.25
Hispanic 48.55% 47.02% 1.52% 3.24% 1.03 1.74
Middle Eastern/South
3.76%
Asian
Los Angeles PD
Multiracial 0.45% 3.75% -3.3% -87.9% 0.12 0.2
Native American 0.06% 0.16% -0.1% -60.02% 0.4 0.67
Other 0.37%
Pacific Islander 0.23% 0.13% 0.1% 75.03% 1.75 2.95
White 16.91% 28.48% -11.58% -40.65% 0.59
Asian 4.55% 15.34% -10.78% -70.3% 0.3 0.64
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RIPA Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Black 52.84% 23.23% 29.61% 127.48% 2.27 4.9
Hispanic 25.33% 24.99% 0.34% 1.35% 1.01 2.18
Middle Eastern/South
2.23%
Asian
Oakland PD Multiracial 0.92% 6.87% -5.95% -86.6% 0.13 0.29
Native American 0.13% 0.34% -0.21% -61.19% 0.39 0.84
Other 0.43%
Pacific Islander 0.85% 0.53% 0.33% 62.3% 1.62 3.49
White 13.14% 28.28% -15.14% -53.55% 0.46
Asian 6.31% 20.29% -13.99% -68.93% 0.31 0.26
Black 3.94% 1.62% 2.32% 143.57% 2.44 2.05
Hispanic 34.11% 32.73% 1.38% 4.21% 1.04 0.88
Middle Eastern/South
5.13%
Asian
Orange CO SO
Multiracial 0.54% 4.1% -3.56% -86.73% 0.13 0.11
Native American 1.15% 0.19% 0.96% 497.86% 5.98 5.03
Other 0.19%
Pacific Islander 0.52% 0.28% 0.24% 86.08% 1.86 1.56
White 48.29% 40.59% 7.7% 18.98% 1.19
Asian 3.21% 6.32% -3.11% -49.2% 0.51 0.49
Black 11.91% 6.1% 5.81% 95.16% 1.95 1.88
Riverside CO SO Hispanic 44.7% 46.91% -2.21% -4.72% 0.95 0.92
Middle Eastern/South
1.87%
Asian
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RIPA Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Multiracial 0.87% 4.41% -3.54% -80.23% 0.2 0.19
Native American 0.28% 0.43% -0.15% -34.73% 0.65 0.63
Other 0.25%
Pacific Islander 0.54% 0.27% 0.27% 100.42% 2 1.93
White 36.62% 35.32% 1.31% 3.7% 1.04
Asian 3.07% 15.44% -12.37% -80.12% 0.2 0.2
Black 31.22% 9.49% 21.73% 228.95% 3.29 3.31
Hispanic 16.57% 21.06% -4.49% -21.32% 0.79 0.79
Middle Eastern/South
2.37%
Asian
Sacramento CO SD
Multiracial 1.48% 7.47% -5.99% -80.2% 0.2 0.2
Native American 0.13% 0.36% -0.23% -63.09% 0.37 0.37
Other 0.33%
Pacific Islander 0.68% 1.12% -0.44% -38.99% 0.61 0.61
White 44.49% 44.72% -0.23% -0.52% 0.99
Asian 4.93% 18.59% -13.66% -73.49% 0.27 0.31
Black 42.23% 12.74% 29.49% 231.43% 3.31 3.93
Hispanic 20.79% 26.33% -5.54% -21.03% 0.79 0.94
Middle Eastern/South
2.25%
Sacramento PD Asian
Multiracial 1.65% 7.43% -5.79% -77.83% 0.22 0.26
Native American 0.11% 0.37% -0.26% -69.38% 0.31 0.36
Other 0.38%
Pacific Islander 0.68% 1.71% -1.04% -60.51% 0.39 0.47
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RIPA Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
White 27.35% 32.43% -5.08% -15.67% 0.84
Asian 3.1% 6.99% -3.89% -55.7% 0.44 0.35
Black 17.41% 7.88% 9.53% 120.9% 2.21 1.74
Hispanic 39.13% 50.81% -11.68% -22.99% 0.77 0.61
Middle Eastern/South
1.86%
San Bernardino CO Asian
SO Multiracial 1.71% 4.98% -3.27% -65.68% 0.34 0.27
Native American 0.21% 0.36% -0.15% -40.99% 0.59 0.47
Other 0.17%
Pacific Islander 0.43% 0.29% 0.14% 48.48% 1.48 1.17
White 36.17% 28.53% 7.64% 26.78% 1.27
Asian 3.46% 11.63% -8.17% -70.23% 0.3 0.27
Black 7.11% 4.71% 2.4% 51.03% 1.51 1.35
Hispanic 32.61% 31.91% 0.7% 2.2% 1.02 0.91
Middle Eastern/South
2.88%
Asian
San Diego CO SO
Multiracial 1.36% 5.24% -3.88% -74.1% 0.26 0.23
Native American 0.61% 0.38% 0.23% 60.91% 1.61 1.44
Other 0.2%
Pacific Islander 0.95% 0.38% 0.56% 146.58% 2.47 2.2
White 51.03% 45.56% 5.47% 12.0% 1.12
Asian 4.77% 16.42% -11.66% -70.97% 0.29 0.3
San Diego PD Black 20.25% 6.05% 14.21% 235.0% 3.35 3.52
Hispanic 29.65% 28.69% 0.96% 3.36% 1.03 1.09
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RIPA Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Middle Eastern/South
2.66%
Asian
Multiracial 0.98% 5.27% -4.29% -81.48% 0.19 0.19
Native American 0.21% 0.22% 0.0% -2.1% 0.98 1.03
Other 0.21%
Pacific Islander 0.75% 0.38% 0.36% 94.2% 1.94 2.04
White 40.73% 42.76% -2.03% -4.74% 0.95
Asian 10.0% 34.07% -24.07% -70.65% 0.29 0.35
Black 27.0% 5.0% 22.0% 439.58% 5.4 6.36
Hispanic 19.55% 13.91% 5.64% 40.52% 1.41 1.66
Middle Eastern/South
5.32%
Asian
San Francisco PD
Multiracial 2.17% 5.57% -3.39% -60.97% 0.39 0.46
Native American 0.2% 0.19% 0.01% 6.78% 1.07 1.26
Other 0.41%
Pacific Islander 1.38% 0.34% 1.04% 310.85% 4.11 4.84
White 34.38% 40.51% -6.13% -15.14% 0.85
Asian 13.65% 35.7% -22.05% -61.77% 0.38 0.46
Black 7.77% 2.83% 4.94% 174.2% 2.74 3.33
Hispanic 49.99% 29.48% 20.5% 69.55% 1.7 2.06
San Jose PD Middle Eastern/South 4.90
Asian %
Multiracial 1.7% 5.35% -3.64% -68.18% 0.32 0.39
Native American 0.12% 0.18% -0.06% -34.65% 0.65 0.79
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RIPA Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Other 0.34%
Pacific Islander 0.71% 0.4% 0.31% 78.54% 1.79 2.17
White 21.16% 25.73% -4.56% -17.73% 0.82
Notes. 2020 RIPA stop data were compared to 2019 residential population data from the American Community Survey (ACS). For a full
description of the methodology, please see Appendix C.1. “Overall” refers to all agencies combined while “Municipal” excludes California
Highway Patrol. E(m)/E(w); disparity index for minority group of color (m) divided by the value for White individuals (w).
D.1.2 Residential Population Comparison to Calls for Service Stops
RIPA Calls for Service Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Asian 2.87% 14.86% -11.98% -80.67% 0.19 0.21
Black 27.27% 8.75% 18.52% 211.77% 3.12 3.31
Hispanic 34.29% 36.73% -2.44% -6.65% 0.93 0.99
Middle Eastern/South
Overall 2.06%
Asian
Multiracial 1.07% 5.03% -3.97% -78.80% 0.21 0.22
Native American 0.22% 0.26% -0.03% -13.58% 0.86 0.92
Other 0.32%
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RIPA Calls for Service Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Pacific Islander 0.54% 0.43% 0.10% 24.24% 1.24 1.32
White 31.69% 33.62% -1.93% -5.75% 0.94
Asian 2.85% 14.90% -12.05% -80.84% 0.19 0.21
Black 28.58% 9.00% 19.58% 217.48% 3.17 3.42
Hispanic 33.86% 36.69% -2.83% -7.72% 0.92 0.99
Middle Eastern/South
1.95%
Asian
Municipal
Multiracial 1.09% 5.04% -3.96% -78.49% 0.22 0.23
Native American 0.19% 0.25% -0.06% -22.55% 0.77 0.83
Other 0.33%
Pacific Islander 0.54% 0.44% 0.10% 23.91% 1.24 1.34
White 30.93% 33.34% -2.41% -7.23% 0.93
Asian 0.78% 7.29% -6.51% -89.29% 0.11 0.09
Black 19.68% 7.23% 12.44% 172.05% 2.72 2.32
Hispanic 39.21% 48.57% -9.36% -19.27% 0.81 0.69
Middle Eastern/South
1.10%
Asian
Bakersfield PD
Multiracial 0.66% 3.78% -3.12% -82.57% 0.17 0.15
Native American 0.15% 0.25% -0.11% -42.16% 0.58 0.49
Other 0.17%
Pacific Islander 0.24% 0.19% 0.06% 30.34% 1.3 1.11
White 38.19% 32.52% 5.67% 17.42% 1.17
Asian 3.08% 14.28% -11.20% -78.41% 0.22 0.19
Black 10.7% 5.52% 5.17% 93.72% 1.94 1.74
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RIPA Calls for Service Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Hispanic 39.69% 37.15% 2.54% 6.83% 1.07 0.96
Middle Eastern/South
3.35%
Asian
California Multiracial 0.84% 4.89% -4.06% -82.86% 0.17 0.15
Highway Patrol Native American 0.59% 0.36% 0.23% 64.9% 1.65 1.48
Other 0.25%
Pacific Islander 0.46% 0.36% 0.10% 29.28% 1.29 1.16
White 41.29% 37.18% 4.11% 11.06% 1.11
Asian 5.69% 22.68% -16.99% -74.92% 0.25 0.26
Black 13.65% 2.07% 11.58% 559.06% 6.59 6.89
Hispanic 22.25% 12.26% 10.00% 81.56% 1.82 1.9
Middle Eastern/South
2.15%
Asian
Davis PD
Multiracial 2.53% 6.41% -3.89% -60.58% 0.39 0.41
Native American 0.38% 0.40% -0.02% -4.78% 0.95 0.99
Other 0.38%
Pacific Islander 0.25% 0.31% -0.06% -19.39% 0.81 0.84
White 53.1% 55.48% -2.38% -4.30% 0.96
Asian 3.62% 13.44% -9.82% -73.08% 0.27 0.28
Black 19.22% 7.04% 12.17% 172.83% 2.73 2.79
Hispanic 48.0% 47.61% 0.39% 0.82% 1.01 1.03
Fresno PD
Middle Eastern/South
1.96%
Asian
Multiracial 0.30% 4.23% -3.92% -92.87% 0.07 0.07
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RIPA Calls for Service Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Native American 0.45% 0.48% -0.03% -5.88% 0.94 0.96
Other 0.17%
Pacific Islander 0.15% 0.10% 0.05% 52.46% 1.52 1.56
White 26.3% 26.93% -0.63% -2.34% 0.98
Asian 2.77% 12.84% -10.07% -78.45% 0.22 0.24
Black 33.76% 12.21% 21.55% 176.52% 2.77 3.09
Hispanic 34.08% 40.73% -6.65% -16.33% 0.84 0.93
Middle Eastern/South
0.64%
Asian
Long Beach PD
Multiracial 2.13% 4.66% -2.54% -54.44% 0.46 0.51
Native American 0.32% 0.33% -0.01% -3.15% 0.97 1.08
Other 0.31%
Pacific Islander 1.08% 0.75% 0.34% 44.88% 1.45 1.62
White 25.22% 28.16% -2.94% -10.45% 0.9
Asian 2.24% 14.43% -12.19% -84.51% 0.15 0.18
Black 27.66% 7.84% 19.82% 252.86% 3.53 4.09
Hispanic 43.26% 46.76% -3.50% -7.49% 0.93 1.07
Middle Eastern/South
1.02%
Los Angeles CO Asian
SD Multiracial 2.86% 4.00% -1.13% -28.35% 0.72 0.83
Native American 0.10% 0.21% -0.10% -50.82% 0.49 0.57
Other 0.32%
Pacific Islander 0.27% 0.24% 0.03% 11.08% 1.11 1.29
White 22.59% 26.2% -3.61% -13.77% 0.86
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RIPA Calls for Service Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Asian 2.26% 11.46% -9.20% -80.30% 0.2 0.27
Black 27.72% 8.61% 19.11% 221.79% 3.22 4.4
Hispanic 45.97% 47.02% -1.06% -2.24% 0.98 1.34
Middle Eastern/South
2.42%
Asian
Los Angeles PD
Multiracial 0.48% 3.75% -3.27% -87.16% 0.13 0.18
Native American 0.10% 0.16% -0.06% -39.21% 0.61 0.83
Other 0.37%
Pacific Islander 0.24% 0.13% 0.11% 85.33% 1.85 2.54
White 20.81% 28.48% -7.67% -26.94% 0.73
Asian 3.75% 15.34% -11.59% -75.55% 0.24 0.46
Black 54.16% 23.23% 30.94% 133.17% 2.33 4.41
Hispanic 23.54% 24.99% -1.45% -5.80% 0.94 1.78
Middle Eastern/South
1.52%
Asian
Oakland PD
Multiracial 1.09% 6.87% -5.77% -84.06% 0.16 0.3
Native American 0.17% 0.34% -0.17% -49.67% 0.5 0.95
Other 0.43%
Pacific Islander 0.79% 0.53% 0.26% 50.21% 1.5 2.84
White 14.97% 28.28% -13.31% -47.08% 0.53
Asian 3.28% 20.29% -17.02% -83.85% 0.16 0.12
Orange CO SO Black 5.36% 1.62% 3.74% 230.94% 3.31 2.45
Hispanic 33.09% 32.73% 0.36% 1.11% 1.01 0.75
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RIPA Calls for Service Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Middle Eastern/South
2.48%
Asian
Multiracial 0.56% 4.10% -3.54% -86.36% 0.14 0.1
Native American 0.16% 0.19% -0.03% -17.19% 0.83 0.61
Other 0.19%
Pacific Islander 0.32% 0.28% 0.04% 13.46% 1.13 0.84
White 54.76% 40.59% 14.17% 34.91% 1.35
Asian 1.98% 6.32% -4.33% -68.6% 0.31 0.29
Black 15.99% 6.10% 9.88% 161.96% 2.62 2.38
Hispanic 40.48% 46.91% -6.43% -13.70% 0.86 0.78
Middle Eastern/South
0.95%
Asian
Riverside CO SO
Multiracial 0.69% 4.41% -3.72% -84.42% 0.16 0.14
Native American 0.53% 0.43% 0.10% 24.31% 1.24 1.13
Other 0.25%
Pacific Islander 0.46% 0.27% 0.19% 70.62% 1.71 1.55
White 38.92% 35.32% 3.60% 10.18% 1.1
Asian 2.25% 15.44% -13.19% -85.43% 0.15 0.13
Black 29.25% 9.49% 19.76% 208.22% 3.08 2.72
Hispanic 14.07% 21.06% -6.99% -33.19% 0.67 0.59
Sacramento CO SD Middle Eastern/South
1.74%
Asian
Multiracial 1.19% 7.47% -6.28% -84.14% 0.16 0.14
Native American 0.16% 0.36% -0.21% -57.07% 0.43 0.38
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RIPA Calls for Service Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Other 0.33%
Pacific Islander 0.64% 1.12% -0.48% -42.90% 0.57 0.5
White 50.7% 44.72% 5.98% 13.37% 1.13
Asian 4.27% 18.59% -14.33% -77.06% 0.23 0.22
Black 39.92% 12.74% 27.18% 213.32% 3.13 3.01
Hispanic 17.54% 26.33% -8.79% -33.39% 0.67 0.64
Middle Eastern/South
1.94%
Asian
Sacramento PD
Multiracial 1.59% 7.43% -5.84% -78.57% 0.21 0.21
Native American 0.18% 0.37% -0.19% -50.71% 0.49 0.47
Other 0.38%
Pacific Islander 0.84% 1.71% -0.88% -51.21% 0.49 0.47
White 33.72% 32.43% 1.28% 3.95% 1.04
Asian 1.71% 6.99% -5.28% -75.58% 0.24 0.19
Black 20.6% 7.88% 12.72% 161.47% 2.61 2
Hispanic 37.21% 50.81% -13.6% -26.76% 0.73 0.56
Middle Eastern/South
0.93%
San Bernardino CO Asian
SO Multiracial 1.5% 4.98% -3.47% -69.8% 0.3 0.23
Native American 0.26% 0.36% -0.10% -27.72% 0.72 0.55
Other 0.17%
Pacific Islander 0.40% 0.29% 0.11% 38.68% 1.39 1.06
White 37.39% 28.53% 8.86% 31.05% 1.31
Asian 2.0% 11.63% -9.63% -82.77% 0.17 0.15
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RIPA Calls for Service Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Black 9.31% 4.71% 4.61% 97.89% 1.98 1.67
Hispanic 30.37% 31.91% -1.54% -4.81% 0.95 0.8
Middle Eastern/South
1.44%
Asian
San Diego CO SO Multiracial 1.12% 5.24% -4.12% -78.54% 0.21 0.18
Native American 0.91% 0.38% 0.54% 142.95% 2.43 2.05
Other 0.20%
Pacific Islander 0.95% 0.38% 0.56% 146.89% 2.47 2.09
White 53.88% 45.56% 8.33% 18.27% 1.18
Asian 3.22% 16.42% -13.21% -80.41% 0.2 0.19
Black 22.73% 6.05% 16.68% 275.97% 3.76 3.65
Hispanic 25.93% 28.69% -2.76% -9.62% 0.9 0.88
Middle Eastern/South
1.91%
Asian
San Diego PD
Multiracial 1.04% 5.27% -4.23% -80.28% 0.2 0.19
Native American 0.26% 0.22% 0.05% 21.91% 1.22 1.18
Other 0.21%
Pacific Islander 0.88% 0.38% 0.49% 128.06% 2.28 2.21
White 44.03% 42.76% 1.28% 2.99% 1.03
Asian 5.42% 34.07% -28.65% -84.10% 0.16 0.18
Black 33.34% 5.0% 28.33% 566.21% 6.66 7.53
San Francisco PD Hispanic 19.18% 13.91% 5.27% 37.86% 1.38 1.56
Middle Eastern/South
2.30%
Asian
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RIPA Calls for Service Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Multiracial 2.27% 5.57% -3.30% -59.21% 0.41 0.46
Native American 0.36% 0.19% 0.18% 94.94% 1.95 2.2
Other 0.41%
Pacific Islander 1.3% 0.34% 0.96% 287.73% 3.88 4.38
White 35.83% 40.51% -4.67% -11.54% 0.88
Asian 7.81% 35.7% -27.89% -78.14% 0.22 0.22
Black 13.51% 2.83% 10.68% 376.65% 4.77 4.85
Hispanic 47.74% 29.48% 18.26% 61.92% 1.62 1.65
Middle Eastern/South
2.85%
Asian
San Jose PD
Multiracial 2.02% 5.35% -3.33% -62.20% 0.38 0.38
Native American 0.04% 0.18% -0.14% -77.82% 0.22 0.23
Other 0.34%
Pacific Islander 0.75% 0.40% 0.35% 88.87% 1.89 1.92
White 25.28% 25.73% -0.45% -1.74% 0.98
Notes. 2020 RIPA stop data were compared to 2019 residential population data from the American Community Survey (ACS). For a full
description of the methodology, please see Appendix C.1. “Overall” refers to all agencies combined while “Municipal” excludes California
Highway Patrol. E(m)/E(w); disparity index for minority group of color (m) divided by the value for White individuals (w).
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D.1.3 Residential Population Comparison to Officer-Initiated Stops
RIPA Officer-Initiated Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Asian 5.31% 13.92% -8.61% -61.85% 0.38 0.42
Black 15.82% 6.42% 9.40% 146.43% 2.46 2.74
Hispanic 40.80% 38.72% 2.08% 5.37% 1.05 1.17
Middle Eastern/South
4.82%
Asian
Overall
Multiracial 0.87% 4.75% -3.89% -81.79% 0.18 0.2
Native American 0.21% 0.31% -0.10% -33.25% 0.67 0.74
Other 0.27%
Pacific Islander 0.52% 0.34% 0.18% 52.47% 1.52 1.7
White 31.66% 35.26% -3.60% -10.22% 0.9
Asian 4.41% 13.36% -8.95% -66.97% 0.33 0.4
Black 22.25% 7.82% 14.43% 184.62% 2.85 3.41
Hispanic 41.51% 41.17% 0.34% 0.83% 1.01 1.21
Middle Eastern/South
3.31%
Asian
Municipal
Multiracial 0.96% 4.53% -3.57% -78.77% 0.21 0.25
Native American 0.17% 0.24% -0.07% -29.27% 0.71 0.85
Other 0.31%
Pacific Islander 0.46% 0.31% 0.15% 47.66% 1.48 1.77
White 26.93% 32.27% -5.34% -16.56% 0.83
Asian 1.66% 7.29% -5.63% -77.22% 0.23 0.22
Bakersfield PD Black 15.24% 7.23% 8.01% 110.74% 2.11 2.03
Hispanic 46.34% 48.57% -2.23% -4.59% 0.95 0.92
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RIPA Officer-Initiated Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Middle Eastern/South
2.49%
Asian
Multiracial 0.33% 3.78% -3.44% -91.14% 0.09 0.09
Native American 0.09% 0.25% -0.17% -65.71% 0.34 0.33
Other 0.17%
Pacific Islander 0.14% 0.19% -0.05% -27.13% 0.73 0.7
White 33.71% 32.52% 1.19% 3.66% 1.04
Asian 5.89% 14.28% -8.40% -58.78% 0.41 0.44
Black 11.69% 5.52% 6.17% 111.70% 2.12 2.27
Hispanic 40.35% 37.15% 3.20% 8.61% 1.09 1.16
Middle Eastern/South
5.79%
California Asian
Highway Patrol Multiracial 0.80% 4.89% -4.09% -83.58% 0.16 0.18
Native American 0.23% 0.36% -0.13% -34.93% 0.65 0.7
Other 0.25%
Pacific Islander 0.56% 0.36% 0.20% 55.17% 1.55 1.66
White 34.69% 37.18% -2.49% -6.68% 0.93
Asian 10.80% 22.68% -11.88% -52.39% 0.48 0.55
Black 10.64% 2.07% 8.57% 413.45% 5.13 5.95
Hispanic 22.68% 12.26% 10.42% 85.05% 1.85 2.14
Davis PD Middle Eastern/South
4.64%
Asian
Multiracial 3.13% 6.41% -3.28% -51.17% 0.49 0.57
Native American 0.11% 0.40% -0.29% -72.89% 0.27 0.31
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RIPA Officer-Initiated Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Other 0.38%
Pacific Islander 0.11% 0.31% -0.21% -65.57% 0.34 0.4
White 47.89% 55.48% -7.59% -13.67% 0.86
Asian 4.46% 13.44% -8.98% -66.82% 0.33 0.34
Black 12.92% 7.04% 5.88% 83.47% 1.83 1.9
Hispanic 52.08% 47.61% 4.47% 9.38% 1.09 1.13
Middle Eastern/South
3.95%
Asian
Fresno PD
Multiracial 0.22% 4.23% -4.00% -94.71% 0.05 0.05
Native American 0.16% 0.48% -0.32% -65.85% 0.34 0.35
Other 0.17%
Pacific Islander 0.14% 0.10% 0.04% 43.32% 1.43 1.48
White 26.06% 26.93% -0.87% -3.23% 0.97
Asian 5.65% 12.84% -7.18% -55.96% 0.44 0.57
Black 27.32% 12.21% 15.11% 123.74% 2.24 2.91
Hispanic 38.43% 40.73% -2.31% -5.66% 0.94 1.23
Middle Eastern/South
1.52%
Asian
Long Beach PD
Multiracial 4.34% 4.66% -0.32% -6.91% 0.93 1.21
Native American 0.10% 0.33% -0.23% -69.22% 0.31 0.4
Other 0.31%
Pacific Islander 0.96% 0.75% 0.21% 28.22% 1.28 1.67
White 21.68% 28.16% -6.48% -23.01% 0.77
Asian 6.23% 14.43% -8.20% -56.86% 0.43 0.47
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RIPA Officer-Initiated Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Black 16.55% 7.84% 8.71% 111.17% 2.11 2.3
Hispanic 49.03% 46.76% 2.27% 4.86% 1.05 1.14
Middle Eastern/South
2.28%
Asian
Los Angeles CO
Multiracial 1.34% 4.00% -2.66% -66.49% 0.34 0.37
SD
Native American 0.05% 0.21% -0.16% -77.86% 0.22 0.24
Other 0.32%
Pacific Islander 0.52% 0.24% 0.27% 112.50% 2.12 2.32
White 24.01% 26.2% -2.19% -8.38% 0.92
Asian 3.32% 11.46% -8.14% -71.05% 0.29 0.5
Black 26.73% 8.61% 18.12% 210.29% 3.1 5.39
Hispanic 48.88% 47.02% 1.86% 3.96% 1.04 1.81
Middle Eastern/South
3.94%
Asian
Los Angeles PD
Multiracial 0.45% 3.75% -3.3% -87.99% 0.12 0.21
Native American 0.06% 0.16% -0.10% -62.74% 0.37 0.65
Other 0.37%
Pacific Islander 0.22% 0.13% 0.09% 73.68% 1.74 3.02
White 16.40% 28.48% -12.09% -42.44% 0.58
Asian 5.26% 15.34% -10.07% -65.68% 0.34 0.84
Black 51.68% 23.23% 28.45% 122.46% 2.22 5.46
Oakland PD Hispanic 26.9% 24.99% 1.91% 7.64% 1.08 2.64
Middle Eastern/South
2.86%
Asian
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RIPA Officer-Initiated Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Multiracial 0.77% 6.87% -6.10% -88.83% 0.11 0.27
Native American 0.10% 0.34% -0.24% -71.33% 0.29 0.7
Other 0.43%
Pacific Islander 0.91% 0.53% 0.38% 72.94% 1.73 4.24
White 11.53% 28.28% -16.75% -59.24% 0.41
Asian 6.40% 20.29% -13.89% -68.45% 0.32 0.27
Black 3.90% 1.62% 2.28% 140.74% 2.41 2.03
Hispanic 34.14% 32.73% 1.41% 4.31% 1.04 0.88
Middle Eastern/South
5.22%
Asian
Orange CO SO
Multiracial 0.54% 4.10% -3.56% -86.74% 0.13 0.11
Native American 1.19% 0.19% 0.99% 514.55% 6.15 5.19
Other 0.19%
Pacific Islander 0.53% 0.28% 0.25% 88.43% 1.88 1.59
White 48.08% 40.59% 7.49% 18.46% 1.18
Asian 3.27% 6.32% -3.05% -48.26% 0.52 0.5
Black 11.71% 6.10% 5.61% 91.91% 1.92 1.86
Hispanic 44.9% 46.91% -2.01% -4.28% 0.96 0.93
Middle Eastern/South
1.92%
Riverside CO SO Asian
Multiracial 0.88% 4.41% -3.53% -80.03% 0.2 0.19
Native American 0.27% 0.43% -0.16% -37.62% 0.62 0.6
Other 0.25%
Pacific Islander 0.54% 0.27% 0.27% 101.87% 2.02 1.95
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RIPA Officer-Initiated Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
White 36.51% 35.32% 1.19% 3.38% 1.03
Asian 3.57% 15.44% -11.87% -76.88% 0.23 0.25
Black 32.42% 9.49% 22.93% 241.60% 3.42 3.75
Hispanic 18.09% 21.06% -2.97% -14.08% 0.86 0.94
Middle Eastern/South
2.73%
Asian
Sacramento CO SD
Multiracial 1.66% 7.47% -5.81% -77.80% 0.22 0.24
Native American 0.12% 0.36% -0.24% -66.77% 0.33 0.37
Other 0.33%
Pacific Islander 0.71% 1.12% -0.41% -36.60% 0.63 0.7
White 40.70% 44.72% -4.03% -9.00% 0.91
Asian 5.10% 18.59% -13.50% -72.59% 0.27 0.35
Black 42.81% 12.74% 30.07% 235.96% 3.36 4.23
Hispanic 21.61% 26.33% -4.72% -17.94% 0.82 1.03
Middle Eastern/South
2.33%
Asian
Sacramento PD
Multiracial 1.66% 7.43% -5.77% -77.64% 0.22 0.28
Native American 0.10% 0.37% -0.28% -74.05% 0.26 0.33
Other 0.38%
Pacific Islander 0.64% 1.71% -1.08% -62.83% 0.37 0.47
White 25.76% 32.43% -6.67% -20.58% 0.79
Asian 3.24% 6.99% -3.75% -53.62% 0.46 0.37
San Bernardino CO
Black 17.07% 7.88% 9.19% 116.66% 2.17 1.72
SO
Hispanic 39.33% 50.81% -11.48% -22.60% 0.77 0.61
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RIPA Officer-Initiated Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Middle Eastern/South
1.95%
Asian
Multiracial 1.73% 4.98% -3.25% -65.25% 0.35 0.28
Native American 0.21% 0.36% -0.15% -42.38% 0.58 0.46
Other 0.17%
Pacific Islander 0.43% 0.29% 0.14% 49.50% 1.49 1.18
White 36.04% 28.53% 7.51% 26.33% 1.26
Asian 3.58% 11.63% -8.05% -69.24% 0.31 0.28
Black 6.93% 4.71% 2.23% 47.33% 1.47 1.32
Hispanic 32.79% 31.91% 0.88% 2.76% 1.03 0.92
Middle Eastern/South
3.00%
Asian
San Diego CO SO
Multiracial 1.38% 5.24% -3.87% -73.75% 0.26 0.24
Native American 0.58% 0.38% 0.20% 54.42% 1.54 1.38
Other 0.20%
Pacific Islander 0.95% 0.38% 0.56% 146.56% 2.47 2.21
White 50.8% 45.56% 5.24% 11.51% 1.12
Asian 4.95% 16.42% -11.47% -69.85 0.3 0.32
Black 19.96% 6.05% 13.91% 230.14% 3.3 3.5
Hispanic 30.10% 28.69% 1.40% 4.90% 1.05 1.11
San Diego PD Middle Eastern/South
2.75%
Asian
Multiracial 0.97% 5.27% -4.30% -81.62% 0.18 0.19
Native American 0.20% 0.22% -0.01% -4.95% 0.95 1.01
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RIPA Officer-Initiated Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Other 0.21%
Pacific Islander 0.73% 0.38% 0.35% 90.18% 1.9 2.02
White 40.34% 42.76% -2.42% -5.66% 0.94
Asian 11.95% 34.07% -22.12% -64.92% 0.35 0.42
Black 24.30% 5.00% 19.30% 385.63% 4.86 5.83
Hispanic 19.71% 13.91% 5.80% 41.66% 1.42 1.7
Middle Eastern/South
6.61%
Asian
San Francisco PD
Multiracial 2.13% 5.57% -3.44% -61.73% 0.38 0.46
Native American 0.13% 0.19% -0.06% -30.79% 0.69 0.83
Other 0.41%
Pacific Islander 1.41% 0.34% 1.08% 320.70% 4.21 5.05
White 33.75% 40.51% -6.75% -16.67% 0.83
Asian 14.60% 35.70% -21.10% -59.10% 0.41 0.51
Black 6.84% 2.83% 4.00% 141.15% 2.41 3.03
Hispanic 50.36% 29.48% 20.87% 70.79% 1.71 2.14
Middle Eastern/South
5.23%
Asian
San Jose PD
Multiracial 1.65% 5.35% -3.70% -69.15% 0.31 0.39
Native American 0.13% 0.18% -0.05% -27.61% 0.72 0.91
Other 0.34%
Pacific Islander 0.70% 0.40% 0.31% 76.85% 1.77 2.22
White 20.49% 25.73% -5.23% -20.34% 0.8
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RIPA Officer-Initiated Stop Distribution Compared to Weighted Population Distribution by Race/Ethnicity
A B C D E F
Equation A-B C/B*100 A/B E(m)/E(w)*
Absolute Relative
RIPA ACS Disparity Ratio of
Agency Race/Ethnicity % %
2020 2019 Index Disparity
Difference Difference
Notes. 2020 RIPA stop data were compared to 2019 residential population data from the American Community Survey (ACS). For a full
description of the methodology, please see Appendix C.1. “Overall” refers to all agencies combined while “Municipal” excludes California
Highway Patrol. E(m)/E(w); disparity index for minority group of color (m) divided by the value for White individuals (w).
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D.2 Discovery Rate Analysis Tables
D.2.1 Search Rates
Regression Statistics for Search Rates by Race/Ethnicity
Agency Statistic Asian Black Hispanic Other
***-0.020
Coefficients ***0.010 ***0.006 ***-0.018
Overall (0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001)
Observations 1081587 1414138 2117501 1113754
Adjusted R2 0.305 0.349 0.324 0.305
***-0.034 ***0.010 0.001 ***-0.037
Coefficients
Municipal (0.002) (0.002) (0.001) (0.002)
Observations 392686 626583 843751 399445
Adjusted R2 0.291 0.304 0.302 0.287
0.042
Coefficients -0.003 -0.011 -0.044
Bakersfield PD (0.026) (0.012) (0.009) (0.022)
Observations 4452 6323 9633 4620
Adjusted R2 0.353 0.339 0.340 0.355
***-0.009 *-0.001 ***0.006 ***-0.006
Coefficients
California Highway
(0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.000)
Patrol 688901 787555 1273750 714309
Observations
Adjusted R2 0.091 0.091 0.107 0.090
0.118
Coefficients 0.045 -0.003 -0.033
Davis PD (0.037) (0.032) (0.018) (0.030)
Observations 1552 1612 1903 1497
Adjusted R2 0.253 0.228 0.235 0.245
0.007
Coefficients 0.014 -0.007 -0.015
Fresno PD (0.006) (0.010) (0.005) (0.008)
Observations 4490 5832 11465 4483
Adjusted R2 0.478 0.438 0.392 0.465
0.138
Coefficients 0.057 -0.037 -0.075
LAUSD (0.075) (0.055) (0.059) (0.083)
Observations 159 313 888 180
Adjusted R2 0.506 0.430 0.509 0.544
0.057
Coefficients -0.005 -0.009 *-0.044
Long Beach PD (0.015) (0.010) (0.010) (0.017)
Observations 4721 8682 10325 4942
Adjusted R2 0.264 0.239 0.228 0.271
***-0.037
Coefficients *-0.011 *-0.008 ***-0.026
Los Angeles CO SD
(0.006) (0.005) (0.003) (0.006)
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Regression Statistics for Search Rates by Race/Ethnicity
Agency Statistic Asian Black Hispanic Other
Observations 31208 42868 75740 29315
Adjusted R2 0.473 0.447 0.464 0.465
0.014
Coefficients ***0.015 ***0.012 ***-0.028
Los Angeles PD (0.003) (0.002) (0.002) (0.003)
Observations 104820 228139 341292 111643
Adjusted R2 0.336 0.376 0.341 0.334
0.006
Coefficients 0.022 0.025 *-0.046
Oakland PD (0.017) (0.010) (0.012) (0.018)
Observations 3729 13906 8107 3641
Adjusted R2 0.342 0.295 0.345 0.312
0.055
Coefficients -0.022 -0.011 ***-0.054
Orange CO SO (0.011) (0.012) (0.006) (0.009)
Observations 21759 20817 32839 22178
Adjusted R2 0.401 0.391 0.377 0.398
0.011
Coefficients -0.004 0.000 -0.004
Riverside CO SO (0.006) (0.004) (0.003) (0.005)
Observations 22442 27344 45815 22640
Adjusted R2 0.430 0.402 0.367 0.431
0.029
Coefficients 0.011 0.002 ***-0.049
Sacramento CO SD (0.017) (0.006) (0.007) (0.013)
Observations 20869 33222 26793 21563
Adjusted R2 0.181 0.173 0.173 0.176
0.039
Coefficients **0.017 0.004 ***-0.052
Sacramento PD (0.010) (0.006) (0.007) (0.011)
Observations 16607 35798 24768 16486
Adjusted R2 0.241 0.208 0.224 0.229
0.097
Coefficients ***-0.025 ***-0.028 ***-0.053
San Bernardino CO SO (0.011) (0.005) (0.004) (0.007)
Observations 42805 58407 82088 44014
Adjusted R2 0.265 0.247 0.245 0.261
0.056
Coefficients *-0.024 ***-0.024 ***-0.053
San Diego CO SO (0.011) (0.009) (0.006) (0.009)
Observations 21155 22571 32471 22060
Adjusted R2 0.273 0.263 0.248 0.270
***-0.037
Coefficients ***0.017 0.007 ***-0.030
San Diego PD
(0.005) (0.004) (0.003) (0.005)
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Regression Statistics for Search Rates by Race/Ethnicity
Agency Statistic Asian Black Hispanic Other
Observations 68523 91846 106004 68264
Adjusted R2 0.163 0.148 0.155 0.159
0.026
Coefficients ***0.040 **0.024 ***-0.042
San Francisco PD (0.006) (0.007) (0.007) (0.008)
Observations 17133 23698 20821 16776
Adjusted R2 0.285 0.257 0.277 0.276
0.045
Coefficients 0.020 0.005 ***-0.051
San Jose PD (0.013) (0.014) (0.008) (0.014)
Observations 6262 5205 12799 5143
Adjusted R2 0.332 0.308 0.267 0.332
Notes. For a full description of the methodology, please see Appendix C.3. Each set of model
statistics for a particular agency and race/ethnicity corresponds to a single regression test. Each
model only contained a single racial/ethnic group of color and White individuals; White individuals
were the reference group for all analyses. “Overall” refers to all agencies combined while
“Municipal” excludes California Highway Patrol. Asterisks represent level of significance for
adjusted p values using the Benjamini-Hochberg Procedure for multiple comparisons *** p < 0.001;
** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05. Coefficients; estimate (standard error). Observations represent the number
of stops analyzed by the statistical model.
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D.2.2 Discovery Rates during Stops with Discretionary Searches
Regression Statistics for Discretionary-Search Discovery Rates by Race/Ethnicity
Agency Statistic Asian Black Hispanic Other
-0.003 ***-0.016 ***-0.014 **-0.020
Coefficients
Overall (0.009) (0.004) (0.004) (0.008)
Observations 46480 108768 128193 48341
Adjusted R2 0.157 0.186 0.171 0.161
0.000
Coefficients **-0.015 **-0.011 *-0.018
Municipal (0.010) (0.004) (0.004) (0.008)
Observations 44913 106699 124987 46715
Adjusted R2 0.140 0.177 0.159 0.143
-0.031 0.006 -0.117
Coefficients 0.091 (0.173)
Bakersfield PD (0.023) (0.019) (0.080)
Observations 688 1084 1553 709
Adjusted R2 0.154 0.148 0.118 0.160
-0.050 -0.035 **-0.106 -0.052
Coefficients
California Highway
(0.046) (0.033) (0.027) (0.049)
Patrol 1567 2069 3206 1626
Observations
Adjusted R2 0.380 0.359 0.327 0.380
-0.161 0.043 *0.271
Coefficients 0.220 (0.152)
Davis PD (0.073) (0.036) (0.094)
Observations 300 355 408 315
Adjusted R2 0.011 0.076 0.037 0.066
-0.005 0.037 0.038
Coefficients 0.083 (0.062)
Long Beach PD (0.023) (0.023) (0.045)
Observations 694 1577 1853 750
Adjusted R2 0.018 0.036 0.071 0.022
0.028
Coefficients ***-0.076 -0.032 -0.012
Los Angeles CO SD (0.054) (0.016) (0.013) (0.042)
Observations 2105 4926 7577 2432
Adjusted R2 0.102 0.148 0.139 0.107
-0.007 -0.004 -0.015
Coefficients 0.004 (0.017)
Los Angeles PD (0.007) (0.006) (0.012)
Observations 7623 42848 53816 8550
Adjusted R2 0.187 0.228 0.173 0.204
*0.047 *0.061 -0.003
Oakland PD Coefficients 0.014 (0.036)
(0.016) (0.020) (0.040)
Observations 953 3719 1957 911
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Regression Statistics for Discretionary-Search Discovery Rates by Race/Ethnicity
Agency Statistic Asian Black Hispanic Other
Adjusted R2 0.155 0.165 0.171 0.138
*-0.073 **-0.049 -0.083
Coefficients 0.013 (0.043)
Orange CO SO (0.026) (0.012) (0.034)
Observations 3807 3924 6981 3843
Adjusted R2 0.156 0.160 0.143 0.156
0.065
Coefficients -0.084 -0.031 -0.112
Riverside CO SO (0.054) (0.037) (0.022) (0.058)
Observations 896 1121 1978 917
Adjusted R2 0.170 0.179 0.162 0.169
0.018
Coefficients -0.016 0.000 -0.005
Sacramento CO SD (0.025) (0.010) (0.013) (0.022)
Observations 4139 7136 5503 4256
Adjusted R2 0.109 0.114 0.106 0.111
0.012
Coefficients -0.029 -0.018 -0.033
Sacramento PD (0.026) (0.011) (0.014) (0.025)
Observations 3782 10435 6165 3757
Adjusted R2 0.080 0.102 0.084 0.086
0.005
Coefficients *-0.027 *-0.021 -0.005
San Bernardino CO SO (0.029) (0.009) (0.007) (0.019)
Observations 8908 12720 17134 9210
Adjusted R2 0.126 0.151 0.128 0.127
0.032 -0.011 -0.022
Coefficients 0.069 (0.058)
San Diego CO SO (0.029) (0.015) (0.035)
Observations 2723 3039 4369 2814
Adjusted R2 0.066 0.063 0.086 0.069
0.004
Coefficients 0.026 0.018 -0.011
San Diego PD (0.030) (0.018) (0.017) (0.027)
Observations 5657 9395 10394 5613
Adjusted R2 0.105 0.119 0.113 0.106
0.029
Coefficients 0.009 0.039 -0.025
San Francisco PD (0.038) (0.019) (0.021) (0.034)
Observations 1606 3186 2361 1694
Adjusted R2 0.146 0.164 0.155 0.150
-0.017 -0.019 0.013
San Jose PD Coefficients 0.017 (0.047)
(0.041) (0.026) (0.055)
Observations 892 957 2505 811
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Regression Statistics for Discretionary-Search Discovery Rates by Race/Ethnicity
Agency Statistic Asian Black Hispanic Other
Adjusted R2 0.098 0.096 0.108 0.082
Notes. For a full description of the methodology, please see Appendix C.3. Each set of model
statistics for a particular agency and race/ethnicity corresponds to a single regression test. Each model
only contained a single racial/ethnic group of color and White individuals; White individuals were the
reference group for all analyses. “Overall” refers to all agencies combined while “Municipal”
excludes CHP. Asterisks represent level of significance for adjusted p values using the Benjamini-
Hochberg Procedure for multiple comparisons *** p < 0.001; ** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05. Coefficients;
estimate (standard error). Observations represent the number of stops analyzed by the statistical
model.
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D.2.3 Discovery Rates during Stops with Administrative Searches
Regression Statistics for Administrative-Search Discovery Rates by Race/Ethnicity
Agency Statistic Asian Black Hispanic Other
-0.015 -0.003 ***-0.013 **-0.025
Coefficients
Overall (0.009) (0.004) (0.003) (0.007)
Observations 42337 73072 101814 43948
Adjusted R2 0.177 0.159 0.183 0.171
-0.004 -0.003 **-0.031
Coefficients 0.002 (0.012)
Municipal (0.005) (0.004) (0.009)
Observations 30100 56928 70706 31173
Adjusted R2 0.163 0.147 0.152 0.155
-0.075 -0.017 0.062
Coefficients 0.014 (0.191)
Bakersfield PD (0.039) (0.030) (0.108)
Observations 591 906 1281 624
Adjusted R2 0.103 0.081 0.108 0.086
***-0.054 **-0.023 ***-0.037 -0.020
Coefficients
California Highway
(0.011) (0.007) (0.005) (0.010)
Patrol 12237 16144 31108 12775
Observations
Adjusted R2 0.148 0.152 0.164 0.150
0.150
Coefficients -0.060 -0.035 -0.071
Davis PD (0.081) (0.045) (0.073) (0.106)
Observations 261 314 355 267
Adjusted R2 0.189 0.170 0.027 0.131
-0.052 -0.024 0.055
Coefficients 0.217 (0.148)
Long Beach PD (0.053) (0.050) (0.101)
Observations 275 596 607 279
Adjusted R2 0.052 0.014 0.126 0.066
-0.025 -0.011 -0.067
Coefficients 0.011 (0.072)
Los Angeles CO SD (0.022) (0.019) (0.052)
Observations 1312 2913 4148 1470
Adjusted R2 0.141 0.104 0.140 0.107
0.024
Coefficients -0.009 -0.004 -0.038
Los Angeles PD (0.021) (0.009) (0.008) (0.018)
Observations 7426 19420 29051 7890
Adjusted R2 0.183 0.177 0.157 0.187
-0.007 0.040 -0.009
Oakland PD Coefficients 0.015 (0.027)
(0.053) (0.024) (0.049)
Observations 757 3666 2115 714
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Regression Statistics for Administrative-Search Discovery Rates by Race/Ethnicity
Agency Statistic Asian Black Hispanic Other
Adjusted R2 0.177 0.160 0.164 0.251
0.084
Coefficients -0.142 -0.045 -0.041
Orange CO SO (0.098) (0.111) (0.059) (0.098)
Observations 455 459 713 439
Adjusted R2 0.039 0.018 0.116 -0.004
-0.004 0.018 0.007
Coefficients 0.019 (0.035)
Riverside CO SO (0.162) (0.059) (0.085)
Observations 555 714 1232 579
Adjusted R2 -0.036 0.015 0.110 -0.031
-0.010 -0.002 -0.066
Coefficients 0.012 (0.050)
Sacramento PD (0.023) (0.029) (0.044)
Observations 1208 2523 1815 1246
Adjusted R2 0.166 0.094 0.094 0.124
***-0.073 -0.019 -0.054
Coefficients 0.150 (0.059)
San Bernardino CO
(0.013) (0.011) (0.025)
SO 4147 5804 7949 4330
Observations
Adjusted R2 0.141 0.148 0.144 0.130
-0.028 -0.046 -0.004
Coefficients 0.071 (0.069)
San Diego CO SO (0.036) (0.021) (0.048)
Observations 1601 1799 2561 1641
Adjusted R2 0.161 0.153 0.144 0.155
-0.015 **0.035 0.008
Coefficients 0.020 (0.010)
San Diego PD (0.021) (0.009) (0.019)
Observations 7238 10591 12058 7358
Adjusted R2 0.115 0.106 0.116 0.115
-0.064 0.007 -0.010
Coefficients 0.004 (0.026)
San Francisco PD (0.037) (0.022) (0.051)
Observations 1403 2799 2225 1435
Adjusted R2 0.213 0.161 0.220 0.146
0.047
Coefficients -0.032 -0.030 -0.150
San Jose PD (0.062) (0.059) (0.033) (0.072)
Observations 485 534 1175 429
Adjusted R2 0.134 0.134 0.105 0.090
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Regression Statistics for Administrative-Search Discovery Rates by Race/Ethnicity
Agency Statistic Asian Black Hispanic Other
Notes. For a full description of the methodology, please see Appendix C.3. Each set of model
statistics for a particular agency and race/ethnicity corresponds to a single regression test. Each model
only contained a single racial/ethnic group of color and White individuals; White individuals were the
reference group for all analyses. “Overall” refers to all agencies combined while “Municipal”
excludes CHP. Asterisks represent level of significance for adjusted p values using the Benjamini-
Hochberg Procedure for multiple comparisons *** p < 0.001; ** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05. Coefficients;
estimate (standard error). Observations represent the number of stops analyzed by the statistical
model.
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D.3 Veil of Darkness Analysis Table
Regression Statistics for Veil of Darkness by Race/Ethnicity
Agency Statistic Asian Black Hispanic Other
0.004 ***-0.021 ***-0.023 -0.002
Coefficients
(0.002) (0.003) (0.002) (0.003)
Overall
Observations 148276 191844 297899 154372
Adjusted R2 0.131 0.358 0.230 0.140
0.008 ***-0.021 ***-0.018 0.006
Coefficients
(0.006) (0.005) (0.004) (0.006)
Municipal
Observations 33777 62715 90553 34335
Adjusted R2 0.163 0.456 0.291 0.190
0.046 -0.071 -0.080 0.052
Coefficients
(0.060) (0.118) (0.057) (0.061)
Bakersfield PD
Observations 288 385 679 306
Adjusted R2 0.130 0.137 0.066 -0.074
0.004 ***-0.021 ***-0.026 -0.002
Coefficients
(0.003) (0.003) (0.003) (0.003)
California Highway
Patrol Observations 114499 129129 207346 120037
Adjusted R2 0.117 0.182 0.189 0.129
0.033 -0.005 0.166 -0.177
Coefficients
(0.104) (0.102) (0.079) (0.088)
Davis PD
Observations 134 126 171 128
Adjusted R2 0.161 0.112 0.021 0.003
0.040 0.006 -0.001 0.015
Coefficients
(0.037) (0.041) (0.018) (0.031)
Fresno PD
Observations 659 927 1903 666
Adjusted R2 0.180 0.053 0.052 0.008
0.057 -0.010 -0.016 -0.053
Coefficients
(0.055) (0.042) (0.034) (0.037)
Long Beach PD
Observations 522 883 1158 532
Adjusted R2 0.197 0.232 0.133 0.374
-0.005 -0.031 -0.026 0.013
Coefficients
(0.017) (0.022) (0.012) (0.016)
Los Angeles CO SD
Observations 3824 5185 8796 3497
Adjusted R2 0.359 0.345 0.181 0.255
0.004 -0.016 **-0.020 0.009
Coefficients
Los Angeles PD (0.013) (0.007) (0.005) (0.014)
Observations 8787 27412 43899 9473
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Regression Statistics for Veil of Darkness by Race/Ethnicity
Agency Statistic Asian Black Hispanic Other
Adjusted R2 0.077 0.470 0.214 0.188
-0.037 -0.089 0.048 0.044
Coefficients
(0.123) (0.055) (0.071) (0.118)
Oakland PD
Observations 236 806 504 256
Adjusted R2 0.111 0.123 0.183 0.096
0.006 -0.017 -0.028 0.035
Coefficients
(0.023) (0.012) (0.028) (0.020)
Orange CO SO
Observations 2081 1947 3039 2130
Adjusted R2 0.103 0.087 0.120 0.067
0.012 0.006 0.021 0.028
Coefficients
(0.014) (0.020) (0.018) (0.018)
Riverside CO SO
Observations 2208 2633 4504 2245
Adjusted R2 0.148 0.276 0.293 0.173
0.004 *-0.082 -0.048 -0.040
Coefficients
(0.020) (0.025) (0.026) (0.029)
Sacramento CO SD
Observations 1544 2828 2261 1599
Adjusted R2 0.131 0.205 0.164 0.067
0.004 -0.046 -0.030 -0.002
Coefficients
(0.025) (0.018) (0.023) (0.020)
Sacramento PD
Observations 1966 5154 3391 2026
Adjusted R2 0.082 0.149 0.130 0.263
-0.000 0.000 0.005 -0.010
Coefficients
(0.014) (0.018) (0.018) (0.017)
San Bernardino CO
SO Observations 3810 4961 7424 3888
Adjusted R2 0.189 0.204 0.166 0.133
0.002 0.023 -0.023 -0.063
Coefficients
(0.022) (0.027) (0.028) (0.033)
San Diego CO SO
Observations 1606 1673 2822 1704
Adjusted R2 0.050 0.116 0.259 0.106
-0.014 -0.014 -0.009 0.029
Coefficients
(0.021) (0.020) (0.019) (0.022)
San Diego PD
Observations 3794 5075 6555 3713
Adjusted R2 0.099 0.379 0.228 0.067
0.064 -0.029 -0.048 0.040
Coefficients
San Francisco PD (0.024) (0.031) (0.031) (0.028)
Observations 1770 2229 2014 1713
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Regression Statistics for Veil of Darkness by Race/Ethnicity
Agency Statistic Asian Black Hispanic Other
Adjusted R2 0.049 0.243 0.154 0.248
0.058 0.022 -0.003 0.042
Coefficients
(0.073) (0.085) (0.036) (0.068)
San Jose PD
Observations 546 485 1417 456
Adjusted R2 0.186 0.028 0.108 0.143
Notes. For a full description of the methodology, please see Appendix C.3. Each set of model
statistics for a particular agency and race/ethnicity corresponds to a single regression test. Each
model only contained a single racial/ethnic group of color and White individuals; White
individuals were the reference group for all analyses. “Overall” refers to all agencies combined
while “Municipal” excludes CHP. Asterisks represent level of significance for adjusted p values
using the Benjamini-Hochberg Procedure for multiple comparisons: *** p < 0.001; ** p < 0.01; *
p < 0.05. Coefficients; estimate (standard error). Observations represent the number of stops
analyzed by the statistical model.
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D.4 Use of Force Analysis Table
Regression Statistics for Use of Force by Race/Ethnicity
Agency Statistic Asian Black Hispanic Other
***0.796
Coefficients ***1.319 ***1.158 ***0.823
Overall (0.055) (0.025) (0.022) (0.045)
Observations 260353 504769 802035 275760
Adjusted R2 0.162 0.172 0.182 0.165
*0.873 ***1.244 ***1.163 **0.859
Coefficients
Municipal (0.061) (0.025) (0.024) (0.049)
Observations 136333 310086 423394 142869
Adjusted R2 0.128 0.146 0.151 0.131
1.356 1.230 2.006
Coefficients 1.076 (0.209)
Bakersfield PD (0.691) (0.150) (0.507)
Observations 1263 2633 4867 1475
Adjusted R2 -0.116 -0.033 0.025 -0.149
***0.465 *1.251 0.993 0.732
Coefficients
California Highway
(0.147) (0.073) (0.053) (0.114)
Patrol 104385 153692 303575 111135
Observations
Adjusted R2 0.011 0.018 0.048 0.014
0.000 2.863 39.599
Coefficients 3.841 (0.588)
Davis PD (6.992) (0.530) (1.914)
Observations 232 735 800 258
Adjusted R2 -0.146 -0.236 -0.159 -0.153
0.895 1.571 1.195
Coefficients 1.380 (0.186)
Long Beach PD (0.562) (0.186) (0.385)
Observations 1034 3121 4279 1103
Adjusted R2 -0.005 0.025 0.096 0.024
0.611 1.134 0.631
Coefficients 1.003 (0.122)
Los Angeles CO SD (0.283) (0.111) (0.250)
Observations 3886 11226 17551 4238
Adjusted R2 0.012 0.104 0.137 0.022
0.812
Coefficients **1.244 *1.148 0.778
Los Angeles PD (0.139) (0.059) (0.048) (0.108)
Observations 20563 92861 158490 24242
Adjusted R2 0.035 0.059 0.097 0.045
0.914
Coefficients *1.371 1.233 1.150
Oakland PD
(0.247) (0.097) (0.132) (0.253)
Observations 1536 11613 5426 1479
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Regression Statistics for Use of Force by Race/Ethnicity
Agency Statistic Asian Black Hispanic Other
Adjusted R2 -0.172 0.063 -0.008 -0.128
0.553 0.966 0.916
Coefficients 1.664 (0.258)
Orange CO SO (0.397) (0.143) (0.360)
Observations 4110 4490 10016 4340
Adjusted R2 0.084 0.084 0.133 0.073
0.692 1.259 0.817
Coefficients 1.644 (0.304)
Riverside CO SO (0.906) (0.162) (0.651)
Observations 1075 2025 6821 1016
Adjusted R2 -0.149 0.034 0.120 -0.137
0.941
Coefficients ***1.279 1.193 0.789
Sacramento PD (0.134) (0.059) (0.080) (0.131)
Observations 9910 29205 17484 9813
Adjusted R2 0.092 0.175 0.142 0.101
1.473 1.133 0.851
Coefficients 1.175 (0.079)
San Bernardino CO
(0.244) (0.070) (0.187)
SO 18963 31813 50868 19572
Observations
Adjusted R2 0.255 0.253 0.261 0.261
1.661 1.384 1.214
Coefficients 1.544 (0.232)
San Diego CO SO (0.437) (0.134) (0.271)
Observations 4843 6054 10503 5251
Adjusted R2 -0.049 -0.020 0.023 -0.034
0.803 1.135 0.866
Coefficients 1.170 (0.066)
San Diego PD (0.152) (0.057) (0.116)
Observations 29364 49735 59844 29950
Adjusted R2 0.151 0.161 0.165 0.153
0.536 1.043 0.742
Coefficients 1.156 (0.112)
San Francisco PD (0.259) (0.132) (0.207)
Observations 4549 10003 7165 4730
Adjusted R2 0.073 0.129 0.068 0.071
0.704 1.182 1.245
Coefficients 1.201 (0.240)
San Jose PD (0.398) (0.169) (0.405)
Observations 1081 1372 5835 1026
Adjusted R2 -0.109 -0.060 -0.023 -0.065
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Regression Statistics for Use of Force by Race/Ethnicity
Agency Statistic Asian Black Hispanic Other
Notes. For a full description of the methodology, please see Appendix C.4. Each set of model statistics
for a particular agency and race/ethnicity corresponds to a single regression test. Each model only
contained a single racial/ethnic group of color and White individuals; White individuals were the
reference group for all analyses. “Overall” refers to all agencies combined while “Municipal” excludes
CHP. Asterisks represent level of significance for adjusted p values using the Benjamini-Hochberg
Procedure for multiple comparisons: *** p < 0.001; ** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05. Coefficients; estimate
(standard error). Observations represent the number of stops analyzed by the statistical model.
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APPENDIX E – WAVE 3 AND 4 BIAS-FREE POLICING
POLICIES
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E.1 Davis Police Department
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DAVIS POLICE DEPARTMENT
BIASED-BASED POLICING
Policy and Procedure 2.42-A
DEPARTMENT MANUAL
Index as:
Racial profiling
Bias-Based policing
Profiling
Stop data collection
Data collection
I. POLICY
The Davis Police Department is committed to providing law enforcement services to the community
with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences of those served.
Police action that is biased is unlawful and alienates the public, fosters distrust of police, and
undermines legitimate law enforcement efforts. Race, ethnicity or nationality, religion, sex, sexual
orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, economic status, age, cultural group, disability or
affiliation with any other similar identifiable group shall not be used as the basis for providing
differing levels of law enforcement service or enforcement of the law (i.e., discriminatory or bias-
based policing).
Furthermore, a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States is due process
and equal protection under the law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Along with this right
to due process and equal protection is the fundamental right to be free from unreasonable searches
and seizures by government agents as guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment. Therefore, it is the
policy of this Department to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the law equally, fairly,
objectively and without discrimination toward any individual or group. Members are charged with
protecting these rights.
Community members may file complaints for alleged bias-based or discriminatory policing at
https://cityofdavis.org/city-hall/police-department-/how-are-we-doing/complaint-inquiry-
submission/-fsiteid-1. The Department will investigate all complaints of bias-based or
discriminatory policing pursuant to Policy & Procedure 1.07-A, Civilian Complaints.
II. PURPOSE
The purpose of this policy is to increase the Department’s effectiveness as a law enforcement agency
and help build mutual trust and respect with diverse groups and communities. This policy provides
guidance to Department members that affirms the Davis Police Department’s commitment to
providing services and enforcing laws in a professional, nondiscriminatory, fair, and equitable
manner that keeps both the community and officers safe and protected. The Department recognizes
that explicit and implicit bias can occur at both an individual and an institutional level and is
committed to addressing and eradicating inappropriate use of biases.
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III. PROCEDURE
A. Definitions
“Age” refers to the chronological age of any individual.
“Ancestry” refers to a person’s family or ethnic descent.
“Behavioral Health Disabilities” refers to disabilities associated with substance-related disorders,
addictive disorders, and mental disorders.
“Bias-Based Policing” is conduct motivated, implicitly or explicitly, by the member’s beliefs about
someone based on the person’s actual or perceived personal characteristics, i.e., race, color, ethnicity,
national origin, age, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or mental or physical
disability. For purposes of this policy, bias-based policing also includes, but is not limited to, an
inappropriate reliance on actual or perceived characteristics of a person such as; language ability,
skin color, genetic information, marital status, behavioral health disability, where they are located,
mode of transportation, manner of dress, housing status, ancestry, medical condition, citizenship,
immigration status, and other such distinguishing characteristics.
“Detention or Investigatory Stop” is a seizure of a person by an officer that results from physical
restraint, unequivocal verbal commands, or words or conduct by an officer that would result in a
reasonable person believing that he or she is not free to leave or otherwise disregard the officer.
Absent physical restraint, before a detention exists in the law, it is necessary that the person actually
submits to the assertion of authority.
“Disability” includes mental disability and physical disability.
“Discriminatory Policing” refers to differential enforcement or non-enforcement of the law,
including the selection or rejection of particular policing tactics or strategies, which has a disparate
impact on individuals of a particular demographic category.
“Explicit Bias or Conscious Bias” is the traditional conceptualization of bias. With explicit bias,
individuals are aware of their prejudices and attitudes toward certain groups. Positive or negative
preferences for a particular group are conscious. Overt racism and racist comments are examples of
explicit biases.
“Field interview or FI” refers to voluntary contacts during which an officer may ask questions or
try to gain information about possible criminal activity, without indicating or implying that a person
is not free to leave or is obligated to answer the officer’s questions.
“Gender Identity” means a person’s internal, deeply-felt sense of being male, female, or something
other or in-between, regardless of the sex they were assigned at birth.
“Gender Expression” means an individual’s characteristics and behaviors (such as appearance,
dress, mannerisms, speech patterns, and social interactions) that may be perceived as masculine or
feminine.
“Genetic information” means, with respect to any individual, information about any of the
following:
• The individual’s genetic tests.
• The genetic tests of family members of the individual.
• The manifestation of a disease or disorder in family members of the individual.
“Genetic information” does not include information about the sex or age of any individual.
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“Implicit Bias or Unconscious Bias” refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect a person’s
understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. These biases, which encompass
both favorable and unfavorable assessments, are activated involuntarily and without an individual’s
awareness or intentional control. Implicit biases are different from known biases that individuals may
choose to conceal.
“LGBT” is a common abbreviation that refers to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
community.
“Mental Disability” includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
• Having any mental or psychological disorder or condition, such as intellectual disability,
organic brain syndrome, emotional or mental illness, or specific learning disabilities, that
limits a major life activity.
• Any other mental or psychological disorder or condition not described above that requires
special education or related services.
• Having a record or history of a mental or psychological disorder or condition.
• Being regarded or treated as having, or having had, any mental condition that makes
achievement of a major life activity difficult.
• Being regarded or treated as having, or having had, a mental or psychological disorder or
condition that has no present disabling effect, but that may become a mental disability.
“Mental disability” does not include sexual behavior disorders, compulsive gambling, kleptomania,
pyromania, or psychoactive substance use disorders resulting from the current unlawful use of
controlled substances or other drugs.
“Physical Disability” includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
• Having any physiological disease, disorder, condition, cosmetic disfigurement, or anatomical
loss that does both of the following:
Affects one or more of the following body systems: neurological, immunological,
musculoskeletal, special sense organs, respiratory, including speech organs,
cardiovascular, reproductive, digestive, genitourinary, hemic and lymphatic, skin, and
endocrine.
Limits a major life activity
• Any other health impairment not described above that requires special education or related
services.
• Having a record or history of a disease, disorder, condition, cosmetic disfigurement,
anatomical loss, or health impairment, which is known.
• Being regarded or treated as having, or having had, any physical condition that makes
achievement of a major life activity difficult.
• Being regarded or treated as having, or having had, a disease, disorder, condition, cosmetic
disfigurement, anatomical loss, or health impairment that has no present disabling effect but
may become a physical disability.
“Physical disability” does not include sexual behavior disorders, compulsive gambling, kleptomania,
pyromania, or psychoactive substance use disorders resulting from the current unlawful use of
controlled substances or other drugs.
“Probable Cause to Arrest” is a set of specific facts that would lead a reasonable person to
objectively believe and strongly suspect that a crime was committed by the person to be arrested.
“Race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability,
medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, or military
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and veteran status” includes a perception that the person has any of those characteristics or that
the person is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any of those characteristics.
“Racial or identity profiling” is the consideration of, or reliance on, to any degree, actual or
perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual
orientation, or mental or physical disability in deciding which persons to subject to a stop or in
deciding upon the scope or substance of law enforcement activities following a stop, except that an
officer may consider or rely on characteristics listed in a specific suspect description. The activities
include, but are not limited to, traffic or pedestrian stops, or actions during a stop, such as asking
questions, frisks, consensual and nonconsensual searches of a person or any property, seizing any
property, removing vehicle occupants during a traffic stop, issuing a citation, and making an arrest.
(Penal Code § 13519.4).
“Reasonable Suspicion to Conduct a Pat-Search” is justified if officers have a factual basis to
suspect that a person is carrying a weapon, dangerous instrument, or an object that can be used as a
weapon, or if the person poses a danger to the safety of the officer or others. Officers must be able to
articulate specific facts that support an objectively reasonable apprehension of danger under the
circumstances and not base their decision to conduct a pat search on any perceived individual
characteristics. Reasonable suspicion to conduct a pat search is different than reasonable suspicion
to detain. The scope of the pat search is limited only to a cursory or pat down search of the outer
clothing to locate possible weapons. Once an officer realizes an object is not a weapon, or an object
that cannot be used as a weapon, the officer must move on.
“Reasonable Suspicion to Detain” is a set of specific facts that would lead a reasonable person with
the officer’s same knowledge, training and experience to believe that a crime is occurring, had
occurred in the past, or is about to occur. Reasonable suspicion to detain is also established whenever
there is any violation of law. Reasonable suspicion cannot be based solely on a hunch or instinct.
“Religion” includes “religious creed,” “religious observance,” “religious belief,” and “creed”
which are all aspects of religious belief, observance, and practice, including religious dress and
grooming practices. “Religious dress practice” shall be construed broadly to include the wearing or
carrying of religious clothing, head or face coverings, jewelry, artifacts, and any other item that is
part of an individual observing a religious creed. “Religious grooming practice” shall be construed
broadly to include all forms of head, facial, and body hair that are part of an individual observing a
religious creed.
“Search” refers to an exploration or inspection of a person’s house, body, clothing, property or other
intrusion on a privacy interest by a law enforcement officer for the purpose of discovering evidence
of a crime or a person who is accused of a crime.
“Sex” includes, but is not limited to, a person’s gender. “Gender” means sex, and includes a person’s
gender identity and gender expression.
“Sexual Orientation” means heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality.
“Stop” generally describes “Detentions,” “Investigatory Stops” and “Vehicle Stops.”
“Vehicle stop” refers to the involuntary detention of a vehicle and the person driving the vehicle or
an occupant based on probable cause that the driver has committed a traffic violation, or reasonable
suspicion based on specific and articulable facts that the vehicle or an occupant of the vehicle has
been, is, or is about to be engaged in the commission of a crime.
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“Voluntary or Consensual Contacts” refers to interactions between members and community
members that do not involve coercion. During the course of a voluntary contact, a community
member is free to leave at any time, and is under no obligation to respond to officers’ attempts at
questioning or conversation.
“Voluntary Social Contacts” refers to voluntary contacts between Department members and
community members that are intended to serve no specific investigative purpose. Voluntary social
contacts do not include questioning about possible criminal activity, but may serve other law
enforcement purposes, including building trust and developing rapport with community members.
B. Bias-Based Policing Prohibited
Bias-based policing is strictly prohibited. However, nothing in this policy is intended to prohibit
members from considering protected characteristics in combination with credible, timely and distinct
information connecting a person or people of a specific characteristic to a specific unlawful incident,
or to specific unlawful incidents, specific criminal patterns or specific schemes.
Members may consider relevant personal characteristics of an individual when determining whether to
identify services designed for individuals with those characteristics (e.g., physical disability, behavioral
crisis, homelessness, drug use, etc.)
C. Religious Freedom
Members shall not collect information on a person based on religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity unless permitted under state or federal law regarding criminal
investigations (Government Code § 8310.3).
Members shall not assist federal government authorities (Government Code § 8310.3):
1. In compiling personal information about a person’s religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity.
2. By investigating, enforcing or assisting with the investigation or enforcement of any
requirement that a person register with the federal government based on religious belief,
practice, or affiliation, or national origin or ethnicity.
D. Bias-by-Proxy
Bias-by-proxy can be defined as when an individual calls the police and makes false or ill-informed
claims of misconduct about persons they dislike or are biased against (either implicit or explicit bias).
1. Members should be aware of the potential for biased-based motivations behind calls for
service.
2. Members should always aim to build community trust through all actions they take,
especially in response to bias-based reports.
3. Members should exhibit critical decision making, drawing on their training and awareness of
implicit and explicit bias, to assess whether there is a legitimate law enforcement purpose
before taking action. Absent a legal duty to act, no member is obligated to take any
discretionary action where bias-based motivation is behind a call for service.
4. When taking calls and dispatching, dispatchers should collect enough information necessary
to verify there is a legitimate law enforcement purpose for the call and relay information
without including biased assumptions. For suspected bias-motivated calls, dispatchers may
use discretion to inform the caller that a member will not respond to the call without a
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legitimate basis of there being potentially criminal conduct or when there is no legitimate law
enforcement purpose for responding.
5. If dispatchers assign a member to a call, they should inform the responding member(s) and
the Watch Commander of any concerns with the call for service. The responding member
and/or the Watch Commander may cancel the call at their discretion.
E. Member Responsibility
1. Every member of this Department shall perform their duties in a fair and objective manner
and is responsible for promptly reporting any suspected or known instances of bias-based
policing to a supervisor. Members should, when reasonable to do so, intervene to prevent any
biased-based actions by another member.
2. Members should treat all members of the public with courtesy, professionalism, and respect.
Members will not use harassing, intimidating, derogatory, or prejudiced language,
particularly when related to an individual’s actual or perceived protected characteristics.
3. Members will refer to all members of the public, including LGBT individuals, using the
names, pronouns, and titles of respect appropriate to the individual’s gender identity as
expressed or clarified by the individual. Proof of the person’s gender identity, such as an
identification card, will not be required. Members should refer to attachment Policy &
Procedure 2.42-AA, Definitions related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity for
further guidance.
Members will not inquire about intimate details of an individual’s sexual practices, anatomy,
or gender-related medical history, except as necessary to serve valid, nondiscriminatory law
enforcement objectives.
4. Reasons for Voluntary Contact
a. Officers contacting a person shall be prepared to articulate sufficient reason for the
contact, independent of the protected characteristics of the individual.
b. To the extent that written documentation would otherwise be completed (e.g., arrest
report, Field Interview (FI) card, search), the involved officer should include those facts
giving rise to the officer’s reasonable suspicion or probable cause for the detention, as
applicable.
c. Except for required data-collection RIMS entries, nothing in this policy shall require any
officer to document a voluntary contact or social contact that would not otherwise require
reporting.
5. For Stops/Arrests
a. When conducting stops, officers should introduce themselves to the person being stopped
and provide an explanation for the stop as soon as soon as reasonable and practicable.
b. When reasonable and feasible under attendant circumstances, officers should listen to the
member of the public’s questions or concerns without interruption and directly address
the questions the person may have regarding the stop, including an explanation of options
for citation disposition if relevant.
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c. Officers will ensure that a stop is no longer than necessary to take appropriate action for
the known or suspected offense(s) and should convey the purpose of any reasonable
delays.
d. Officers conducting a stop and/or pat-search shall be prepared to articulate sufficient
reason for the stop and or search, independent of the protected characteristics of the
individual.
e. Officers arresting a person shall be prepared to articulate sufficient reason for the arrest,
independent of the protected characteristics of the individual.
6. Reporting of Stops
a. Unless an exception applies under 11 CCR 999.227, an officer conducting a stop of a
person shall collect the data elements required by 11 CCR 999.226 for every person
stopped and prepare a stop data report in RIMS. When multiple officers conduct a stop,
the officer with the highest level of engagement with the person shall collect the data
elements and prepare the RIMS report (11 CCR 999.227).
b. If multiple agencies are involved in a stop and the Davis Police Department is the primary
agency, the Davis Police Department officer shall collect the data elements and prepare
the stop data report in RIMS (11 CCR 999.227).
c. The stop data report should be completed by the end of the officer’s shift or as soon as
practicable (11 CCR 999.227).
7. No Retaliation/Discipline
No member shall, in any manner, dissuade or impede any person or member from filing a
complaint or reporting misconduct, nor shall any member retaliate, threaten, or harass any
person or member who has alleged or reported misconduct. Any interference or allegation of
retaliatory action by a member shall be immediately reported to the Deputy Chief.
Interference and/or retaliation are grounds for discipline as are breaches of this policy.
F. Supervisor Responsibility
1. Provide leadership, counseling, direction, and support to members as needed.
2. Lead efforts to engage individuals and groups and ensure that members are working actively
to engage the community and increase public trust.
3. Monitor those individuals under their command for any behavior that may conflict with the
purpose of this policy and shall handle any alleged or observed violation of this policy in
accordance with department policy.
4. Review documentation, including video from body-worn cameras as appropriate, of
investigatory stops, detentions, searches, and arrests for completeness, accuracy, and
adherence to law and department policy.
5. Establish and enforce the expectation that members will police in a manner that is consistent
with the U.S. and California Constitutions and federal and state laws, as well as internal
policies (See Rule & Regulation 7.52).
6. Discuss any issues with the involved officer and their supervisor in a timely manner.
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7. Initiate investigations of any actual or alleged violations of this policy (see Policy &
Procedure 1.07-A).
8. Ensure that no retaliatory action is taken against any community member or member of this
Department who discloses information concerning profiling and/or bias-based policing.
9. Identify training and professional development needs and opportunities.
10. Highlight areas where members are engaging appropriately and effectively and use those
examples during roll call and other training opportunities.
G. Administration
Each year, Professional Standards shall review the efforts of the Department to prevent profiling/
bias-based policing and submit an overview, including public concerns and complaints and an
analysis of stop data, to the Police Chief. It should be reviewed to identify any changes in training or
operations that should be made to improve service. Supervisors shall review the annual report and
discuss the results with those they are assigned to supervise.
H. Training
1. Training on fair and objective policing and review of this policy should be conducted as
directed by Professional Standards at least annually.
2. All sworn members and public safety dispatchers of this Department will be scheduled to
attend Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)-approved training on the subjects of
racial and identity profiling, bias-based policing, and procedural justice (i.e., principled
policing).
Pending participation in such POST-approved training and at all times, all members of this
department are encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial and cultural
differences among members of this community in performing their duties.
3. All members will be scheduled to attend initial implicit bias training and regularly scheduled
updated training.
4. Each sworn member of this Department who received initial racial - or bias - based profiling
training will thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course every five years,
or sooner if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing racial, identity and
cultural trends (Penal Code § 13519.4(i)).
5. Dispatchers will receive periodic training in identifying biased calls and on operating
procedures for how biased calls should be dispatched.
I. Reporting to California Department of Justice
1. Professional Standards shall ensure that all data required by the Department of Justice (DOJ)
regarding citizen complaints of racial bias against officers is collected and reported annually
to DOJ (Penal Code § 13012; Penal Code § 13020).
2. The Records & Communications Manager shall ensure that all stop data required by the
Department of Justice is reported annually.
Darren Pytel
Police Chief
6/16
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Revised: 7/17 changed profiling to policing
8/18 stop data required
01/19 changes and definitions
11/19
1/2020 updated
09/20 Religions Freedom added and changes to proxy
Reviewed 12/17, 05/19
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E.2 Alameda County Sheriff’s Office
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NUMBER: 1.19
ALAMEDA COUNTY
RELATED ORDERS:
General Order 5.23
SHERIFF'S OFFICE
ISSUE DATE: February 5, 2004
GENERAL ORDER
REVISION DATE: February 17, 2021
CHAPTER: Law Enforcement Role, SUBJECT: Bias-Based Policing / Racial
Responsibilities, and Relationships Identity Profiling
I. PURPOSE: To ensure that all persons coming into contact with employees of the Agency
receive fair and equitable treatment.
II. POLICY: Agency employees will engage only in those actions that are lawful and based on
probable cause, reasonable suspicion, or some lawful articulable standard.
III. DEFINITION:
A. BIAS-BASED POLICING: The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement
Agencies (CALEA) describes bias-based policing as the unfair selection of individuals for
law enforcement actions based in whole or in part on a trait common to a group, without
actionable intelligence to support consideration of that trait. This includes but is not
limited to race, ethnic background national origin, gender, sexual orientation/identity,
religion, economic status, age, cultural group, or any other identifiable characteristics.
B. CRIMINAL PROFILING: Is the legitimate practice based on articulable behaviors or
characteristics that can be analyzed and evaluated. Deputies must have individualized
suspicion based on articulable behavior or characteristics to stop or detain anyone.
C. PENAL CODE SECTION 13519.4(e) Defines racial or identity profiling as, “for
purposes of this section, is the consideration of, or reliance on, to any degree, actual or
perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, gender identity or
expression, sexual orientation, or mental or physical disability in deciding which person
to subject to a stop or in deciding upon the scope or substance of law enforcement
activities following a stop, except that an officer may consider or rely on characteristics
listed in a specific suspect description. The activities include, but are not limited to,
traffic or pedestrian stops, or actions during a stop, such as asking questions, frisks,
consensual and nonconsensual searches of a person or any property, seizing any
property, removing vehicle occupants during a traffic stop, issuing a citation, and
making an arrest.”
IV. ORDER: All Agency transactions or enforcement will be based on legal and articulable
standards.
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A. Biased-Based Policing in traffic or pedestrian contacts, field contacts, asset seizure and
forfeiture, or any other activities performed by the Sheriff's Office is prohibited.
1. Any member who engages in the practice of bias-based policing will be subject to
disciplinary action, which may include termination from employment.
2. All personnel are required to immediately report incidents or complaints of bias-
based policing to their supervisors.
B. The Law Enforcement Services (LES) Contract Services Division Commander, or his/her
designee, shall conduct an annual review of Agency practices, incidents, and trends and
forward a report to the Sheriff. The review and report shall consist of an analysis of citizen
complaints, internal complaints, and traffic study statistical survey reports. The
commander shall be watchful for indicators that give the appearance of or might cause
citizen concerns of bias-based policing. After having been reviewed by the Sheriff, this
annual report will be reviewed at the Sheriff's Advisory Committee. The LES Contract
Services Division Commander shall be responsible for taking appropriate corrective action
if bias-based policing occurs or gives the appearance or indication of occurring within the
Agency.
C. All personnel transacting business or enforcement activities with the public shall receive
training in accordance with the Commission on Police Officer Standards and Training
(P.O.S.T.), and by the California Code of Regulations (CCR section 1081) Minimum
Standards for Legislatively Mandated Courses.
D. The Commanding Officer of the Regional Training Center (RTC) shall develop and
provide training required by POST and any other training deemed relevant to ensure the
fair and equitable treatment of the public. In an effort to ensure that all aspects of bias-
based policing are addressed and current the RTC will consult with POST, the Sheriff's
Office Training Committee, and the Alameda County Law Enforcement Training
Managers Association (ACLETMA).
E. Additional training will be conducted annually in accordance with CALEA standards.
The annual CALEA required training will be conducted via a training bulletin.
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E.3 Kern County Sheriff’s Office
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Kern County Sheriff’s Office
Policies and Procedures
TITLE: BIAS BASED POLICING NO: J-2300
APPROVED: Donny Youngblood, Sheriff-Coroner
EFFECTIVE: REVIEWED: REVISED: UPDATED:
January 01, 2021 09/16/2020 09/16/2020 09/16/2020
INTRODUCTION
There has been a growing national perception that law enforcement action is often based on racial
stereotypes or "racial profiling." In order to address this perception in California, the State
legislature has enacted statutes mandating additional training for all California law enforcement
officers on "racial, identity, and cultural differences and development of effective, non- combative
methods of carrying out law enforcement duties in a diverse racial, identity and cultural
environment. (See Penal Code Section 13519.4(a). Also see California Penal Code 13519.4(f)
which prohibits racial profiling by law enforcement officers).
The State of California passed Assembly Bill 953 in 2015. AB 953, known as the Racial and
Identity Profiling Act of 2015 (RIPA), requires the reporting of detailed data regarding all stops,
which AB 953 defines as a detention or search, including a consensual search, to the California
Department of Justice. The data elements collected and reported will include but not be limited to
the circumstances surrounding the personal contact and perceived information regarding the
person being contacted.
Discriminatory conduct based on race, religion, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, gender,
gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, or disability while performing any law
enforcement activity is prohibited. All law enforcement contacts and activities, including, but not
limited to, calls for service, investigations, law enforcement-initiated stops or detentions, and
activities following stops or detentions, shall be unbiased and based on legitimate, articulable facts.
All law enforcement action taken shall be consistent with the standards of reasonable suspicion or
probable cause as required by federal and state law.
Failure to comply with this policy is counterproductive to professional law enforcement and is an
act of misconduct, which is subject to discipline. Any employee who becomes aware of biased
policing or any other violation of this policy shall report it in accordance with established policy
and procedure.
DEFINITIONS:
Bias-based policing - An inappropriate reliance on characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity,
national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, economic
status, age, cultural group, disability or affiliation with any non-criminal group (protected
characteristics) as the basis for providing differing law enforcement service or enforcement
(Penal Code § 13519.4).
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Detention means a seizure of a person’s body by an officer that results from physical restraint,
unequivocal verbal commands, or words or conduct by an officer that would result in a reasonable
person believing that he or she is not free to leave or otherwise disregard the officer.
Encounter means a detention or traffic stop where the officer initiates activity based solely on the
officer's own observations or the observations and direction of another officer, rather than on
information provided by dispatch or reported by a member of the public.
Gender Identity means an individual's actual or perceived gender identity, or gender-related
characteristics intrinsically related to an individual's gender or gender-identity, regardless of the
individual's assigned sex at birth.
Location means the address where the Encounter occurred, or the closest address or intersection
thereto.
Officer means a peace officer as defined by Section 830 of the Penal Code, employed by the Kern
County Sheriff’s Office.
Traffic Stop means an interaction between an officer and an individual driving a vehicle, in which
the officer orders the individual to stop the vehicle.
Use of Force means an officer's use of force on an individual that is required to be reported by
department policy section F-0100.
Search means a search of a person’s body or property in the person’s possession or control and
includes a pat-down search of a person’s outer clothing as well as a consensual search.
Stop means any detention by an officer of a person or any officer interaction with a person in
which the officer conducts a search.
Consensual search means any search that occurs when a person gives an officer consent or
permission to search the person or the person’s property. Consent can be given in writing or
verbally or may be implied by conduct.
POLICY
Discriminatory conduct, based on race, religion, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, gender,
gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, or disability while performing any law
enforcement activity is prohibited. All law enforcement contacts and activities, including, but not
limited to, calls for service, investigations, law enforcement-initiated stops or detentions, and
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activities following stops or detentions, shall be unbiased and based on legitimate, articulable facts.
Bias-based policing undermines legitimate law enforcement efforts and may lead to claims of civil
rights violations. Bias-based policing alienates the community, fosters community distrust of law
enforcement, and invites media scrutiny, legislative action and judicial intervention. The Kern
County Sheriff’s Office neither condones nor tolerates the use of bias-based policing.
All law enforcement action taken shall be consistent with the standards of reasonable suspicion or
probable cause as required by federal and state law. Deputies should be familiar with the following
concepts related to bias-based policing:
• Racial or Identity Profiling: the consideration of, or reliance on, to any degree,
actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, gender
identity or expression, sexual orientation, or mental or physical disability in
deciding which persons to subject to a stop or in deciding upon the scope or
substance of law enforcement activities following a stop, except that an officer may
consider or rely on characteristics listed in a specific suspect description. Such
activities include, but are not limited to, traffic or pedestrian stops, or actions taken
during a stop, such as asking questions, frisks, consensual and nonconsensual
searches of a person or any property, seizing any property, removing vehicle
occupants during a traffic stop, issuing a citation, and making an arrest.
• Implicit Bias: the attitudes or stereotypes that affect a person’s understanding,
actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. These biases, which encompass
both favorable and unfavorable assessments, are activated involuntarily and
without an individual’s awareness or intentional control. Implicit biases are
different from known biases that individuals may choose to conceal.
• Bias by Proxy: when an individual calls/contacts the police and makes false or ill-
informed claims of misconduct about persons they dislike or are biased against
based on explicit racial and identity profiling or implicit bias.
When the police act on a request for service based on unlawful bias, they risk perpetuating the
caller’s bias. Sworn and civilian staff should use their critical decision-making skills, drawing upon
their training to assess whether there is criminal conduct.
Encounters with the Public:
Deputies may not use race, religion, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, gender, gender identity,
gender expression, sexual orientation, or disability (to any extent or degree) while conducting any
law enforcement activity, including stops and detentions, except when engaging in the
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investigation of appropriate suspect-specific activity to identify a particular person or group.
Department personnel seeking one or more specific persons who have been identified or described
in part by their race, religion, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, gender
expression, sexual orientation, or disability may rely in part on the specified identifier or
description only in combination with other appropriate identifying factors and may not give the
specified identifier or description undue weight.
If multiple agencies are involved in a stop and the Kern County Sheriff's Office is the primary
agency, the Kern County Sheriff's Office deputy shall collect the data elements and prepare the
stop data report. The primary agency is the agency with investigative jurisdiction based on local,
county, or state law or applicable interagency agreement or memoranda of understanding. If
there is uncertainty as to the primary agency, the agencies shall agree on which agency is the
primary agency for reporting purposes. (11 CCR 999.227).
Circumstances in Which Characteristics of an Individual May Be Considered:
Deputies may not use, to any extent or degree, actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national
origin, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation or gender identity in conducting stops or detentions,
or activities following stops or detentions except when engaging in the investigation of appropriate
suspect specific activity to identify a particular person or group. Department personnel seeking
one or more specific persons who have been identified or described in part by any actual or
perceived characteristic may rely on them in part only in combination with other appropriate
identifying factors. The actual or perceived characteristics should not be given undue weight.
DIRECTIVE A
Data Collection and Reporting:
The following information will be collected for each stop:
• Date/Time/Duration
• Location
• Reason
• Responding to Call for Service? Yes/No
• Actions taken during stop, including, but not limited to:
Whether asked for consent search / Whether consent was provided
o
Whether search took place / Basis for search / Result of search
o
Whether property was seized / Type of property / Basis for seizure
o
Curbside detention, handcuffed/flex-cuffed, firearm pointed at person, firearm
o
discharged or used
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Includes: Action taken based on individual suspicion or personal characteristics
o
during traffic control, crowd control, underage drinking detentions, DUI
checkpoints.
• Result or Disposition (e.g. warning, citation, arrest)
This includes the language of the warning or offense cited/charged
o
• Perceived race/gender/age
This information shall not be requested
o
Vehicle Stops: Only applies to driver, unless actions above are taken for
o
passenger
Optional: LGBT, Limited to no English Fluency, Disability
o
• Officer Information
Years of Experience
o
Type of Assignment: Patrol, Traffic, Narcotics, Investigations, etc.
o
CAD/Badge
o
• Not Reportable/Deputies need not complete a RIPA report based on the following
interactions:
Stops that occur during public safety mass evacuations;
o
Stops that occur during an active shooter incident;
o
Stops or searches that occur during or as a result of routine security screenings
o
required of all persons to enter a building, school or special event, including metal
detector screenings and any secondary searches that result from that screening;
Interactions with passenger(s) of traffic stops who are not the subject of an investigation
o
or enforcement action and who are not searched;
Interactions with the targeted subject(s) of a warrant, search condition, home detention,
o
or house arrest while in their residence; or,
Consensual encounters that do not result in a search.
o
Incidents that occur with a subject who is currently in custody within a
o
custodial facility.
• The following are reportable only if the officer takes specific actions listed under
“Actions taken by officer during stop”:
When officers are executing warrants or search conditions, or on home detention
o
or house arrest assignments, they need only report stops of people in the home who
are not the subject of the warrant, etc. and only if the officer takes any of the
following actions against the person: handcuffs or flex cuffs them; arrests them;
points a firearm at them; discharges or uses a firearm; uses an electronic control
device, impact projectile, baton or other impact weapon, or chemical spray on the
person; or a K-9 canine bit/held the person.
Traffic control of vehicles due to a traffic accident or emergency situation that
o
requires that vehicles are stopped for public safety purposes;
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Any type of crowd control in which pedestrians are made to remain in a location or
o
routed to a different location for public safety purposes;
Interactions during which persons are detained at a residence only so that deputies
o
may check for proof of age for purposes of investigating underage drinking;
Checkpoints or roadblocks in which a deputy detains a person as the result of a
o
blanket regulatory activity or neutral formula that is not based on individualized
suspicion or personal characteristics.
• Stops of students in a K-12 public school are subject to different reporting requirements:
Only the following interactions with students are subject to stop data reporting
o
requirements (SRO Deputies):
(1) an interaction resulting in temporary custody, citation, arrest, permanent
seizure of property as evidence of a criminal offense, or referral to a school
administrator because of suspected criminal activity;
(2) an interaction in which a student is questioned to investigate whether
they committed any violation of law, including offenses listed under
Education Code section 48900 and including truancy; and
(3) any interaction in which an officer takes any of the actions provided
under the category of information entitled “Actions taken by officer during
stop,” excluding “none” and excluding searches applied using a neutral
formula.
The data collected for each stop is the responsibility of a single deputy on scene. The data will be
reported and submitted for supervisorial approval. The Kern County Sheriff’s Office will maintain
all “Stop Data” and prepare an annual report to the California Department of Justice in compliance
with AB 953.
DIRECTIVE B
Failure to comply with this policy is counterproductive to professional law enforcement and is an
act of misconduct, which is subject to discipline. Any employee who becomes aware of biased
policing or any other violation of this policy shall report it in accordance with established policy
and procedure.
DIRECTIVE C
All investigative detentions, temporary detentions, vehicle stops, arrests, searches and seizures of
persons or property by deputies will be based on a standard of reasonable suspicion or probable
cause as required by the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, statutory authority and
prevailing case law. Deputies must be able to articulate specific facts, circumstances and
conclusions which support reasonable suspicion or probable cause for an arrest, vehicle stop or
investigative detention.
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Deputies may take into account as part of a description the race, ethnic background, gender, sexual
orientation, religion, economic status, age and/or culture of a specific suspect(s) based on credible,
reliable, relevant information that links a person to a particular criminal incident or links a specific
series of crimes in an area to a group of individuals.
Except as provided above, no person shall be singled out or otherwise treated
differently on account of his/her race, ethnic background, gender, sexual orientation,
religion, economic status, age and/or culture.
DIRECTIVE D
This policy allows consensual encounters, but officers should apply the principles outlined
below.
In an effort to prevent inappropriate perceptions of biased based law enforcement, deputies shall
utilize the following strategies when involved in any pedestrian contact or vehicle stop:
• Be courteous, polite and professional.
• Introduce yourself by providing your name and agency affiliation. As soon as
practical, explain the reason(s) for the stop, i.e. in vehicle stops, provide this
information before asking the driver for his/her license, registration and proof of
insurance.
• Answer any questions the member of the public may have, including explaining
options for the disposition of a traffic citation, if relevant.
• Ensure that the length of the detention is no longer than necessary to take appropriate
action for the known or suspected offense.
DIRECTIVE E
Training on fair and objective policing and review of this policy shall be conducted as directed
by the Training Section.
• All sworn members of this department will be scheduled to attend Peace Officer
Standards and Training (POST)-approved training on the subject of bias-based
policing.
• Each sworn member of this department who received initial bias-based policing
training will thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course
every five years, or sooner if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with
changing racial, identity and cultural trends (Penal Code § 13519.4(i)).
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E.4 Los Angeles World Airport Police
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5/8.8 Racial Profiling
The City of Los Angeles prohibits discriminatory conduct on the basis of race, color, ethnicity,
national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. This also applies while conducting law
enforcement activities. Police initiated stops or detentions, and activities following stops or
detentions shall be unbiased and based on legitimate, articulable facts, consistent with the
standards of reasonable suspicion or probable cause as required by federal and state law.
Definition
Racial Profiling - Defined as the interdiction, detention, arrest, or other nonconsensual
treatment of an individual based on race, color, ethnicity or national origin.
A. Policy:
Los Angeles World Airports Police officers may not use race, color, ethnicity, or national origin,
to any extent or degree, in conducting stops or detentions, or activities following stops or
detentions, except when engaging in the investigation of appropriate suspect-specific activity to
identify a particular person or group.
LAWA Police seeking one or more specific persons who have been identified or described in
part by their race, color, ethnicity, or national origin, may rely on race, color, ethnicity, or national
origin only in combination with other appropriate identifying factors and may not give race, color,
ethnicity, or national origin undue weight.
Failure to comply with this policy is a violation of an individual’s constitutional rights. It is also
counterproductive to professional law enforcement, amounts to racial profiling, and is
considered to be an act of serious misconduct.
Any employee who becomes aware of racial profiling or any other violation of this policy shall
report it in accordance with established procedures.
B. Training
All sworn personnel shall attend POST mandated training in racial profiling.
C. Policy:
It is the policy of the Los Angeles World Airports Police Division that undocumented resident
status, in itself, is not a matter for police action. It is incumbent upon all employees of the Los
Angeles World Airports Police Division to make a personal commitment to equal enforcement of
the law and service to the community we serve, regardless of resident status.
Procedures:
1. Officers shall not initiate police action with the objective of discovering the resident
status of an individual
2. Notify ICE of any arrest involving an undocumented resident.
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3. A subject of an ICE hold/detainer will not be held in criminal custody once they are
eligible for release.
• All criminal charges against the individual have been dropped or dismissed
• The individual has been acquitted of all criminal charges filed against him or her
• The individual has posted a bond, or
• The individual is otherwise eligible for release under state or local law, or local
policy.
4. Notify the LAPD area detectives, when the individual is booked, they are subject of an
ice hold/detainer.
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E.5 Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
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BIAS-FREE POLICING
GENERAL ORDER #17.12
Adopted: 3/26/2021 Updated: 3/26/2021
Replaces: New Reviewed: 3/26/2021
Number of Pages: 2 Distribution: Unrestricted
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POLICY
The Sheriff's Office is committed to providing services and enforcing laws in a professional, non-
discriminatory, impartial, and equitable manner that keeps both the community and deputies safe
and protected. The intent of this policy is to increase the Sheriff's Office effectiveness as a law
enforcement agency and to build mutual trust and respect with the diverse groups and communities
of Santa Clara County.
It is the policy of the Sheriff's Office to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the law
equally, fairly, objectively, and without discrimination toward any individual or group. The
Sheriff's Office expressly prohibits racial and identity profiling (Pen. Code § 13519.4).
All employees of the Sheriff's Office are prohibited from taking law enforcement actions, including
the use of force, based on actual or perceived personal characteristics, including but not limited to
race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, political affiliation, gender identity or
expression, sexual orientation, mental and or physical disability. All employees of the Sheriff's
Office shall rely on their training and experience when engaging in the investigation of appropriate
suspect specific activity to identify a particular person or group. Personnel must not delay or deny
policing services based on an individual's actual or perceived personally identifying
characteristics. All employees should draw upon their training and use their critical decision-
making skills to assess whether there is criminal conduct and to be aware of personal implicit bias
and bias by proxy when carrying out their duties.
BIAS-BASED POLICING PROHIBITED
Bias-based policing is strictly prohibited. However, nothing in this policy is intended to prohibit a
deputy from considering protected characteristics in combination with credible, timely and distinct
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information connecting a person or people of a specific characteristic to a specific unlawful
incident, or to specific unlawful incidents, specific criminal patterns or specific schemes.
A. DEFINITIONS
Racial or Identity Profiling: The consideration of, or reliance on, to any degree, actual or perceived
race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, political affiliation, gender identity or
expression, sexual orientation, or mental or physical disability in deciding which persons to subject
to a stop or in deciding upon the scope or substance of law enforcement activities following a stop,
except that an officer may consider or rely on characteristics listed in a specific suspect description.
The activities include, but are not limited to, traffic or pedestrian stops, or actions during a stop,
such as asking questions, frisks, consensual and nonconsensual searches of a person or any
property, seizing any property, removing vehicle occupants during a traffic stop, issuing a citation,
and making an arrest.
Bias-Based Policing: conduct by peace officers motivated, implicitly or explicitly, by the deputy's
beliefs about someone based on the person's actual or perceived personal characteristics, i.e., race,
color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or
mental or physical disability.
Explicit Bias: Conscious belief or attitude toward a specific social group or person that may lead
an individual to act in discriminatory ways.
Implicit Bias: the attitudes or stereotypes that affect a person's understanding, actions, and
decisions in an unconscious manner. These biases, which encompass both favorable and
unfavorable assessments, are activated involuntarily and without an individual's awareness or
intentional control. Implicit biases are different from known biases that individuals may choose to
conceal.
Bias by Proxy: when an individual calls/contacts the police and makes false or ill-informed
claims of misconduct about persons they dislike or are biased against based on explicit racial and
identity profiling or implicit bias. When the police act on a request for service based in unlawful
bias, they risk perpetuating the caller's bias. Sworn and civilian staff should use their critical
decision-making skills, drawing upon their training to assess whether there is criminal conduct.
B. CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT
Employees shall not collect information from a person based on religious belief, practice,
affiliation, national origin, or ethnicity unless permitted under state or federal law (Government
Code § 8310.3).
Employees shall also not assist federal government authorities (Government Code § 8310.3):
1. In compiling personal information about a person's religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin, or ethnicity.
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2. By investigating, enforcing, or assisting with the investigation or enforcement of any
requirement that a person register with the federal government based on religious belief,
practice, or affiliation, or national origin or ethnicity.
C. THE RACIAL AND IDENTITY PROFILING ACT (RIPA) / STOP DATA
Unless an exception applies under 11 CCR 999.227, a deputy conducting a stop of a person shall
collect the data elements required by 11 CCR 999.226 for every person stopped and prepare a
stop data report.
When multiple deputies conduct a stop, the deputy with the highest level of engagement with the
person shall collect the data elements and prepare the report (11 CCR 999.227). If multiple
agencies are involved in a stop and the Sheriff's Office is the primary agency, the Sheriff's Office
deputy shall collect the data elements and prepare the stop data report (11 CCR 999.227).
The stop data report should be completed by the end of the deputy's shift or as soon as
practicable. It must; however, be submitted within 24 hours of the stop (11 CCR 999.227).
D. EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITIES
Every employee of the Sheriff's Office shall perform his/her duties in a fair, impartial, and
objective manner, and is responsible for promptly reporting any suspected or known instances of
bias-based policing to a supervisor. Employees should, when reasonable to do so, intervene to
prevent any biased-based actions by another employee of the Sheriff's Office.
E. TRAINING
Training on fair and objective policing and review of this policy shall be conducted by the
Training and Compliance Unit and supplemented with periodic roll-call training and discussions
facilitated by supervisors.
1. All sworn personnel will be scheduled to attend Peace Officer Standards and Training
(POST) approved training about bias-based policing, implicit bias, and bias by proxy.
2. Each sworn member of this department who received initial bias-based policing training
will thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course every five years, or
sooner if deemed necessary, to keep current with changing racial, identity and cultural
trends (Penal Code § 13519.4(i)).
F. REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Lieutenant of the Professional Compliance Unit or his/her designee shall ensure that all data
required by the California Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against
officers is collected and provided to the DOJ as required for reporting (Penal Code § 13012; Penal
Code §13020).
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Employees shall ensure that stop data reports are provided for required annual reporting to DOJ
(Government Code § 12525.5). The Sheriff's Office Records Divisions shall be responsible for
releasing the annual data to the DOJ consistent with existing record release procedures.
LAURIE SMITH
SHERIFF
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E.6 Stockton Police Department
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E.7 Anaheim Police Department
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Policy Anaheim Police Department
401 Anaheim PD Policy Manual
Bias-Based Policing
401.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This policy provides guidance to department members that affirms the Anaheim Police
Department's commitment to policing that is fair and objective.
Nothing in this policy prohibits the use of specified characteristics in law enforcement activities
designed to strengthen the department's relationship with its diverse communities (e.g., cultural
and ethnicity awareness training, youth programs, community group outreach, partnerships).
401.1.1 DEFINITIONS
Definitions related to this policy include:
Bias-based policing - An inappropriate reliance on characteristics such as race, ethnicity,
national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, economic
status, age, cultural group, disability or affiliation with any non-criminal group (protected
characteristics) as the basis for providing differing law enforcement service or enforcement (Penal
Code § 13519.4).
401.2 POLICY
The Anaheim Police Department is committed to providing law enforcement services to the
community with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences of those served. It is the
policy of this department to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the law equally,
fairly, objectively and without discrimination toward any individual or group.
401.3 BIAS-BASED POLICING PROHIBITED
Bias-based policing is strictly prohibited.
However, nothing in this policy is intended to prohibit an officer from considering protected
characteristics in combination with credible, timely and distinct information connecting a person or
people of a specific characteristic to a specific unlawful incident, or to specific unlawful incidents,
specific criminal patterns or specific schemes.
401.3.1 CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT
Members shall not collect information from a person based on religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity unless permitted under state or federal law (Government Code §
8310.3).
Members shall not assist federal government authorities (Government Code § 8310.3):
(a) In compiling personal information about a person’s religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity.
(b) By investigating, enforcing or assisting with the investigation or enforcement of any
requirement that a person register with the federal government based on religious
belief, practice, or affiliation, or national origin or ethnicity.
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401.4 MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES
Every member of this department shall perform his/her duties in a fair and objective manner and
is responsible for promptly reporting any suspected or known instances of bias-based policing to
a supervisor. Members should, when reasonable to do so, intervene to prevent any biased-based
actions by another member.
401.4.1 REASON FOR CONTACT
Officers contacting a person shall be prepared to articulate sufficient reason for the contact,
independent of the protected characteristics of the individual.
To the extent that written documentation would otherwise be completed (e.g., arrest report, field
interview (FI) card), the involved officer should include those facts giving rise to the contact, as
applicable.
Except for required data-collection forms or methods, nothing in this policy shall require any officer
to document a contact that would not otherwise require reporting.
401.4.2 REPORTING OF STOPS
The reporting requirements under this section will take effect on January 1, 2021.
Unless an exception applies under 11 CCR 999.227, an officer conducting a stop of a person
shall collect the data elements required by 11 CCR 999.226 for every person stopped and prepare
a stop data report. When multiple officers conduct a stop, the officer with the highest level of
engagement with the person shall collect the data elements and prepare the report (11 CCR
999.227).
If multiple agencies are involved in a stop and the Anaheim Police Department is the primary
agency, the Anaheim Police Department officer shall collect the data elements and prepare the
stop data report (11 CCR 999.227).
The stop data report should be completed by the end of the officer’s shift or as soon as practicable
(11 CCR 999.227).
401.5 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervisors should monitor those individuals under their command for compliance with this policy
and shall handle any alleged or observed violations in accordance with the Personnel Complaints
Policy.
(a) Supervisors should discuss any issues with the involved officer and his/her supervisor
in a timely manner.
1. Supervisors should document these discussions, in the prescribed manner.
(b) Supervisors should periodically review BWC recordings, portable audio/video
recordings, Mobile Digital Computer (MDC) data and any other available resource
used to document contact between officers and the public to ensure compliance with
the policy.
1. Supervisors should document these periodic reviews.
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2. Recordings or data that capture a potential instance of bias-based policing
should be appropriately retained for administrative investigation purposes.
(c) Supervisors shall initiate investigations of any actual or alleged violations of this policy.
(d) Supervisors should take prompt and reasonable steps to address any retaliatory action
taken against any member of this department who discloses information concerning
bias-based policing.
401.6 TRAINING
Training on fair and objective policing and review of this policy should be conducted as directed
by the Training Detail.
(a) All sworn members of this department will be scheduled to attend Peace Officer
Standards and Training (POST)-approved training on the subject of bias-based
policing.
(b) Pending participation in such POST-approved training and at all times, all members
of this department are encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial
and cultural differences among members of this community.
(c) Each sworn member of this department who received initial bias-based policing
training will thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course every
five years, or sooner if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing
racial, identity and cultural trends (Penal Code § 13519.4(i)).
401.7 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The reporting requirements under this section will take effect on January 1, 2021.
The Internal Affairs Detail Manager shall ensure that all data required by the California Department
of Justice (DOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against officers is collected and provided
to the Records Manager for required reporting to the DOJ (Penal Code § 13012; Penal Code §
13020). See the Records Section Policy.
Supervisors should ensure that data stop reports are provided to the Records Manager for required
annual reporting to the DOJ (Government Code § 12525.5) (See Records Bureau Policy).
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Policy Berkeley Police Department
401 Law Enforcement Services Manual
Fair and Impartial Policing
401.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This policy is intended to reaffirm the commitment of the Berkeley Police Department to fair and
impartial policing; to clarify the circumstances in which officers can consider race, ethnicity and other
demographics; and to reinforce procedures that serve to assure the public that we are providing
service and enforcing laws in an equitable way.
California Penal Code Section 13519.4(e) prohibits racial profiling by law enforcement officers. This
policy explicitly prohibits racial profiling and other biased policing. This policy describes the limited
circumstances in which members can consider race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, religion,
sexual orientation/identity or socio-economic status in making law enforcement decisions.
401.1.1 DEFINITIONS
Definitions related to this policy include:
Bias-based policing -Any police-initiated action that relies on the race, ethnicity or national origin
rather than the behavior of an individual or information that leads the police to a particular individual
who has been identified as being engaged in criminal activity.
401.2 POLICY
Investigative detentions, traffic stops, arrests, searches and property seizures by officers will be
based on a standard of reasonable suspicion or probable cause. Officers must be able to articulate
specific facts and circumstances that support reasonable suspicion or probable cause.
Officers shall not consider race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation/
identity or socio-economic status in establishing either reasonable suspicion or probable cause,
or when carrying out other law enforcement activities except when officers are:
(a) Seeking specific person(s) who have been described in part by any of the above listed
characteristics, or
(b) The person(s) are being sought for a specific law enforcement purpose.
Discrimination or harassment based on a trait or class described above is considered a "serious
allegation" of misconduct.
401.3 RESPONSIBILITY TO REPORT AND TAKE CORRECTIVE ACTION
Employees who become aware of another employee engaging in biased policing shall adhere to
reporting procedures set forth in the Discriminatory Harassment Policy.
A supervisor or command officer who becomes aware of biased policing shall adhere to notification
and administrative procedures set forth in the Personnel Complaints Policy.
All reports of biased policing shall be investigated in accordance with the Personnel Complaints
Policy.
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401.4 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Chief of Police or the authorized designee shall ensure that all data required by the California
Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against officers is collected and
reported annually to the DOJ (Penal Code § 13012; Penal Code § 13020).
401.4.1 DEMOGRAPHIC DATA PROCEDURES
All sworn officers shall provide demographic statistical data once for each individual as listed below:
(a) All vehicle and bicycle detentions.
(b) All pedestrian detentions
(c) Anytime anyone is detained, regardless of the cause
(d) Anytime anyone is searched regardless of the cause.
Officers shall provide demographic statistical data pursuant to the requirements of the RIPA statute,
AB 953.
401.5 ADMINISTRATION
Each year, the Operations Division Captain shall review the efforts of the Department to prevent
racial or biased based profiling and submit an overview, including public concerns and complaints,
to the Chief of Police.
The annual report should not contain any identifying information about any specific complaint,
member of the public or officers. It should be reviewed by the Chief of Police to identify any changes
in training or operations that should be made to improve service.
Supervisors should review the annual report and discuss the results with those they are assigned
to supervise.
401.6 TRAINING
Training on racial or bias-based profiling and review of this policy should be conducted as directed
by the Personnel and Training Bureau.
(a) All sworn members of this department will be scheduled to attend Peace Officer
Standards and Training (POST)-approved training on the subject of racial or bias-
based profiling.
(b) Pending participation in such POST-approved training and at all times, all members
of this department are encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial
and cultural differences among members of this community.
(c) Each sworn member of this department who received initial racial or bias-based
profiling training will thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course
every five years, or sooner if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing
racial, identity and cultural trends (Penal Code§ 13519.4(i)).
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E.9 Cotati Police Department
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Policy Cotati Police Department
402 Cotati PD Policy Manual
Bias-Based Policing
402.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This policy provides guidance to department members that affirms the Cotati Police Department's
commitment to policing that is fair and objective.
Nothing in this policy prohibits the use of specified characteristics in law enforcement activities
designed to strengthen the department's relationship with its diverse communities (e.g., cultural
and ethnicity awareness training, youth programs, community group outreach, partnerships).
402.1.1 DEFINITIONS
Definitions related to this policy include:
Bias-based policing - An inappropriate reliance on actual or perceived characteristics such
as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
economic status, age, cultural group, disability, or affiliation with any non-criminal group
(protected characteristics) as the basis for providing differing law enforcement service or
enforcement (Penal Code § 13519.4).
402.2 POLICY
The Cotati Police Department is committed to providing law enforcement services to the
community with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences of those served. It is the
policy of this department to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the law equally,
fairly, objectively and without discrimination toward any individual or group.
402.3 BIAS-BASED POLICING PROHIBITED
Bias-based policing is strictly prohibited.
However, nothing in this policy is intended to prohibit an officer from considering protected
characteristics in combination with credible, timely and distinct information connecting a person or
people of a specific characteristic to a specific unlawful incident, or to specific unlawful incidents,
specific criminal patterns or specific schemes.
402.3.1 CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT
Members shall not collect information from a person based on religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity unless permitted under state or federal law (Government Code §
8310.3).
Members shall not assist federal government authorities (Government Code § 8310.3):
(a) In compiling personal information about a person’s religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity.
(b) By investigating, enforcing or assisting with the investigation or enforcement of any
requirement that a person register with the federal government based on religious
belief, practice, or affiliation, or national origin or ethnicity.
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402.4 MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES
Every member of this department shall perform his/her duties in a fair and objective manner and
is responsible for promptly reporting any suspected or known instances of bias-based policing to
a supervisor. Members should, when reasonable to do so, intervene to prevent any biased-based
actions by another member.
402.4.1 REASON FOR CONTACT
Officers contacting a person shall be prepared to articulate sufficient reason for the contact,
independent of the protected characteristics of the individual.
To the extent that written documentation would otherwise be completed (e.g., arrest report, field
interview (FI) card), the involved officer should include those facts giving rise to the contact, as
applicable.
Except for required data-collection forms or methods, nothing in this policy shall require any officer
to document a contact that would not otherwise require reporting.
402.5 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervisors should monitor those individuals under their command for compliance with this policy
and shall handle any alleged or observed violations in accordance with the Personnel Complaints
Policy.
(a) Supervisors should discuss any issues with the involved officer and his/her supervisor
in a timely manner.
1. Supervisors should document these discussions, in the prescribed manner.
(b) Supervisors should periodically review MAV recordings, portable audio/video
recordings, Mobile Digital Computer (MDC) data and any other available resource
used to document contact between officers and the public to ensure compliance with
the policy.
1. Supervisors should document these periodic reviews.
2. Recordings or data that capture a potential instance of bias-based policing
should be appropriately retained for administrative investigation purposes.
(c) Supervisors shall initiate investigations of any actual or alleged violations of this policy.
(d) Supervisors should take prompt and reasonable steps to address any retaliatory action
taken against any member of this department who discloses information concerning
bias-based policing.
402.6 ADMINISTRATION
Each year, the Operations Sergeant should review the efforts of the Department to provide fair
and objective policing and submit an annual report, including public concerns and complaints, to
the Chief of Police.
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The annual report should not contain any identifying information about any specific complaint,
member of the public or officers. It should be reviewed by the Chief of Police to identify any
changes in training or operations that should be made to improve service.
Supervisors should review the annual report and discuss the results with those they are assigned
to supervise.
402.7 TRAINING
Training on fair and objective policing and review of this policy should be conducted as directed
by the Training.
(a) All sworn members of this department will be scheduled to attend Peace Officer
Standards and Training (POST)-approved training on the subject of bias-based
policing.
(b) Pending participation in such POST-approved training and at all times, all members
of this department are encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial
and cultural differences among members of this community.
(c) Each sworn member of this department who received initial bias-based policing
training will thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course every
five years, or sooner if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing
racial, identity and cultural trends (Penal Code § 13519.4(i)).
402.8 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Lieutenant Manager shall ensure that all data required by the California Department of Justice
(DOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against officers is collected and provided to the
Lieutenant for required reporting to the DOJ (Penal Code § 13012; Penal Code § 13020). See the
Records Bureau Policy.
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E.10 Sonoma State University Police Department
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Policy Sonoma State University Police Department
401 POLICIES
Bias-Based Policing
401.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This policy provides guidance to department members that affirms the Sonoma State University
Police Department's commitment to policing that is fair and objective.
Nothing in this policy prohibits the use of specified characteristics in law enforcement activities
designed to strengthen the department's relationship with its diverse communities (e.g., cultural
and ethnicity awareness training, youth programs, community group outreach, partnerships).
401.1.1 DEFINITIONS
Definitions related to this policy include:
Bias-based policing - An inappropriate reliance on actual or perceived characteristics such
as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
economic status, age, cultural group, disability, or affiliation with any non-criminal group
(protected characteristics) as the basis for providing differing law enforcement service or
enforcement (Penal Code § 13519.4).
401.2 POLICY
The Sonoma State University Police Department is committed to providing law enforcement
services to the community with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences of those
served. It is the policy of this department to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the
law equally, fairly, objectively and without discrimination toward any individual or group.
401.3 BIAS-BASED POLICING PROHIBITED
Bias-based policing is strictly prohibited.
However, nothing in this policy is intended to prohibit an officer from considering protected
characteristics in combination with credible, timely and distinct information connecting a person or
people of a specific characteristic to a specific unlawful incident, or to specific unlawful incidents,
specific criminal patterns or specific schemes.
401.3.1 CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT
Members shall not collect information from a person based on religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity unless permitted under state or federal law (Government Code §
8310.3).
Members shall not assist federal government authorities (Government Code § 8310.3):
(a) In compiling personal information about a person’s religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity.
(b) By investigating, enforcing or assisting with the investigation or enforcement of any
requirement that a person register with the federal government based on religious
belief, practice, or affiliation, or national origin or ethnicity.
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401.4 MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES
Every member of this department shall perform his/her duties in a fair and objective manner and
is responsible for promptly reporting any suspected or known instances of bias-based policing to
a supervisor. Members should, when reasonable to do so, intervene to prevent any biased-based
actions by another member.
401.4.1 REASON FOR CONTACT
Officers contacting a person shall be prepared to articulate sufficient reason for the contact,
independent of the protected characteristics of the individual.
To the extent that written documentation would otherwise be completed (e.g., arrest report, field
interview (FI) card), the involved officer should include those facts giving rise to the contact, as
applicable.
Except for required data-collection forms or methods, nothing in this policy shall require any officer
to document a contact that would not otherwise require reporting.
401.4.2 REPORTING OF STOPS
Unless an exception applies under 11 CCR 999.227, an officer conducting a stop of a person
shall collect the data elements required by 11 CCR 999.226 for every person stopped and prepare
a stop data report. When multiple officers conduct a stop, the officer with the highest level of
engagement with the person shall collect the data elements and prepare the report (11 CCR
999.227).
If multiple agencies are involved in a stop and the Sonoma State University Police Department is
the primary agency, the Sonoma State University Police Department officer shall collect the data
elements and prepare the stop data report (11 CCR 999.227).
The stop data report should be completed by the end of the officer’s shift or as soon as practicable
(11 CCR 999.227).
401.5 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervisors should monitor those individuals under their command for compliance with this policy
and shall handle any alleged or observed violations in accordance with the Personnel Complaints
Policy.
(a) Supervisors should discuss any issues with the involved officer and his/her supervisor
in a timely manner.
1. Supervisors should document these discussions, in the prescribed manner.
(b) Supervisors should periodically review MAV recordings, portable audio/video
recordings, Mobile Digital Computer (MDC) data and any other available resource
used to document contact between officers and the public to ensure compliance with
the policy.
1. Supervisors should document these periodic reviews.
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2. Recordings or data that capture a potential instance of bias-based policing
should be appropriately retained for administrative investigation purposes.
(c) Supervisors shall initiate investigations of any actual or alleged violations of this policy.
(d) Supervisors should take prompt and reasonable steps to address any retaliatory action
taken against any member of this department who discloses information concerning
bias-based policing.
401.6 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Chief of Police or designee Manager shall ensure that all data required by the California
Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against officers is collected and
provided to the Lieutenant for required reporting to the DOJ (Penal Code § 13012; Penal Code
§ 13020). See the Records Section Policy.
Supervisors should ensure that data stop reports are provided to the Lieutenant for required annual
reporting to the DOJ (Government Code § 12525.5) (See Records Bureau Policy).
401.7 ADMINISTRATION
Each year, the Patrol Lieutenant should review the efforts of the Department to provide fair and
objective policing and submit an annual report, including public concerns and complaints, to the
Chief of Police.
The annual report should not contain any identifying information about any specific complaint,
member of the public or officers. It should be reviewed by the Chief of Police to identify any
changes in training or operations that should be made to improve service.
Supervisors should review the annual report and discuss the results with those they are assigned
to supervise.
401.8 TRAINING
Training on fair and objective policing and review of this policy should be conducted as directed
by the Training Section.
(a) All sworn members of this department will be scheduled to attend Peace Officer
Standards and Training (POST)-approved training on the subject of bias-based
policing.
(b) Pending participation in such POST-approved training and at all times, all members
of this department are encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial
and cultural differences among members of this community.
(c) Each sworn member of this department who received initial bias-based policing
training will thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course every
five years, or sooner if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing
racial, identity and cultural trends (Penal Code § 13519.4(i)).
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Policy Culver City Police Department
402 Culver City PD Policy Manual
Bias-Based Policing
402.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This policy provides guidance to department members that affirms the Culver City Police
Department's commitment to policing that is fair and objective.
Nothing in this policy prohibits the use of specified characteristics in law enforcement activities
designed to strengthen the department's relationship with its diverse communities (e.g., cultural
and ethnicity awareness training, youth programs, community group outreach, partnerships).
402.1.1 DEFINITIONS
Definitions related to this policy include:
Bias-based policing - An inappropriate reliance on actual or perceived characteristics such
as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
economic status, age, cultural group, disability, or affiliation with any non-criminal group
(protected characteristics) as the basis for providing differing law enforcement service or
enforcement (Penal Code § 13519.4).
402.2 POLICY
The Culver City Police Department is committed to providing law enforcement services to the
community with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences of those served. It is the
policy of this department to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the law equally,
fairly, objectively and without discrimination toward any individual or group.
402.3 BIAS-BASED POLICING PROHIBITED
Bias-based policing is strictly prohibited.
However, nothing in this policy is intended to prohibit an officer from considering protected
characteristics in combination with credible, timely and distinct information connecting a person or
people of a specific characteristic to a specific unlawful incident, or to specific unlawful incidents,
specific criminal patterns or specific schemes.
402.3.1 CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT
Members shall not collect information from a person based on religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity unless permitted under state or federal law (Government Code §
8310.3).
Members shall not assist federal government authorities (Government Code § 8310.3):
(a) In compiling personal information about a person’s religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity.
(b) By investigating, enforcing or assisting with the investigation or enforcement of any
requirement that a person register with the federal government based on religious
belief, practice, or affiliation, or national origin or ethnicity.
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402.4 MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES
Every member of this department shall perform his/her duties in a fair and objective manner and
is responsible for promptly reporting any suspected or known instances of bias-based policing to
a supervisor. Members should, when reasonable to do so, intervene to prevent any biased-based
actions by another member.
402.4.1 REPORTING OF STOPS
In accordance with California Government Code section 12525.5(a)(2), the Culver City Police
Department will begin reporting traffic stop data annually to the California Attorney General no
later than April 1st, 2023.
Unless an exception applies under 11 CCR 999.227, an officer conducting a stop of a person
shall collect the data elements required by 11 CCR 999.226 for every person stopped and prepare
a stop data report. When multiple officers conduct a stop, the officer with the highest level of
engagement with the person shall collect the data elements and prepare the report (11 CCR
999.227).
If multiple agencies are involved in a stop and the Culver City Police Department is the primary
agency, the Culver City Police Department officer shall collect the data elements and prepare the
stop data report (11 CCR 999.227).
The stop data report should be completed by the end of the officer’s shift or as soon as practicable
(11 CCR 999.227).
402.5 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervisors should monitor those individuals under their command for compliance with this policy
and shall handle any alleged or observed violations in accordance with the Personnel Complaints
Policy.
(a) Supervisors should discuss any issues with the involved officer and his/her supervisor
in a timely manner.
1. Supervisors should document these discussions, in the prescribed manner.
(b) Supervisors should periodically review MAV recordings, portable audio/video
recordings, Mobile Digital Computer (MDC) data and any other available resource
used to document contact between officers and the public to ensure compliance with
the policy.
1. Supervisors should document these periodic reviews.
2. Recordings or data that capture a potential instance of bias-based policing
should be appropriately retained for administrative investigation purposes.
(c) Supervisors shall initiate investigations of any actual or alleged violations of this policy.
(d) Supervisors should take prompt and reasonable steps to address any retaliatory action
taken against any member of this department who discloses information concerning
bias-based policing.
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402.6 TRAINING
Training on fair and objective policing and review of this policy should be conducted as directed
by the Personnel and Training.
(a) All sworn members of this department will attend Peace Officer Standards and
Training (POST)-approved training on the subject of bias-based policing.
(b) Pending participation in such POST-approved training and at all times, all members
of this department are encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial
and cultural differences among members of this community.
(c) Each sworn member of this department who received initial bias-based policing
training will thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course every
five years, or sooner if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing
racial, identity and cultural trends (Penal Code § 13519.4(i)).
402.7 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Professional Standards Unit Manager shall ensure that all data required by the California
Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against officers is collected and
provided to the Records Supervisor for required reporting to the DOJ (Penal Code § 13012; Penal
Code § 13020). See the Records Section Policy.
Supervisors should ensure that data stop reports are provided to the Records Supervisor for
required annual reporting to the DOJ (Government Code § 12525.5) (See Records Bureau Policy).
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1.e Supervisors should document these periodic reviews.e
2.e Recordings or data that capture a potential instance of bias.based policinge
should be appropriate ly retained for administrative investigation purposes.e
(c} Superv
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sors shall initiate investigations of any actual or alleged violations of this policy.e
{d) SupeN i sors should take prompt and reasonable steps to address any retaliatory actione
taken against any member of this office who discioses information concerning bas·e
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base<! policing.
401.6 ADMINISTRATION
Each year. the Training Unit Commander should review the efforts of the Office to provide fair
and objective policing and submit an annual report. induding public concerns and complaints, 10
the Sheriff.
The annual report should not contain any identifying inrormation aboul any specific complaint,
member of the publc or deputies. ti should be revlewe<I by !he Sheriff to identify any changes ine
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training or operations that should be made to improve service.
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Supervisors should review the annual report and dscuss the results with those they are assigned
to supervise.
401.7 TRAINING
Training on fair and objective polteing and review of this policy should be conducted as directed
by the Training Unit
(a} AJI sworn members of this office will be scheduled to attend Peace Officer Standards
and Training (POST)-approved training on the subject of bias-based policing.
{b) Pending participation in such POST-approved training and at all times, all members
of this office are encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial and
ct.1lturat differences among members of this community.
(c)e Each sworn member of this office who received initial bias-based policing lraining wille
thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course eve,y five years, ore
sooner if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing racial. identity ande
cultural trends (Penal Code§ 13519.4(i)).e
401.8 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Internal Affairs Unit Manager shall ensure that all data required by the California Department
of Justice (OOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against deputies ts collected and provided
to the Records Unit Commander for required reporting to the DOJ (Penal Code § 13012; Pena
le
Code§ 13020). See the Records Un
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t Polley.e
Supervisors should ensure !hat data stop reports are provide<! to the Records Unit Commander for
required annual reporting to the DOJ (Government Code§ 12525.5) (See Records Bureau Polley).
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Policy Petaluma Police Department
402 Policy Manual
Bias-Based Policing
402.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This policy provides guidance to department members that affirms the Petaluma Police
Department's commitment to policing that is fair and objective.
Nothing in this policy prohibits the use of specified characteristics in law enforcement activities
designed to strengthen the department's relationship with its diverse communities (e.g., cultural
and ethnicity awareness training, youth programs, community group outreach, partnerships).
402.1.1 DEFINITIONS
Definitions related to this policy include:
Bias-based policing - An inappropriate reliance on actual or perceived characteristics such
as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
economic status, age, cultural group, disability, or affiliation with any non-criminal group
(protected characteristics) as the basis for providing differing law enforcement service or
enforcement (Penal Code § 13519.4).
402.2 POLICY
The Petaluma Police Department is committed to providing law enforcement services to the
community with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences of those served. It is the
policy of this department to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the law equally,
fairly, objectively and without discrimination toward any individual or group.
402.3 BIAS-BASED POLICING PROHIBITED
Bias-based policing is strictly prohibited.
However, nothing in this policy is intended to prohibit an officer from considering protected
characteristics in combination with credible, timely and distinct information connecting a person or
people of a specific characteristic to a specific unlawful incident, or to specific unlawful incidents,
specific criminal patterns or specific schemes.
402.3.1 CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT
Members shall not collect information from a person based on religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity unless permitted under state or federal law (Government Code §
8310.3).
Members shall not assist federal government authorities (Government Code § 8310.3):
(a) In compiling personal information about a person’s religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity.
(b) By investigating, enforcing or assisting with the investigation or enforcement of any
requirement that a person register with the federal government based on religious
belief, practice, or affiliation, or national origin or ethnicity.
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402.4 MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES
Every member of this department shall perform his/her duties in a fair and objective manner and
is responsible for promptly reporting any suspected or known instances of bias-based policing to
a supervisor. Members should, when reasonable to do so, intervene to prevent any biased-based
actions by another member.
402.4.1 REASON FOR CONTACT
Officers contacting a person shall be prepared to articulate sufficient reason for the contact,
independent of the protected characteristics of the individual.
To the extent that written documentation would otherwise be completed (e.g., arrest report, field
interview (FI) card), the involved officer should include those facts giving rise to the contact, as
applicable.
Except for required data-collection forms or methods, nothing in this policy shall require any officer
to document a contact that would not otherwise require reporting.
402.4.2 REPORTING OF STOPS
Unless an exception applies under 11 CCR 999.227, an officer conducting a stop of a person
shall collect the data elements required by 11 CCR 999.226 for every person stopped and prepare
a stop data report. When multiple officers conduct a stop, the officer with the highest level of
engagement with the person shall collect the data elements and prepare the report (11 CCR
999.227).
If multiple agencies are involved in a stop and the Petaluma Police Department is the primary
agency, the Petaluma Police Department officer shall collect the data elements and prepare the
stop data report (11 CCR 999.227).
The stop data report should be completed by the end of the officer’s shift or as soon as practicable
(11 CCR 999.227).
402.5 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervisors should monitor those individuals under their command for compliance with this policy
and shall handle any alleged or observed violations in accordance with the Personnel Complaints
Policy.
(a) Supervisors should discuss any issues with the involved officer and his/her supervisor
in a timely manner.
1. Supervisors should document these discussions, in the prescribed manner.
(b) Supervisors should periodically review MAV recordings, portable audio/video
recordings, Mobile Data Computer (MDC) data and any other available resource used
to document contact between officers and the public to ensure compliance with the
policy.
1. Supervisors should document these periodic reviews.
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2. Recordings or data that capture a potential instance of bias-based policing
should be appropriately retained for administrative investigation purposes.
(c) Supervisors shall initiate investigations of any actual or alleged violations of this policy.
(d) Supervisors should take prompt and reasonable steps to address any retaliatory action
taken against any member of this department who discloses information concerning
bias-based policing.
402.6 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Professional Standards Unit Manager shall ensure that all data required by the California
Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against officers is collected and
provided to the Records Supervisor for required reporting to the DOJ (Penal Code § 13012; Penal
Code § 13020). See the Records Team Policy.
Supervisors should ensure that data stop reports are provided to the Records Supervisor for
required annual reporting to the DOJ (Government Code § 12525.5) (See Records Bureau Policy).
402.7 ADMINISTRATION
Each year, the Patrol Division Commander should review the efforts of the Department to provide
fair and objective policing and submit an annual report, including public concerns and complaints,
to the Chief of Police.
The annual report should not contain any identifying information about any specific complaint,
member of the public or officers. It should be reviewed by the Chief of Police to identify any
changes in training or operations that should be made to improve service.
Supervisors should review the annual report and discuss the results with those they are assigned
to supervise.
402.8 TRAINING
Training on fair and objective policing and review of this policy should be conducted as directed
by the Training Section.
(a) All sworn members of this department will be scheduled to attend Peace Officer
Standards and Training (POST)-approved training on the subject of bias-based
policing.
(b) Pending participation in such POST-approved training and at all times, all members
of this department are encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial
and cultural differences among members of this community.
(c) Each sworn member of this department who received initial bias-based policing
training will thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course every
five years, or sooner if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing
racial, identity and cultural trends (Penal Code § 13519.4(i)).
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Policy Riverside Police Department
401 Riverside PD Policy Manual
Racial- or Bias-Based Profiling
401.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This policy provides guidance to department members and establishes appropriate controls to
ensure that members of the Riverside Police Department do not engage in racial- or bias-based
profiling or violate any related laws while serving the community.
401.1.1 DEFINITIONS
Definitions related to this policy include:
Racial- or bias-based profiling - An inappropriate reliance on factors such as race, ethnicity,
national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, economic status, age, cultural group, disability or
affiliation with any other similar identifiable group as a factor in deciding whether to take law
enforcement action or to provide service. This includes gender identity or expression (Penal Code
§ 13519.4).
401.2 POLICY
The Riverside Police Department is committed to providing law enforcement services to the
community with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences of those served. It is the
policy of this department to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the law equally, fairly
and without discrimination toward any individual or group.
Race, ethnicity or nationality, religion, sex, sexual orientation, economic status, age, cultural
group, disability or affiliation with any other similar identifiable group shall not be used as the basis
for providing differing levels of law enforcement service or the enforcement of the law.
401.3 RACIAL- OR BIAS-BASED PROFILING PROHIBITED
Racial- or bias-based profiling is strictly prohibited. However, nothing in this policy is intended
to prohibit an officer from considering factors such as race or ethnicity in combination with other
legitimate factors to establish reasonable suspicion or probable cause (e.g., suspect description
is limited to a specific race or group).
401.4 MEMBER RESPONSIBILITY
Every member of this department shall perform his/her duties in a fair and objective manner and
is responsible for promptly reporting any known instances of racial- or bias-based profiling to a
supervisor.
401.4.1 REASON FOR DETENTION
Officers detaining a person shall be prepared to articulate sufficient reasonable suspicion to justify
a detention, independent of the individual’s membership in a protected class.
To the extent that written documentation would otherwise be completed (e.g., arrest report, Field
Interview (FI) card), the involved officer should include those facts giving rise to the officer’s
reasonable suspicion or probable cause for the detention, as applicable.
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Nothing in this policy shall require any officer to document a contact that would not otherwise
require reporting.
401.5 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITY
Supervisors shall monitor those individuals under their command for any behavior that may conflict
with the purpose of this policy and shall handle any alleged or observed violation of this policy in
accordance with the Personnel Complaints Policy.
(a) Supervisors should discuss any issues with the involved officer and his/her supervisor
in a timely manner.
(b) Supervisors should periodically review MAV recordings, MDC data and any other
available resource used to document contact between officers and the public to ensure
compliance with the policy.
1. Supervisors should document these periodic reviews.
2. Recordings that capture a potential instance of racial- or bias-based profiling
should be appropriately retained for administrative investigation purposes.
(c) Supervisors shall initiate investigations of any actual or alleged violations of this policy.
(d) Supervisors should ensure that no retaliatory action is taken against any member of
this department who discloses information concerning racial- or bias-based profiling.
401.6 TRAINING
Training on racial- or bias-based profiling and review of this policy should be conducted as directed
by the Training Bureau.
(a) All sworn members of this department will be scheduled to attend Peace Officer
Standards and Training (POST)-approved training on the subject of racial- or bias-
based profiling.
(b) Pending participation in such POST-approved training and at all times, all members
of this department are encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial
and cultural differences among members of this community.
(c) Each sworn member of this department who received initial racial- or bias-based
profiling training will thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course
every five years, or sooner if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing
racial, identity and cultural trends (Penal Code § 13519.4(i)).
401.7 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Professional Standards Bureau Manager shall ensure that all data required by the California
Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against officers is collected and
provided to the Records Bureau Manager for required reporting to the DOJ (Penal Code § 13012;
Penal Code § 13020).
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Policy Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety
401 Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety Policy Manual
Bias-Based Policing
401.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This policy provides guidance to department members that affirms the Rohnert Park Department
of Public Safety's commitment to policing that is fair and objective.
Nothing in this policy prohibits the use of specified characteristics in law enforcement activities
designed to strengthen the department's relationship with its diverse communities (e.g., cultural
and ethnicity awareness training, youth programs, community group outreach, partnerships).
401.2 POLICY
The Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety is committed to providing law enforcement services
to the community with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences of those served. It is
the policy of this department to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the law equally,
fairly, objectively and without discrimination toward any individual or group.
401.3 BIAS-BASED POLICING PROHIBITED
Bias-based policing is strictly prohibited.
However, nothing in this policy is intended to prohibit an officer from considering protected
characteristics in combination with credible, timely and distinct information connecting a person or
people of a specific characteristic to a specific unlawful incident, or to specific unlawful incidents,
specific criminal patterns or specific schemes.
401.3.1 CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT
Members shall not collect information from a person based on religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity unless permitted under state or federal law (Government Code §
8310.3).
Members shall not assist federal government authorities (Government Code § 8310.3):
(a) In compiling personal information about a person’s religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity.
(b) By investigating, enforcing or assisting with the investigation or enforcement of any
requirement that a person register with the federal government based on religious
belief, practice, or affiliation, or national origin or ethnicity.
401.4 MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES
Every member of this department shall perform his/her duties in a fair and objective manner and
is responsible for promptly reporting any suspected or known instances of bias-based policing to
a supervisor. Members should, when reasonable to do so, intervene to prevent any biased-based
actions by another member.
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401.4.1 REASON FOR CONTACT
Officers contacting a person shall be prepared to articulate sufficient reason for the contact,
independent of the protected characteristics of the individual.
To the extent that written documentation would otherwise be completed (e.g., arrest report, field
interview (FI) card), the involved officer should include those facts giving rise to the contact, as
applicable.
Except for required data-collection forms or methods, nothing in this policy shall require any officer
to document a contact that would not otherwise require reporting.
401.5 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Sergeant or Command Staff Manager shall ensure that all data required by the California
Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against officers is collected and
provided to the Records Supervisor for required reporting to the DOJ (Penal Code § 13012; Penal
Code § 13020). See the Records Bureau Policy.
Supervisors should ensure that data stop reports are provided to the Records Supervisor for
required annual reporting to the DOJ (Government Code § 12525.5) (See Records Bureau Policy).
401.6 TRAINING
Training on fair and objective policing and review of this policy should be conducted as directed
by the Training Unit.
(a) All sworn members of this department will be scheduled to attend Peace Officer
Standards and Training (POST)-approved training on the subject of bias-based
policing.
(b) Pending participation in such POST-approved training and at all times, all members
of this department are encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial
and cultural differences among members of this community.
(c) Each sworn member of this department who received initial bias-based policing
training will thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course every
five years, or sooner if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing
racial, identity and cultural trends (Penal Code § 13519.4(i)).
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Policy Santa Ana Police Department
401 Santa Ana PD Policy Manual
Bias-Based Policing
401.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This policy provides guidance to department members that affirms the Santa Ana Police
Department's commitment to fair and objective policing.
Nothing in this policy prohibits the use of specified characteristics in law enforcement activities
designed to strengthen the Department's relationship with its diverse communities (e.g., cultural
and ethnicity awareness training, youth programs, community group outreach, partnerships).
401.1.1 DEFINITIONS
Definitions related to this policy include:
Bias-based policing - An inappropriate reliance on actual or perceived characteristics such
as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
economic status, age, cultural group, disability, or affiliation with any non-criminal group
(protected characteristics) as the basis for providing differing law enforcement service or
enforcement (Penal Code § 13519.4).
401.2 POLICY
The Santa Ana Police Department is committed to providing law enforcement services to the
community with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences of those served. It is
the policy of this Department to provide law enforcement services and enforce the law equally,
fairly, objectively and without discrimination toward any individual or group.
401.3 BIAS-BASED POLICING PROHIBITED
Bias-based policing is strictly prohibited.
Nothing in this policy is intended to prohibit an officer from considering protected characteristics in
combination with credible, timely and distinct information connecting a person or group people of
a specific characteristic to a specific unlawful incident(s), or specific criminal patterns, or specific
schemes.
401.3.1 CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT
Members shall not collect information from persons based on their religious beliefs, practices,
affiliations, national origin or ethnicity unless permitted under state or federal law (Government
Code § 8310.3).
Members shall not assist federal government authorities with the following (Government Code §
8310.3):
(a) Compiling personal information about a person’s religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity.
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(b) Investigating, enforcing or assisting with the investigation or enforcement of any
requirement that a person register with the federal government based on religious
belief, practice, or affiliation, or national origin or ethnicity.
401.4 MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES
Every member of this department shall perform his/her duties in a fair and objective manner and
is responsible for promptly reporting any suspected or known instances of bias-based policing to
a supervisor. Members should, when reasonable to do so, intervene to prevent any biased-based
actions by another member.
401.4.1 REASON FOR CONTACT
Officers contacting a person shall be prepared to articulate sufficient reason(s) for the contact,
independent of the protected characteristics of the individual.
To the extent written documentation would otherwise be completed (e.g., arrest report, field
interview (FI) card), the involved officer should include all facts giving rise to the contact, as
applicable.
Except for required data-collection forms or methods, nothing in this policy shall require officers
to document contacts that would not otherwise require reporting.
401.4.2 REPORTING OF STOPS
Unless an exception applies under 11 CCR 999.227, an officer conducting a stop of a person
shall collect the data elements required by 11 CCR 999.226 for every person stopped and prepare
a stop data report. When multiple officers conduct a stop, the officer with the highest level of
engagement with the person shall collect the data elements and prepare the report (11 CCR
999.227).
If multiple agencies are involved in a stop and the Santa Ana Police Department is the primary
agency, the Santa Ana Police Department officer shall collect the data elements and prepare the
stop data report (11 CCR 999.227).
The stop data report should be completed by the end of the officer’s shift or as soon as practicable
(11 CCR 999.227).
401.5 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervisors should monitor those individuals under their command for compliance with this policy
and shall handle any alleged or observed violations in accordance with Administrative
Investigations and Personnel Complaints Policy (1010).
(a) Supervisors should discuss any issues with the involved officer and his/her supervisor
in a timely manner.
(a) Supervisors should document these discussions in the prescribed manner.
(b) Supervisors should periodically review BWC recordings, portable audio/video
recordings, Mobile Data Terminal (MDT) data and any other available resource used to
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document contact between officers and members of the public to ensure compliance
with this policy.
1. Supervisors should document these periodic reviews.
2. Recordings or data that capture a potential instance of bias-based policing
should be appropriately retained for administrative investigation purposes.
(c) Supervisors shall initiate investigations of any actual or alleged violations of this policy.
(d) Supervisors should take prompt and reasonable steps to address any retaliatory action
taken against any member of this department who discloses information concerning
bias-based policing.
401.6 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Professional Standards UnitCommander shall ensure that all data required by the California
Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against officers is collected and
provided to the Records Manager for required reporting to the DOJ (Penal Code § 13012; Penal
Code § 13020). See the Records Division Policy.
Supervisors should ensure that data stop reports are provided to the Records Manager for required
annual reporting to the DOJ (Government Code § 12525.5) (See Records Division Policy).
401.7 ADMINISTRATION
Each year, the Professional Standards Commander should review the efforts of the Department
to provide fair and objective policing and submit an annual report, including public concerns and
complaints, to the Chief of Police.
The annual report should not contain any identifying information about any specific complaint,
member of the public or officers. It should be reviewed by the Chief of Police to identify any
changes in training or operations that should be made to improve service.
Supervisors should review the annual report and discuss the results with those they are assigned
to supervise.
401.8 TRAINING
Training on fair and objective policing and review of this policy should be conducted as directed
by the Training Division.
(a) All sworn members of the Department will be scheduled to attend Peace Officer
Standards and Training (POST)-approved training on the subject of bias-based
policing.
(b) Pending participation in such POST-approved training and at all times, all members
of this Department are encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial
and cultural differences among members of this community.
(c) Each sworn member of this Department who received initial bias-based policing
training will thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course every
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five (5) years, or sooner if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing
racial, identity and cultural trends (Penal Code § 13519.4(i)).
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E.17 Santa Rosa Police Department
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Policy Santa Rosa Police Department
402 Santa Rosa PD Policy Manual
Bias-Based Policing
402.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This policy provides guidance to department employees that affirms the Santa Rosa Police
Department’s commitment to policing that is fair and objective.
Nothing in this policy prohibits the use of specified characteristics in law enforcement activities
designed to strengthen the department’s relationship with its diverse communities (e.g., cultural
and ethnicity awareness training, youth programs, community group outreach, partnerships).
Adopted 5-22-13 by Chief Thomas E. Schwedhelm.
Revised 5-16-18 by Chief Robert L. Schreeder.
Revised 10-1-18 by Chief Robert L. Schreeder.
402.2 POLICY
The Santa Rosa Police Department is committed to providing law enforcement services to the
community with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences of those served. It is the
policy of this department to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the law equally, fairly,
objectively and without discrimination toward any individual or group.
402.3 BIAS-BASED POLICING PROHIBITED
Bias-based policing is strictly prohibited. However, nothing in this policy is intended to prohibit an
officer from considering protected characteristics in combination with credible, timely and distinct
information connecting a person or people of a specific characteristic to a specific unlawful incident,
or to specific unlawful incidents, specific criminal patterns or specific schemes.
402.3.1 CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT
Employees shall not collect information from a person based on religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity unless permitted under state or federal law (Government Code §
8310.3).
Employees shall not assist federal government authorities (Government Code § 8310.3):
(a) In compiling personal information about a person’s religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity.
(b) By investigating, enforcing or assisting with the investigation or enforcement of any
requirement that a person register with the federal government based on religious
belief, practice, or affiliation, or national origin or ethnicity.
402.4 EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITIES
Every employee of this department shall perform his/her duties in a fair and objective manner and
is responsible for promptly reporting any suspected or known instances of bias-based policing to
a supervisor. Employees should, when reasonable to do so, intervene to prevent any biased-
based actions by another employee.
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402.5 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervisors shall handle any alleged or observed violations in accordance with City and
Department Rules and Regulations.
(a) Supervisors should discuss any issues with the involved employee and his/her
supervisor in a timely manner.
1. Supervisors should document these discussions in the prescribed manner.
(b) Supervisors shall initiate a personnel inquiry for any actual or alleged violation of this
policy.
(c) Supervisors should take prompt and reasonable steps to address any retaliatory action
taken against any employee of this department who discloses information concerning
bias-based policing.
402.6 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Support Bureau Manager shall ensure that all data required by the California Department of
Justice (DOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against officers is collected and provided to the
Technical Services Division Manager for required reporting to the DOJ (California Penal Code §§
13012 and 13020).
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Policy San Francisco Sheriff's Department
402 Administration and Field Operations Policy Manual
Bias-Based Law Enforcement
402.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
The San Francisco Sheriff's Department is committed to ensuring that members do not engage
in racial or bias based profiling or violate any related laws while serving the community.
402.1.1 DEFINITIONS
Definitions related to this policy include:
Bias-based enforcement - An inappropriate reliance on actual or perceived characteristics such
as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
economic status, age, cultural group, disability or affiliation with any non-criminal group (protected
characteristics) as the basis for providing differing law enforcement service or enforcement (Penal
Code § 13519.4).
402.2 POLICY
The San Francisco Sheriff's Department is committed to providing law enforcement services to
the community with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences of those served. It is the
policy of this department to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the law equally, fairly,
objectively and without discrimination toward any individual or group.
402.3 BIAS-BASED ENFORCEMENT PROHIBITED
Bias-based enforcement is strictly prohibited.
However, nothing in this policy is intended to prohibit a deputy from considering protected
characteristics in combination with credible, timely and distinct information connecting a person or
people of a specific characteristic to a specific unlawful incident, or to specific unlawful incidents,
specific criminal patterns or specific schemes.
402.4 MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES
Every member of this department shall perform their duties in a fair and objective manner and is
responsible for promptly reporting suspected or known instances of bias-based enforcement to a
supervisor. Members should, when reasonable to do so, intervene to prevent any biased-based
actions by another member.
402.4.1 REASON FOR CONTACT
Deputies contacting a person shall be prepared to articulate a sufficient reason for the
contact, independent of the protected characteristics of the individual.
To the extent that written documentation would otherwise be completed, the involved deputy
should include those facts giving rise to the contact, as applicable.
Except for required data-collection forms or methods, nothing in this policy shall require any deputy
to document a contact that would not otherwise require reporting.
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402.4.2 REPORTING OF STOPS
Unless an exception applies under 11 CCR 999.227, a deputy conducting a stop of a person shall
collect the data elements required by 11 CCR 999.226 for every person stopped and prepare
a stop data report. When multiple deputies conduct a stop, the deputy with the highest level of
engagement with the person shall collect the data elements and prepare the report by the end of
the deputy's shift (11 CCR 999.227).
When a deputy conducts a traffic stop and issues a citation, the deputy shall ensure the Training
Coordinator or supervisor responsible for entering the stop data in the SFSD Citation Database,
is provided a copy.
402.5 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervisors shall monitor those individuals under their command for compliance with this policy
and shall take appropriate action to correct and/or recommend discipline for alleged or observed
violations of this policy.
(a) Supervisors shall discuss and document any issues with the involved deputy and their
supervisor in a timely manner.
(b) Supervisors should periodically review Mobile Audio Video (MAV) recordings, portable
audio/video recordings, Mobile Data Terminal (MDT) data and any other available
resource used to document contact between deputies and the public to ensure
compliance with the policy.
1. Supervisors should document these periodic reviews.
2. Recordings or data that capture a potential instance of bias-based enforcement
shall be retained for administrative investigation purposes.
(c) Supervisors shall initiate investigations of any actual or alleged violations of this policy.
(d) Supervisors shall take prompt action to address any retaliatory action taken against a
member of this department who discloses information concerning bias-based
enforcement.
402.6 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Field Operations Division Captain shall ensure that all data required by the California
Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against deputies is collected and
provided by the Sheriff's Patrol Unit Commander for required reporting to the DOJ (Penal Code
§ 13012; Penal Code § 13020).
Supervisors should ensure that data stop reports are provided to the Sheriff's Patrol Unit
Commander for required annual reporting to the DOJ (Government Code § 12525.5).
402.7 ADMINISTRATION
Each year, the Field Operations Division Chief shall review the efforts of the Department to provide
fair and objective law enforcement and submit an annual report, including public concerns and
complaints, to the Sheriff.
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The annual report should not contain any identifying information about a specific complaint,
member of the public or deputies. It shall be reviewed by the Sheriff to identify any changes in
training or operations that should be made to improve service.
Supervisors shall review the annual report and discuss the results with those they are assigned
to supervise.
402.8 TRAINING
Training on fair and objective enforcement and review of this policy shall be conducted as directed
by the Training Unit.
(a) All deputies will be scheduled to attend Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)-
approved training on the subject of bias-based enforcement.
(b) Pending participation in such POST-approved training and at all times, members are
encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial and cultural differences
among members of this community.
(c) All deputies who received initial bias-based enforcement training will thereafter be
required to complete an approved refresher course every five years, or sooner if
deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing racial, identity and cultural
trends (Penal Code § 13519.4(i)).
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Policy Sonoma County Sheriff's Office
401 Policies
Bias-Based Policing
401.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This policy provides guidance to office members that affirms the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office's
commitment to policing that is fair and objective.
Nothing in this policy prohibits the use of specified characteristics in law enforcement activities
designed to strengthen the office's relationship with its diverse communities (e.g., cultural and
ethnicity awareness training, youth programs, community group outreach, partnerships).
401.1.1 DEFINITIONS
Definitions related to this policy include:
Bias-based policing - An inappropriate reliance on characteristics such as race, ethnicity,
national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, economic
status, age, cultural group, disability or affiliation with any non-criminal group (protected
characteristics) as the basis for providing differing law enforcement service or enforcement (Penal
Code § 13519.4).
401.2 POLICY
The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office is committed to providing law enforcement services to the
community with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences of those served. It is
the policy of this office to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the law equally, fairly,
objectively and without discrimination toward any individual or group.
401.3 BIAS-BASED POLICING PROHIBITED
Bias-based policing is strictly prohibited.
However, nothing in this policy is intended to prohibit a deputy from considering protected
characteristics in combination with credible, timely and distinct information connecting a person or
people of a specific characteristic to a specific unlawful incident, or to specific unlawful incidents,
specific criminal patterns or specific schemes.
401.3.1 CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT
Members shall not collect information from a person based on religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity unless permitted under state or federal law (Government Code §
8310.3).
Members shall not assist federal government authorities (Government Code § 8310.3):
(a) In compiling personal information about a person’s religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity.
(b) By investigating, enforcing or assisting with the investigation or enforcement of any
requirement that a person register with the federal government based on religious
belief, practice, or affiliation, or national origin or ethnicity.
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401.4 MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES
Every member of this office shall perform his/her duties in a fair and objective manner and is
responsible for promptly reporting any suspected or known instances of bias-based policing to a
supervisor. Members should, when reasonable to do so, intervene to prevent any biased-based
actions by another member.
401.4.1 REASON FOR CONTACT
Deputies contacting a person shall be prepared to articulate sufficient reason for the contact,
independent of the protected characteristics of the individual.
To the extent that written documentation would otherwise be completed (e.g., arrest report, field
interview (FI) card), the involved deputy should include those facts giving rise to the contact, as
applicable.
Except for required data-collection forms or methods, nothing in this policy shall require any deputy
to document a contact that would not otherwise require reporting.
401.5 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervisors should monitor those individuals under their command for compliance with this policy
and shall handle any alleged or observed violations in accordance with the Personnel Complaints
Policy.
(a) Supervisors should discuss any issues with the involved deputy and his/her supervisor
in a timely manner.
1. Supervisors should document these discussions, in the prescribed manner.
(b) Supervisors should periodically review BWC recordings, (MDC) data and any other
available resource used to document contact between deputies and the public to
ensure compliance with the policy.
1. Recordings or data that capture a potential instance of bias-based policing
should be appropriately retained for administrative investigation purposes.
(c) Supervisors shall initiate investigations of any actual or alleged violations of this policy.
(d) Supervisors should take prompt and reasonable steps to address any retaliatory action
taken against any member of this office who discloses information concerning bias-
based policing.
401.6 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Professional Standards Bureau shall ensure that all data required by the California
Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against deputies is collected and
provided to the CIB Manager for required reporting to the DOJ (Penal Code § 13012; Penal Code
§ 13020). See the CIB Policy.
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401.7 TRAINING
Training on fair and objective policing and review of this policy should be conducted as directed
by the Professional Standards Bureau.
(a) All sworn members of this office will be scheduled to attend Peace Officer Standards
and Training (POST)-approved training on the subject of bias-based policing.
(b) Pending participation in such POST-approved training and at all times, all members
of this office are encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial and
cultural differences among members of this community.
(c) Each sworn member of this office who received initial bias-based policing training will
thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course every five years, or
sooner if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing racial, identity and
cultural trends (Penal Code § 13519.4(i)).
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Policy Sonoma County Junior College
402 District Police Department
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402.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This policy provides guidance to department members that affirms the Sonoma County Junior
College District Police Department's commitment to policing that is fair and objective.
Nothing in this policy prohibits the use of specified characteristics in law enforcement activities
designed to strengthen the department's relationship with its diverse communities (e.g., cultural
and ethnicity awareness training, youth programs, community group outreach, partnerships).
Adopted Chief Robert T. Brownlee 11-9-21
402.1.1 DEFINITIONS
Definitions related to this policy include:
Bias-based policing - An inappropriate reliance on actual or perceived characteristics such
as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
economic status, age, cultural group, disability, or affiliation with any non-criminal group
(protected characteristics) as the basis for providing differing law enforcement service or
enforcement (Penal Code § 13519.4).
402.2 POLICY
The Sonoma County Junior College District Police Department is committed to providing law
enforcement services to the community with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences
of those served. It is the policy of this department to provide law enforcement services and to
enforce the law equally, fairly, objectively and without discrimination toward any individual or
group.
402.3 BIAS-BASED POLICING PROHIBITED
Bias-based policing is strictly prohibited.
However, nothing in this policy is intended to prohibit an officer from considering protected
characteristics in combination with credible, timely and distinct information connecting a person or
people of a specific characteristic to a specific unlawful incident, or to specific unlawful incidents,
specific criminal patterns or specific schemes.
402.3.1 CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT
Members shall not collect information from a person based on religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity unless permitted under state or federal law (Government Code §
8310.3).
Members shall not assist federal government authorities (Government Code § 8310.3):
(a) In compiling personal information about a person’s religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity.
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(b) By investigating, enforcing or assisting with the investigation or enforcement of any
requirement that a person register with the federal government based on religious
belief, practice, or affiliation, or national origin or ethnicity.
402.4 MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES
Every member of this department shall perform his/her duties in a fair and objective manner and
is responsible for promptly reporting any suspected or known instances of bias-based policing to
a supervisor. Members should, when reasonable to do so, intervene to prevent any biased-based
actions by another member.
402.4.1 REASON FOR CONTACT
Officers contacting a person shall be prepared to articulate sufficient reason for the contact,
independent of the protected characteristics of the individual.
To the extent that written documentation would otherwise be completed (e.g., arrest report, field
interview (FI) card), the involved officer should include those facts giving rise to the contact, as
applicable.
Except for required data-collection forms or methods, nothing in this policy shall require any officer
to document a contact that would not otherwise require reporting.
402.4.2 REPORTING OF STOPS
Unless an exception applies under 11 CCR 999.227, an officer conducting a stop of a person
shall collect the data elements required by 11 CCR 999.226 for every person stopped and prepare
a stop data report. When multiple officers conduct a stop, the officer with the highest level of
engagement with the person shall collect the data elements and prepare the report (11 CCR
999.227).
If multiple agencies are involved in a stop and the Sonoma County Junior College District Police
Department is the primary agency, the Sonoma County Junior College District Police Department
officer shall collect the data elements and prepare the stop data report (11 CCR 999.227).
The stop data report should be completed by the end of the officer’s shift or as soon as practicable
(11 CCR 999.227).
402.5 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervisors should monitor those individuals under their command for compliance with this policy
and shall handle any alleged or observed violations in accordance with the Personnel Complaints
Policy.
(a) Supervisors should discuss any issues with the involved officer and his/her supervisor
in a timely manner.
1. Supervisors should document these discussions, in the prescribed manner.
(b) Supervisors should periodically review recordings, portable audio/video
recordings, Mobile Digital Computer (MDC) data, the DOJ portal and/or any other
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available resource used to document contact between officers and the public to ensure
compliance with the policy.
1. Supervisors should document these periodic reviews.
2. Recordings or data that capture a potential instance of bias-based policing
should be appropriately retained for administrative investigation purposes.
(c) Supervisors shall initiate investigations of any actual or alleged violations of this policy.
(d) Supervisors should take prompt and reasonable steps to address any retaliatory action
taken against any member of this department who discloses information concerning
bias-based policing.
402.6 ADMINISTRATION
Periodically, the Chief of Police should review the efforts of the Department to provide fair and
objective policing and submit an report, including public concerns and complaints.
The report should not contain any identifying information about any specific complaint, member
of the public or officers. It should be reviewed by the Chief of Police to identify any changes in
training or operations that should be made to improve service.
Supervisors should review the report and discuss the results with those they are assigned to
supervise.
402.7 TRAINING
Training on fair and objective policing and review of this policy should be conducted as directed
by the Training Section.
(a) All sworn members of this department will be scheduled to attend Peace Officer
Standards and Training (POST)-approved training on the subject of bias-based
policing.
(b) Pending participation in such POST-approved training and at all times, all members
of this department are encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial
and cultural differences among members of this community.
(c) Each sworn member of this department who received initial bias-based policing
training will thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course every
five years, or sooner if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing
racial, identity and cultural trends (Penal Code § 13519.4(i)).
402.8 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Chief of Police or designee shall ensure that all data required by the California Department
of Justice (DOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against officers is collected and provided to
the Records Custodian for required reporting to the DOJ (Penal Code § 13012; Penal Code §
13020). See the Records Center Policy.
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Supervisors should ensure that data stop reports are provided to the Records Custodian for
required annual reporting to the DOJ (Government Code § 12525.5) (See Records Bureau Policy).
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Policy Ventura County Sheriff's Office
401 Ventura County SO Policy Manual
Bias-Based Policing
401.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This policy provides guidance to department members that affirms the Ventura County Sheriff's
Office 's commitment to policing that is fair and objective.
Nothing in this policy prohibits the use of specified characteristics in law enforcement activities
designed to strengthen the department’s relationship with its diverse communities (e.g., cultural
and ethnicity awareness training, youth programs, community group outreach, partnerships).
401.1.1 DEFINITIONS
Definitions related to this policy include:
Bias-based policing - An inappropriate reliance on actual or perceived characteristics such
as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
economic status, age, cultural group, disability, or affiliation with any non-criminal group
(protected characteristics) as the basis for providing differing law enforcement service or
enforcement (Penal Code § 13519.4).
401.2 POLICY
The Ventura County Sheriff's Office is committed to providing law enforcement services to the
community with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences of those served. It is the
policy of this department to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the law equally,
fairly, objectively and without discrimination toward any individual or group.
401.3 BIAS-BASED POLICING PROHIBITED
Bias-based policing is strictly prohibited.
However, nothing in this policy is intended to prohibit a deputy from considering protected
characteristics in combination with credible, timely and distinct information connecting a person or
people of a specific characteristic to a specific unlawful incident, or to specific unlawful incidents,
specific criminal patterns or specific schemes.
401.3.1 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Professional Standards Bureau Commander shall ensure that all data required by the
Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding complaints of racial bias against deputies is collected and
reported annually to DOJ (Penal Code § 13012; Penal Code § 13020).
401.3.2 CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT
Members shall not collect information from a person based on religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity unless permitted under state or federal law (Government Code §
8310.3).
Members shall not assist federal government authorities (Government Code § 8310.3):
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(a) In compiling personal information about a person’s religious belief, practice, affiliation,
national origin or ethnicity.
(b) By investigating, enforcing or assisting with the investigation or enforcement of any
requirement that a person register with the federal government based on religious
belief, practice, or affiliation, or national origin or ethnicity.
401.3.3 RACIAL IDENTITY PROFILING ACT (RIPA)
Department members shall collect and report data for all individuals detained or searched during
a call for service or self-initiated activity, in accordance with the Racial and Identity Profiling Act
(Government Code § 12525.5).
This data shall be collected through the department developed application that can be found on
department issued electronic equipment and should be submitted upon completion of the activity
and unless prior approved, prior to the end of shift.
Field Supervisors shall review and ensure that personal identifying information is not included in
the RIPA information prior to approval. Approval of RIPA data shall be completed in most cases
prior to the end of shift.
401.4 TRAINING
Training on fair and objective policing and review of this policy should be conducted as directed
by the Training Center.
(a) All sworn members of this department will be scheduled to attend Peace Officer
Standards and Training (POST)-approved training on the subject of bias-based
policing.
(b) Pending participation in such POST-approved training and at all times, all members
of this department are encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial
and cultural differences among members of this community.
(c) Each sworn member of this department who received initial bias-based policing
training will thereafter be required to complete an approved refresher course every
five years, or sooner if deemed necessary, in order to keep current with changing
racial, identity and cultural trends (Penal Code § 13519.4(i)).
401.5 MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES
Every member of this department shall perform his/her duties in a fair and objective manner and
is responsible for promptly reporting any suspected or known instances of bias-based policing to
a supervisor. Members should, when reasonable to do so, intervene to prevent any biased-based
actions by another member.
401.6 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervisors shall handle any alleged or observed violation of this policy in accordance with the
Personnel Complaints Policy.
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Policy Windsor Police Department
401 Policy Manual
Bias-Based Policing
401.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This policy provides guidance to department members that affirms the Windsor Police Department
's commitment to policing that is fair and objective.
Nothing in this policy prohibits the use of specified characteristics in law enforcement activities
designed to strengthen the department’s relationship with its diverse communities (e.g., cultural
and ethnicity awareness training, youth programs, community group outreach, partnerships).
401.1.1 DEFINITIONS
Definitions related to this policy include:
Bias-based policing - An inappropriate reliance on actual or perceived characteristics such
as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
economic status, age, cultural group, disability, or affiliation with any non-criminal group
(protected characteristics) as the basis for providing differing law enforcement service or
enforcement (CRS § 24-31-309).
401.2 POLICY
The Windsor Police Department is committed to providing law enforcement services to the
community with due regard for the racial, cultural or other differences of those served. It is the
policy of this department to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the law equally,
fairly, objectively and without discrimination toward any individual or group.
401.3 BIAS-BASED POLICING PROHIBITED
Bias-based policing is strictly prohibited.
However, nothing in this policy is intended to prohibit an officer from considering protected
characteristics in combination with credible, timely and distinct information connecting a person or
people of a specific characteristic to a specific unlawful incident, or to specific unlawful incidents,
specific criminal patterns or specific schemes.
401.4 MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES
Every member of this department shall perform his/her duties in a fair and objective manner and
is responsible for promptly reporting any suspected or known instances of racial- or bias-based
profiling to a supervisor. Members should, when reasonable to do so, intervene to prevent any
biased-based actions by another member.
Officers shall provide, without being asked, a business card to any person who was detained in a
traffic stop and was not cited or arrested. The business card shall include identifying information
including, but not limited to, the officer's name, division, precinct and badge or other identification
number and a telephone number that may be used, if necessary, to report any comments, either
positive or negative, regarding the traffic stop (CRS § 24-31-309(4)(a)).
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401.4.1 REASON FOR CONTACT
Officers contacting a person shall be prepared to articulate sufficient reason for the contact,
independent of the protected characteristics of the individual.
After making a consensual or nonconsensual contact for the purpose of enforcing the law or
investigating possible violations of the law, officers should complete a report as required by CRS
24-31-309. To the extent that written documentation would otherwise be completed (e.g., arrest
report, Field Interview (FI) card), the involved officer should include those facts giving rise to the
contact, as applicable.
Except for required data-collection forms or methods, nothing in this policy shall require any officer
to document a contact that would not otherwise require reporting.
401.5 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervisors should monitor those individuals under their command for compliance with this policy
and shall handle any alleged or observed violations in accordance with the Personnel Complaints
Policy. Supervisors should ensure that the identity of a person filing a bias-based profiling
complaint is kept confidential to the extent permitted by law or unless necessary for further
processing of the complaint (CRS § 24-31-309).
(a) Supervisors should discuss any issues with the involved officer and his/her supervisor
in a timely manner.
1. Supervisors should document these discussions, in the prescribed manner.
(b) Supervisors should periodically review MAV recordings, portable audio/video
recordings, Mobile Data Terminal, (MDT) data and any other available resource used
to document contact between officers and the public to ensure compliance with this
policy.
1. Supervisors should document these periodic reviews.
2. Recordings that capture a potential instance of bias-based policing should be
appropriately retained for administrative investigation purposes.
(c) Supervisors shall initiate investigations of any actual or alleged violations of this policy.
(d) Supervisors should take prompt and reasonable steps to address any retaliatory
action taken against any member of this department who discloses information
concerning bias-based policing.
401.6 STATE REPORTING
The Department shall compile, on at least an annual basis, any information derived from
complaints of profiling that are received due to the distribution of business cards as provided in
this policy. The information shall be made available to the public but shall not include the names
of officers or the names of persons alleging profiling (CRS § 24-31-309).
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401.7 ADMINISTRATION
Each year, the Investigation Section Commander should review the efforts of the Department to
provide fair and objective policing and submit an annual report, including public concerns and
complaints, to the Chief of Police. The annual report should not contain any identifying information
about any specific complaint, citizen or officers. It should be reviewed by the Chief of Police to
identify any changes in training or operations that should be made to improve service.
Supervisors should review the information compiled from complaints, as provided in this policy
and the annual report, and discuss the results with those they are assigned to supervise.
401.8 TRAINING
Training on fair and objective policing and review of this policy should be conducted as directed
by the Training Section.
All certified members will attend regular training on the subject of bias-based policing (CRS § 24-
31-309). All newly employed officers should receive a copy of this policy and initial training on the
subject of bias-based policing.
401.9 PUBLIC INFORMATION
The Investigation Section Commander will ensure that this policy is made available to the public
for inspection during business hours (CRS § 24-31-309).
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APPENDIX F – WAVES 1 AND 2 REVISED BIAS-FREE
POLICING POLICIES
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F.1 California Highway Patrol
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CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
GENERAL ORDER 100.21
REVISED DECEMBER 2020
RACIAL AND IDENTITY PROFILING/DEMOGRAPHIC DATA COLLECTION
1. PURPOSE. The purpose of this General Order (GO) is to establish policy and
procedures regarding the collection of demographic data, while emphasizing the
Department's commitment to bias-free policing and the equitable treatment of all during
public contacts. The intent of this policy is to increase departmental effectiveness and
to strengthen public trust with the State of California's diverse population.
2. GENERAL.
a. In an ongoing effort to maintain public trust, the Department's enforcement
efforts must be consistent with the Department's organizational values of respect
for others, fairness, ethical practices, and equitable treatment for all. As such, all
enforcement actions by members of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) must be
based on sound professional judgment and accomplished in a businesslike, firm,
impartial, courteous, and consistent manner.
b. The Department is committed to providing law enforcement services in a
professional, nondiscriminatory, fair and equitable manner, while firmly embracing
the tenets of racial equity and inclusion. The CHP recognizes that implicit bias can
occur at both an individual and institutional level and is committed to addressing
and eradicating both.
c. On October 3, 2015, Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 953, known as the
Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015 (RIPA), which requires the collection and
reporting of specified demographic data for all enforcement contacts to the
California Office of the Attorney General (OAG). As outlined in Section 12525.5 of
the Government Code (GC), and associated regulations, the Department began
collecting expanded demographic data on July 1, 2018.
3. DEFINITIONS.
a. Racial or Identity Profiling. The consideration of, or reliance on, to any degree,
actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, gender
identity or expression, sexual orientation, or mental or physical disability in deciding
which persons to subject to a stop or in deciding upon the scope or substance of
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law enforcement activities following a stop, except that an officer may consider or
rely on characteristics listed in a specific suspect description. (Refer to
Section 13519.4 of the California Penal Code [PC].)
b. Bias-Based Policing. Conduct by law enforcement officers motivated by an
officer's beliefs about someone based on the person's actual or perceived personal
characteristics.
c. Implicit Bias. The attitudes or stereotypes that affect a person's
understanding, actions, or decisions in an unconscious manner.
d. Detention. A seizure of a person by an officer that results from physical
restraint, unequivocal verbal commands, or words or conduct by an officer that
would result in a reasonable person believing that they are not free to leave or
otherwise disregard the officer.
e. Probable Cause. Probable cause to arrest exists when there is a set of
specific facts that would lead a reasonable person to objectively believe that a
crime was committed by the person to be arrested.
f. Reasonable Suspicion. Reasonable suspicion is the belief that something
related to a crime has just happened, is happening, or is about to happen, and the
vehicle or person being stopped, detained, or contacted is connected with that
activity.
4. POLICY.
a. Racial or identity profiling and discrimination of any kind are prohibited by
the Department and will not be tolerated. It is the policy of the CHP to enforce the
law without fear, favor, or discrimination. Immediate and appropriate disciplinary
action will be taken against individuals determined to be in violation of this policy,
up to and including termination.
b. All CHP employees are prohibited from taking actions based on actual or
perceived personal characteristics including, but not limited to: race, color,
ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual
orientation, or mental or physical disability, except when engaging in the
investigation of appropriate suspect-specific activity to identify a particular person or
group.
c. Employees shall not delay or deny services based on an individual's actual or
perceived personally identifying characteristics.
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d. Officers may only consider or rely on characteristics listed in a specific
description of a suspect, victim, or witness, based on trustworthy and relevant
information that links a specific person to a particular incident. Absent these
circumstances, officers shall not consider personal characteristics in establishing
reasonable suspicion or probable cause.
e. All employees shall aim to strengthen public trust when engaging with the
public, especially in response to bias-based reports. Employees shall not use
harassing, intimidating, derogatory, or prejudiced language, including profanity and
slurs, related to an individual's actual or perceived characteristics.
f. Employees shall not retaliate against any person who complains of bias-based
policing or expresses negative views about them or the Department.
g. All employees share the responsibility of preventing bias-based policing.
Personnel who witness or are aware of instances of biased-based policing shall
report the incident to a supervisor immediately. If safe to do so, and where
appropriate, officers shall intervene when biased-based policing occurs in their
presence. Supervisors who fail to respond to, document, or review allegations of
biased-based policing will be subject to disciplinary action.
h. Commanders shall ensure all personnel under their command, including
dispatchers and nonsworn personnel, understand the content of this policy and
comply with it at all times.
5. PUBLIC CONTACTS.
a. To cultivate and foster transparency and trust with all communities, each
member of the Department shall do the following when conducting pedestrian or
vehicle stops unless circumstances indicate it would be unsafe to do so:
(1) Be courteous, professional, and respectful.
(2) Immediately after greeting the person stopped, briefly explain why the
enforcement stop was made.
(3) Ensure the stop is no longer than necessary to take appropriate action for
the known or suspected offense and convey the purpose of reasonable delays.
b. On-duty personnel receiving requests to view photographic ID should comply
by displaying the front (photograph) side of their departmentally issued ID card,
unless doing so would reasonably jeopardize officer and/or public safety.
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6. TRAINING.
a. In addition to initial cadet training, all uniformed members of the Department
shall attend racial and identity profiling refresher training, as required by the
California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) and
Section 13519.4 PC.
b. In addition to POST requirements, personnel shall adhere to all departmental
training requirements outlined in Highway Patrol Manual (HPM) 10.12, Equal
Employment Opportunity Manual, Chapter 9, Cultural Awareness, and HPM 70.13,
Departmental Training Manual.
7. ENFORCEMENT/PUBLIC CONTACT DEMOGRAPHIC DATA COLLECTION.
a. In compliance with Section 12525.5 GC and Title 11, California Code of
Regulations, the Department will collect specified data elements for each public
contact on the CHP 415, Daily Field Record, in the departmental Activity Tracking
System (ATS). These data elements include the following:
(1) Originating Agency Identifier number.
(2) Date, time, and duration of stop.
(3) Location of stop.
(4) Perceived race or ethnicity of person stopped.
(5) Perceived gender of person stopped.
(6) Whether the person stopped is perceived to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, or
transgender.
(7) Perceived age of person stopped.
(8) Whether the person stopped is perceived to have limited or no English
fluency.
(9) Perceived or known disability of person stopped.
(10) Reason for the stop.
(11) Whether the stop was made in response to a call for service.
(12) Actions taken by officer during stop.
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(13) Result of stop.
(14) Officer's unique (not departmental) identification number.
(15) Officer's years of experience.
(16) Officer's type of assignment.
b. Under the reason for stop category, in addition to notating the type of stop and
specific code violation, an additional narrative box shall be completed. The
additional narrative box must include a brief explanation regarding the reason for
the stop, beyond the general data values selected.
c. In all cases where a 'perceived' data element is required, responses shall be
based on perception alone. Officers may not consider identification documents
obtained during the stop and shall not inquire with the person contacted to try and
ascertain appropriate responses to any of these data elements.
d. Although Section 12525.5 GC only requires reporting of enforcement contact
data to the OAG, the Department will continue to collect data for all public contacts
but will not transmit nonrequired data to the OAG.
e. The Department will regularly analyze collected data, in consultation with
representatives of an academic institution and/or the Citizens' Advisory Board, to
identify trends and assist in identifying practices that may have a disparate impact
on any of the diverse groups served by the CHP.
8. FIELD RECORD PROCEDURE.
a. CHP 415, Daily Field Record. All commands are required to report public
contact data on the CHP 415. Data collection shall be completed by all uniformed
personnel when engaged in a recordable activity. Refer to HPM 40.71, CHP 415
User's Manual, for additional information regarding CHP 415 entries into the ATS.
b. Partner Officers. In the case of partner officers, only one officer is to record the
public contact data. Duplicate counts shall not be taken.
c. Special Enforcement Operations. Uniformed personnel, when conducting
special enforcement operations (e.g., Cargo Theft Interdiction Program,
Investigative Services Unit operations, Construction/Maintenance Zone Enhanced
Enforcement Programs, grant-funded enforcement operations), shall make public
contact data entries as outlined in this GO.
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d. Federal Task Force. Uniformed personnel assigned to a federal task force are
required to report data in accordance with this policy while performing duties as part
of the task force, regardless of whether or not the task force has separate data
collection policies.
e. Automated Tracking System Not Available. Uniformed personnel without
access to ATS will be required to collect data on the CJIS 2000, Stop Data
Collection Form, created by the OAG and available in the online CHP forms
directory and the OAG Web site. All required data shall be subsequently entered
into the ATS from the completed CJIS 2000 forms. Once ATS data entry has been
completed, corresponding CJIS 2000 forms may be destroyed. (Refer to Annex A.)
f. Recordable Activity. An entry on the CHP 415 must be made for each person
contacted during an enforcement stop or action, detention, crash, or motorist
service (e.g., an officer may stop one vehicle with four occupants, cite the driver for
speeding, search two passengers, and have three entries on the CHP 415).
(1) Personnel shall not collect data for passengers in crashes, vehicle stops,
or motorist services unless the passenger is subjected to one of the specific
activities listed in "actions taken by the officer," on the CHP 415 (e.g.,
passenger cited, searched, handcuffed), excluding vehicle impounds.
(2) When two or more reporting agencies are involved in a stop, only the
primary agency shall submit demographic data. The primary agency is the
agency with investigative jurisdiction based on local, county, state law, or
applicable interagency agreement or memorandum of understanding.
g. Exceptions. The following interactions do not require any data entry on the
CHP415:
(1) Crowd control or contacts made during public safety evacuations (e.g.,
natural disasters, critical incidents).
(2) Contacts made during active shooter incidents.
(3) Contacts made during security screenings required of all persons entering
a building or event.
(4) Absent additional law enforcement actions, contacts made during routine
traffic control, sobriety checkpoints, or other situations in which the contact is
the result of a blanket regulatory activity or neutral formula not based on
individualized suspicion or personal characteristics.
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h. Data Entry.
(1) Personnel shall not include the name, address, social security number, or
other unique personal identifying information of persons contacted in any
CHP 415 entry, including narrative boxes.
(2) Personnel shall complete and submit all CHP 415 entries prior to the end
of their shift, unless exigent circumstances preclude doing so. In such
circumstances, a supervisor shall be notified, and the data shall be completed
as soon as practicable.
(3) Supervisors shall conduct a periodic review of CHP 415 entries to ensure
compliance with this GO. When reviewing CHP 415 entries, supervisors
should ensure no personal or unique identifying information regarding the
person stopped is entered in the narrative field.
9. PROCEDURES. Specific procedures for entering contact data on the CHP 415
are contained in HPM 40.71.
10. RESPONSIBILITIES. There are two Offices of Primary Interest responsible for the
data collection program. They are as follows:
a. Research and Planning Section is responsible for updating and maintaining
departmental policy regarding racial or bias-based profiling and the collection of
demographic data.
b. Information Management Division (IMO) is responsible for maintaining the ATS
and associated CHP 415 data collection system. Additionally, IMO is responsible
for the electronic submission of required data to the OAG.
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER ANNEX A
OPI: 061
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Manual of Policy and Procedures : 3-01/000.05 - Bias - Free Policing
3-01/000.05 - Bias - Free Policing
The Department is committed to ensuring that members of the public receive equal protection of the law
without bias based on actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender
identity, disability, sexual orientation, or age in accordance with the rights secured or protected by the
Constitution or laws of the United States.
Core Values
Lead With Compassion, Serve With Humility And Courageously Seek Justice For ALL. Refer to Manual of
Policy and Procedures (MPP) 3-01/000.13, Professional Conduct – Core Values, and MPP 3-01/121.00,
Policy of Equality.
These ideals are engrained into our efforts and reflect our Department’s continued commitment to Bias-Free
Policing. Biased-based policing alienates communities, promotes distrust of law enforcement actions, and
undermines legitimate law enforcement efforts. Biased, racial, or identity profiling will not be tolerated by the
Department. See MPP 5-09/520.00, Constitutional Policing and Stops.
Definitions
Racial or Identity Profiling - The consideration of, or reliance on, to any degree, actual or perceived race,
color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or mental
or physical disability in deciding which persons to subject to a stop or in deciding upon the scope or
substance of law enforcement activities following a stop, except that an officer may consider or rely on
characteristics listed in a specific suspect description. The activities include, but are not limited to,
traffic or pedestrian stops, or actions during a stop: pat-down, consensual, and nonconsensual searches
of a person or any property, seizing any property, removing vehicle occupants during a traffic stop,
issuing a citation, and making an arrest. (Penal Code 13519.4 (e)).
Biased-Based Policing - Is the intentional practice by an individual law enforcement officer who
incorporates prejudicial judgments based on actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin,
religion, gender, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, or age that are inappropriately applied in
the performance of their duties.
Implicit Bias - The attitudes or stereotypes that affect a person’s understanding, actions, and decisions
in an unconscious manner. These biases, which encompass both favorable and unfavorable
assessments, are activated involuntarily and without an individual’s awareness or intentional control.
Implicit biases are different from known biases that individuals may choose to conceal.
Bias by Proxy - Occurs when an individual contacts the police and makes a false or ill-informed claim of
misconduct about persons they dislike or are biased against based on explicit racial and identity
profiling or implicit bias. When the police act on a request for service of unlawful bias, they risk
perpetuating the callers’ bias. Department personnel should use their critical decision-making skills,
drawing upon their training to access whether criminal conduct exists.
Stop – Any detention by a peace officer of a person, or any peace officer interaction with a person in
which the peace officer conducts a search, including a consensual search, of the person’s body or
property in the person’s possession or control. 12525.5(g)(2)Government Code
Detentions and Stops
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Department members shall not use actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender,
gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, or age as a factor, to any extent or degree, in establishing
reasonable suspicion or probable cause except as part of actual and reliable information and description(s) of
a specific suspect or suspects in any criminal investigation. (Navarette v California, 572 US 393, {2014}).
Deputies should draw upon their training, and use critical decision making skills to access whether there is
criminal conduct and be aware of implicit and bias by proxy while carrying out duties. Deputies conducting
investigative detentions and stops shall:
Establish reasonable suspicion or probable cause except as part of actual and credible description(s)
of a specific suspect or suspects in any criminal investigation;
Only conduct investigatory stops or detentions when they have reasonable suspicion that a person has
been, is, or is about to be engaged in the commission of a crime;
Not use racial or identity profiling in exercising discretion to conduct a search except as part of an actual
and reliable information, and description of a specific suspect or suspects in any criminal investigation;
Not initiate stops or other field contacts because of an individual’s actual or perceived immigration
status;
Not conduct arbitrary searches. The request to conduct a consent search must be reasonable, and a
deputy must be able to articulate a valid reason under law and policy for initially having stopped the
individual; and
Only conduct searches of individuals based on probation or parole status when knowledge of a
probation or parole search condition has been established.
Persons that are contacted during consensual encounters shall be free to leave at all times and the contact
shall be voluntary. A consensual encounter can transform into a detention if a reasonable person believes that
they are not free to leave. Refer to MPP 5-09/520.05-Stops, Seizures, and Searches, MPP 5-09/520.15,
Consensual Encounters, and MPP 5-09/520.25, Logging Field Activities.
Community Encounters
Department personnel are to interact with members of the public in a manner that is professional,
respectful, and courteous. Refer to MPP 3-01/030.15, Conduct Toward Others, MPP 5-09/560.00,
Interactions with Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Persons, and MPP 2-02/090.00, Deputy Sheriffs.
Training
State Mandated:
Racial Profiling – All sworn personnel must attend once every five years. (Penal Code 13519.4(i)).
Department Mandated:
Respect Based Leadership – All personnel must attend once; and
Leadership Development institute (DLI) – All personnel must attend session one (16 hours) once.
Unit Optional Training:
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Ethics in Community Policing.
All units shall provide training to personnel, whenever possible, which enhances competence and skills
required to meet unit needs. The training may consist of formal training sessions and/or briefings as time and
necessity dictates. See MPP 3-02/080.01, Training Requirements for Sworn Personnel.
Department personnel are responsible for knowing the contents of this policy.
Complaints/Supervisory Review
Department personnel who witness, or are aware of incidents of biased policing, shall report the incident to a
supervisor.
If a person alleges racial bias, the employee shall call a supervisor to the scene to determine an appropriate
course of action.
Sergeants are first-line supervisors with primary responsibility for ensuring compliance with the professional
and ethical standards of the Department by all subordinate deputy sheriffs and civilian employees. See MPP
2-02/080.00, Sergeants.
A Department Service Review is an externally initiated supervisory review of the Department’s or individual
employee’s performance. External is defined as those which are received from any member of the public.
Department service reviews shall be documented on Service Comment Report forms. The watch commander
of the unit shall initiate a service review by immediately interviewing any member of the public who offers a
comment. In cases of public input received through the mail or electronic means, the unit commander shall
designate a lieutenant to complete the Service Comment Report form. Complaints of racial bias must be
noted on the Watch Commanders Service Comment Report (WCSCR) form. See MPP 3-01/122.20, Policy
of Equality-Procedures-External Complaint Monitoring, and MPP 3-04/010.05, Procedures for Department
Service Reviews.
The unit commander will assess the complaint and determine the disposition based on the evidence. See
MPP 3-04/010.25, Personnel Complaints.
Data Collection
All significant public contacts and activity (as defined by section 5-09/520.25 - Logging Field Activities) shall
be appropriately logged on the Mobile Digital Computer’s Deputy’s Daily Work Sheet (DDWS). The Mobile
Digital Computer’s DDWS logs shall contain only accurate information including, but not limited to, the race of
each individual detained or searched, the result of the stop, and the date, time, and location of the stop.
See MPP 5-09/520.25, Logging Field Activities.
Assembly Bill 953 (AB 953), also known as the Racial and Identity Profiling Act, was signed into law by the
Governor in 2015, enacting section 12525.5 of the Government Code (12525.5 GC). As 12525.5 GC
mandates, each state and local agency employing peace officers shall submit specific information, referred to
as “stop data,” to the California State Attorney General regarding police practices pertaining to racial and
identity profiling. The following personnel shall make a “stop data” entry into the Sheriff’s Automated Contact
Reporting (SACR) system after conducting a stop. They include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Any sworn member working a patrol assignment;
Any sworn member working a detective assignment, specialized unit, and special task force (OSS,
COPS, parole compliance, federal task force, etc.);
Any sworn member working Department contracted overtime (parades, concerts, movies, sporting
events);
Any school resource deputy; and
Any sworn member working in a courthouse or custody facility where there is civilian (public) contact.
NOTE: Refer to Field Operations Directive 18-04 Sheriff’s Automated Contact Reporting (SACR)
System, and Newsletter 18-07 Sheriff’s Automated Contact Reporting System (SACR) regarding the
above requirements.
This data is collected and sent to the Department of Justice (DOJ) annually as required by law.
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Policy Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department
402 Orange County SD Policy Manual
Bias Free Policing
402.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
The Department strives to provide law enforcement services to our community with the proper
care and concern for the racial and cultural differences of those we serve. It shall therefore be the
policy and practice of this Department to provide law enforcement services and to enforce the law
equally and fairly without discrimination toward any individual(s) or group because of their race,
color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion,, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation,
socio-economic status, cultural group, or mental or physical disability.
402.2 DEFINITIONS
Bias-Free Policing: The provision of law enforcement services, whether in the jails, the courts, or
on patrol, that is accomplished without the selective enforcement or non-enforcement of the law,
including the selection or rejection of particular policing tactics or strategies, based on the subject's
membership in a demographic category. Bias-free policing is policing that is free of discriminatory
effect as well as discriminatory intent.
Biased Policing: The provision of law enforcement services, or declining to provide law
enforcement services, whether in the jails, the courts, or on patrol, based upon the inappropriate
consideration of a person's demographic category.
Demographic category: Refers to a person's race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion,
gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, cultural group, or mental
or physical disability.
Implicit Bias: Refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect a person's understanding, actions,
and decisions in an unconscious manner. These biases, which encompass both favorable and
unfavorable assessments, are activated involuntarily and without an individual's awareness or
intentional control. Implicit biases are different from known biases that individuals may choose to
conceal.
Racial or identity profiling: The consideration of, or reliance on, to any degree, a person's actual or
perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual
orientation, or mental or physical disability in deciding which persons to subject to a stop or in
deciding upon the scope or substance of law enforcement activities following a stop, except that an
officer may consider or rely on characteristics listed in a specific suspect description. The activities
include, but are not limited to, traffic or pedestrian stops, or actions during a stop, such as asking
questions, frisks, consensual and nonconsensual searches of a person or any property, seizing
any property, removing vehicle occupants during a traffic stop, issuing a citation, and making an
arrest. (Penal Code § 13519.4(e)).
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Bias Free Policing
402.3 RACIAL OR IDENTITY PROFILING AND BIASED POLICING PROHIBITED
Members shall not engage in biased policing or racial or identity profiling, and any such practice
will not be tolerated by this Department (Penal Code § 13519.4(f)).
1. It is the responsibility of every Member of this Department to prevent, report, and
respond appropriately to clear discriminatory or biased practices.
2. Every Member of this Department engaging in a non-consensual detention shall be
prepared to articulate sufficient reasonable suspicion or probable cause to justify the
detention independent of the individual's membership in a demographic category.
(a) To the extent that written documentation would otherwise be completed (e.g.,
arrest report, F.I. card, etc.), the involved deputy should include those facts
giving rise to the deputy's reasonable suspicion or probable cause for the
contact.
(b) Nothing in this policy shall require any deputy to prepare documentation of a
contact that would not otherwise involve such reporting.
402.4 STANDARDS OF CONDUCT TO ENSURE BIAS FREE POLICING
In an effort to prevent perceptions of biased policing, in accordance with officer safety, do the
following:
1. Treat everyone with dignity, respect, courtesy, and professionalism, without harassing,
intimidating, or using derogatory language verbally, in writing, or by gesture.
2. Ensure bias-free encounters by relying on information that is accurate, specific, and
free from bias while developing reasonable suspicion and/or probable cause.
3. When initiating a search of a cell, dormitory, or incarcerated person, or when issuing
directives to or responding to inquires from an incarcerated person, ensure that
motivations and actions are free of bias and racial or identity profiling.
4. When initiating a pedestrian or vehicular stop, approach the person(s) being stopped
and provide an explanation for the stop as soon as practical and safe.
5. Ensure that detentions are no longer than necessary.
While the practice of racial profiling is strictly prohibited, it is recognized that race or ethnicity may
be legitimately considered by a deputy in combination with other legitimate factors to establish
reasonable suspicion or probable cause (e.g., suspect description includes a specific race or
group).
The Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department shall investigate all complaints of alleged bias-
based policing or racial or identity profiling against its Members. Members found to be in violation
of this policy are subject to discipline in accordance with this Department's disciplinary policy.
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402.5 TRAINING
1. All sworn Members of this Department shall participate in training prescribed by the
Department.
2. All sworn Members of this Department shall participate in expanded training as
prescribed and certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training
(POST) (Penal Code § 13519.4(g)).
3. Pending participation in such POST approved training and at all times, all Members
of this Department are encouraged to familiarize themselves with and consider racial,
identity, and cultural differences among members of our community.
4. Upon completion of initial POST approved training all sworn members of this
Department shall be required to complete an approved refresher course every five
years or sooner if deemed necessary in order to keep current with changing racial,
identity, and cultural trends (Penal Code §13519.4(i)).
402.5.1 BIAS BY PROXY
Bias by proxy occurs when individuals call the police and make false or ill-informed claims of
misconduct about persons they dislike or are biased against based on explicit racial and identity
profiling or implicit bias. When the police act on a request of service rooted in implicit or explicit
bias, they risk perpetuating the caller's bias. Members should use their critical decision-making
skills drawing upon their training to assess whether there is criminal or non-criminal conduct
regardless of bias.
402.6 CALIFORNIA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT
Members shall not collect or disclose information regarding the religious beliefs, practice or
affiliation of any individual unless permitted under state or federal law (Government Code §
8310.3).
Per Government Code § 8310.3:
• Notwithstanding any other law, a state or local agency or public employee acting under
color of law shall not:
• Provide or disclose to federal government authorities personal information
regarding the religious beliefs, practices, or affiliation of any individual for the
purpose of compiling a list, registry, or database of individuals based on religious
affiliation, national origin, or ethnicity.
• Use agency money, facilities, property, equipment, or personnel to assist in
creation, implementation, or enforcement of any government program compiling
a list, registry, or database of personal information about individuals based
on religious belief, practice, or affiliation, or national origin or ethnicity, for law
enforcement or immigration purposes.
• Make personal information from agency databases available, including any
databases maintained by private vendors contracting with the agency, to
anyone or any entity for the purpose of investigation or enforcement under any
government program compiling a list, registry, or database of individuals based
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on religious belief, practice, or affiliation, or national origin or ethnicity for law
enforcement or immigration purposes.
• Notwithstanding any other law, state and local law enforcement agencies and their
employees shall not:
• Collect information on the religious belief, practice, or affiliation of any individual
except (A) as part of a targeted investigation of an individual based on
reasonable suspicion to believe that individual has engaged in, or been the victim
of, criminal activity, and when there is a clear nexus between the criminal activity
and the specific information collected about religious belief, or affiliation, or (B)
where necessary to provide religious accommodations.
• Use agency money, facilities, property, equipment, or personnel to investigate,
enforce, or assist in the investigation or enforcement of any criminal, civil,
or administrative violation, or warrant for a violation, of any requirement that
individuals register with the federal government or any federal agency based on
religious belief, practice, or affiliation, national origin, or ethnicity.
• An agency or employee will only be deemed to be in violation of this section if the
agency or employee acted with actual knowledge that the information shared would
be used for purposes prohibited by this section..
402.7 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITY
Supervisors should monitor those individuals under their command for compliance with this policy
and shall handle any alleged or observed violations in accordance with the Personnel Complaint
Procedure (Policy 1020).
Annually, upon publication of the Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board Report, the
S.A.F.EDivision Commander shall review the report and the Department's effort to prevent racial
or identity profiling and submit an overview, including public concerns, to the Sheriff. This overview
shall not contain any identifying information regarding any specific complaint, citizen, or officer.
402.8 REPORTING TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The S.A.F.E. Division Commander or the authorized designee shall ensure that all data required
by the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding citizen complaints of racial bias against deputies is
collected and provided to the Records Division to be reported annually to DOJ (Penal Code §
13012; Penal Code § 13020).
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APPENDIX G – AUGUST 24, 2021 LETTER FROM THE
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION TO THE RIPA BOARD
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August 24, 2021
Racial and Identity Profiling Act Board
Calls for Service Subcommittee
ab953@doj.ca.gov
Via Email
RE: PROPOSED CALLS FOR SERVICE CHAPTER IN THE 2022 BOARD REPORT
Dear Members of the RIPA Calls for Service Subcommittee:
We write on behalf of the ACLU of Northern California, ACLU of Southern California, ACLU
of San Diego and Imperial Counties, and ACLU California Action to provide input on the
proposed calls for service chapter in the 2022 Racial and Identity Profiling Act (“RIPA”) Board
Report.
Fundamental Principles for Mental Health Calls for Service – Prioritizing Care First
Response / Least Criminalizing Response
We appreciate the proposed report’s attention to the important issue of mental health calls for
service and support the guiding principles proposed, particularly Trauma-Informed Care, Harm
Reduction, Voluntariness, Violence Free Intervention, Least Restrictive Intervention, Connection
to Care, and Housing First. We write, however, to raise the need for an additional fundamental
principle prioritizing care-focused first response and emphasizing the least criminalizing
intervention – consistent with the proposed chapter in the 2022 Board Report addressing
measures to prevent disability discrimination.1
Mental health calls for service are, by definition, calls related to health needs. Police responses,
which are all fundamentally connected to the enforcement of criminal law, are ill-suited to
respond to such calls. Dispatch systems that prioritize or default to police responses to mental
health calls for service, instead of responses rooted in health care, discriminate against persons
who express mental health needs or who are perceived as having mental disabilities by exposing
them to criminal system involvement on the basis of their needs or perceived disability.
Existing data analysis and recent incidents demonstrate the urgent need to avoid law enforcement
response to mental health crises.2 Our analysis of URSUS data has revealed disturbing patterns
of law enforcement using excessive force against people when responding to mental health
crises. For example, in 2019, every severe use of force reported by the Bakersfield Police
1Subcommittee on State and Local Racial & Identity Profiling Policies, Proposed Report, p. 64 (“Dispatch protocols
may also need to emphasize a preference for relying upon a community based crisis response when they receive
calls involving a person in mental health crisis or suffering from a mental health disability. ...... Policies should
prioritize responses by trained mental health professionals ........ ”)
2 See, e.g., Treatment Advocacy Center, Overlooked in the Undercounted: The Role of Mental Illness in Fatal Law
Enforcement Encounters (Dec. 2015).
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Department (“BPD”) was against a person perceived as having a mental illness or impairment.3
Ninety percent of those persons were Black or Latino, and 70% were unarmed.4 In Orange
County, over 36% of the serious uses of force for which the Sheriff’s Department reported
relevant data were against people both unarmed and perceived by officers to have a mental
disability or behavioral health impairment.5 As in Bakersfield, several incidents involved the use
of a canine attack, and in the majority of cases, the highest criminal charge brought against the
person seriously injured by Sheriff’s deputies was resisting or evading an officer.6
Recent events in Orange County illustrate the perils of relying on law enforcement to respond to
mental health calls even when that response is through specialized crisis intervention or mental
health teams. Since 2016, the County has relied on the Sheriff’s Department’s “Homeless
Outreach Team” to carry out what it has described as its “proactive” approach to behavioral
health. In 2018, Sheriff’s deputies assigned to that team stopped Kurt Reinhold for the purported
purpose of enforcing a jaywalking violation, then escalated a physical encounter and ultimately
killed Mr. Reinhold. Nevertheless, the Sheriff has announced that the Department will be
expanding the team, stating: “The Sheriff's Department often gets called to respond to help
individuals in the midst of a mental health crisis, and we recognized the need to widen our
approach.”
The harms associated with law enforcement response to mental health calls extend beyond overt
physical violence. Too often, the involvement of law enforcement leads to the filing of criminal
charges directly stemming from a mental health crisis (such as “disturbing the peace” or
“resisting or evading an officer”), arrest, and/or incarceration.7 Law enforcement contact in
response to a mental health call can lead to serious collateral consequences, such as loss of
housing or investigation by federal immigration enforcement.8 And the mere presence of
uniformed law enforcement (and the associated threat of criminal system punishment or
3 Cal. Dep’t of Justice, Use of Force Reporting Incident Report (2019); ACLU of Southern California,
Unconstitutional Patterns & Practices in the Bakersfield Police Department (2021),
https://www.aclusocal.org/en/publications/unconstitutional-patterns-and-practices-bakersfield-police-department.
4 Id.
5 Data retrieved from https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data. The data is limited to use of force resulting in death or
“serious bodily injury,” defined as “a bodily injury that involves a substantial risk of death, unconsciousness,
protracted and obvious disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member or
organ.” Gov’t Code § 12525.2. OCSD left the field pertaining to behavioral health impairment blank for the
majority of reported incidents, limiting our analysis. We urge the Board to examine and cross-reference RIPA data
to determine whether by doing so it can complete a fuller analysis.
6 Id.; see also Unconstitutional Patterns & Practices in the Bakersfield Police Department at p.8 (describing the use
of similar criminal charges).
7 See, e.g., ACLU of Southern California & Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, A New Way Forward (July
2014), p. 1 (citing sources).
8 See, e.g., Alisha Jarwala & Sejal Singh, “When Disability Is a ‘Nuisance’: How Chronic Nuisance Ordinances
Push Residents with Disabilities Out of Their Homes,” 54 Harv. C.R.C.L. L. Rev. 875 (2019); Nik Theodore,
Insecure Communities: Latino Perceptions of Police Involvement in Immigration Enforcement (2013).
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violence) can be traumatizing and detrimental to the mental health of already vulnerable
individuals.9
In San Diego, for example, a 2019 report by Campaign Zero found that a quarter of arrests by the
San Diego Police Department for youth were for mental illness.10 Both the San Diego Police
Department and San Diego Sheriff’s Department also were more likely to search and use force
against people with a perceived mental disability compared to those without a perceived
disability.11 In San Diego, the criminalization of people with mental health needs has resulted in
over-incarceration which has contributed to San Diego County having one of the highest suicide
and death rates in custody in the state.12 An analysis by Disability Rights California found that
“detention in San Diego County Jail facilities appears to increase the risk of suicide significantly
for San Diego County residents. The jail system’s inmate suicide rate has been nearly eight (8)
times higher than the overall suicide rate for San Diego County (13.1 out of 100,000).” Last
month, the state auditor agreed to a request from community members and family member of
loved ones who had died in custody to audit the state jail practices.13
We urge the Board to examine RIPA data showing not only the rate at which law enforcement
use force against persons in mental health crisis, but also the frequency with which law
enforcement take criminalizing measures—i.e. arrest or citation—against such persons and in
response to mental health calls.14
Additionally, we urge the Board to add to the list of fundamental principles in its proposed report
a principle that emphasizes that involvement of law enforcement should be minimized to the
extent possible in response to mental health calls.15 In other words, whenever and however the
law allows, responses that do not include law enforcement—such as responses led by medics,
clinicians, peer support specialists, and community-based responders—should be dispatched in
response to mental health calls.16 This principle should apply to both first response and any
transport needs.
9 See, e.g., Patrisse Cullors, “Abolition And Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice, And
Accountability,” 132 Harv. L. Rev. 1684, 1689 (2019).
10 Samuel Singyawe Campaign Zero, Evaluating Police in San Diego (2019), www.policescorecard.org/sandiego
11 Id.
12 Disability Rights California, Suicides in San Diego County Jail: A System Failing People with Mental Illness: A
Disability Rights California Investigation Report (2018), https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/public-reports/san-
diego-jail-suicides-report.
13 San Diego Union Tribune, State Auditor To Investigate Deaths At San Diego County Jails, July 1, 2021 available
at https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2021-07-01/state-legislators-consider-audit-of-
san-diego-county-sheriffs-department
14 The Board should consider analysis of both data on stops of persons perceived by the officer as having a relevant
disability or impairment, and data concerning stops carried out for the purpose of mental health-related welfare
checks or pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 5150.
15 The majority of law enforcement agencies responding to an LA County EMS Commission survey agreed that
individuals in behavioral health crisis would benefit from a response by emergency medical personnel as opposed to
law enforcement if there are not acute violence/safety issues.
16 In future reports, the Board may wish to examine any provisions of state law or components of state infrastructure
that impede prioritizing dispatch of care-centered responses to mental health calls for service.
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Finally, consistent with this principle, we urge the Board to focus its examination of Emerging
Crisis Response Models on models that minimize the dispatch and involvement of law
enforcement rather than longstanding law enforcement-reliant models. The danger of relying on
police specialized teams is well-illustrated by the example of Orange County, described above.
Although the proposed report currently references Los Angeles County’s MET co-response
teams as an emerging model, the inadequacies of MET have been well-documented for years.
The County has been unable to consistently staff MET teams with clinicians, impeding actual co-
response.17 Moreover, MET is both costly and unable to timely respond to many mental health
calls; as a result, Los Angeles County currently suffers from significant service gaps and is
searching for funding to scale up psychiatric mobile response teams separate from the Sheriff’s
Department to fill those gaps.18
Several recent tragic incidents illustrate the deadly flaws present in LA County’s current calls for
service system. In March of this year, Sheriff’s deputies shot and severely injured Isaias
Cervantes, a young man with autism, when family members called for help with a crisis.19 The
previous year, Sheriff’s deputies beat and tased to death Eric Briceno when his family called 911
for help with a mental health crisis.20 Instead of focusing on LA County MET as an emerging
model, therefore, the Board should examine regional efforts to resource community-based and
mental health care-based responses, to avoid and minimize law enforcement response.21
Community-Based Responses to Mental Health Calls
We appreciate the proposed report’s attention to community-based crisis response. At the same
time, we urge the Subcommittee to revise the proposed report to more clearly recognize the
unique and important contributions of community-based crisis responders and to recommend that
state and local officials provide additional resources to community-based organizations so they
can expand, scale, study, and document the successes of their crisis response efforts.
17 Report of the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission Regarding the Mental Evaluation Team Program of the
Los Angeles County Sheriff Department (2018),
https://coc.lacounty.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=NOUC3DWcsps%3d&portalid=35.
18 See Motion: Expanding Alternative Crisis Response in Los Angeles County (June 8, 2021),
http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/158865.pdf.
19 Alene Tchekmedyian, “Family of autistic man says deputies were warned of his disabilities before shooting,” L.A.
Times (Apr. 7, 2021), https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-07/l-a-sheriff-deputy-shooting-mental-
disability.
20 Alene Tchekmedyian, “A family called 911 for son’s mental health crisis. They say deputies beat and Tasered him
to death,” L.A. Times (Sept. 22, 2020), https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-22/eric-briceno-death-
sheriffs-deputies.
21 See e.g., Los Angeles County Alternatives to Incarceration Work Group Final Report, Cares First, Jails Last:
Health and Racial Justice Strategies for Safer Communities (2020), p.2, https://lacalternatives.org/wp-
content/uploads/2020/03/ATI_Full_Report_single_pages.pdf (describing measures to “[u]tilize behavioral health
responses for individuals experiencing mental health and/or substance use disorders, homelessness, and other
situations caused by unmet needs; avoid and minimize law enforcement responses”).
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Across California, community organizations are leading innovative responses to emergency
situations ranging from mental health crisis to housing displacement. The proposed report should
use terminology that clearly recognizes these efforts as distinct from responses led by, for
example, County mental health agencies.22 The report should also recognize that responses led
by community-based organizations are an essential component of a robust and holistic crisis care
system in addition to government-led crisis call centers, mobile response teams, and crisis
receiving and stabilization facilities. Many vulnerable populations—including people with
irregular or uncertain immigration status, people with disabilities, people who are gender
nonconforming, people who are formerly incarcerated, people experiencing homelessness, and
others disproportionately targeted by law enforcement—face significant barriers to engaging
with government first responders because of deep-rooted fear and stigma related to their status.
In these circumstances, responses led by community-based organizations can be more accessible,
minimize harm, and provide more culturally competent and appropriate services.
Some examples of such community-based responses include:
• Mental Health First -- In Sacramento and Oakland, Mental Health First manages
hotlines for residents in need of immediate mental health intervention. After support
teams address the immediate crisis, they work to strengthen the individual’s support
system and connect them to resources.
• Marin County Cooperation Team (MCCT) -- Formed in response to COVID-19, this
comprehensive supportive services organization includes an emergency Crisis Care Team
that operates a 24-hour emergency hotline and is a collaboration between public and
private sectors to integrate services for people experiencing mental health crises, among
other emergent issues.
• CAT 911 -- In Los Angeles, the Youth Justice Coalition and community members are
mobilizing to build a countywide network of Community Alternatives to 911 or CAT-911
teams to operate as both community-based first responders and to provide ongoing
support in response to mental health and other crises.
We urge the Board to recommend that the state and localities provide supportive funding to such
community-based organizations to strengthen and scale their crisis response efforts.23 The Board
should also recommend that the state and local governments support community-based
responders to directly receive and respond to crisis calls through their independent hotlines, in
light of the valid fears that vulnerable individuals may have related to calling 911, and in light of
the lack of developed policies, procedures, and standards for PSAP dispatch related to mental
health calls.
22 In no context should law enforcement response be characterized as “community-based crisis response.”
23 See, e.g., California Assembly Bill 118 – The C.R.I.S.E.S. Act (2021),
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB118.
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Context & Recommendations Directed at Dispatch
The proposed report appropriately recognizes the critical role that dispatchers play in responding
to bias-based calls and identifying, triaging, and diverting calls for service that are more
appropriate for a care-based response, such as mental health calls. The portions of the proposed
report that find a lack of uniform policies, procedures, and standards for dispatchers are of
crucial importance. We write to provide additional evidence supporting these findings and to
urge the Board to further study and make recommendations directed at the dispatch problems
identified.
The proposed report states that “[g]iven the important role dispatchers play in responding to calls
it is difficult to understand why there are no uniform policies and procedures to create standards
for [dispatch] centers.” The proposed report appears to focus on only dispatchers housed in law
enforcement agencies overseen by POST; when all dispatchers, including those operating out of
fire and medical agencies, are taken into account, the disuniformity of policies and procedures
may be even more severe. The Board may wish to examine whether this is the case.
The absence of clear guidelines, policies, and procedures for dispatchers has been documented in
detail in Los Angeles County. According to one official report, there is no uniform criteria that
different LA County agencies use to decide whether a behavioral health emergency call will be
dispatched to law enforcement or emergency medical responders.24 A survey of dispatch
agencies in LA County found that nearly half did not have any protocol for determining if or
when responders with specialized mental health training—law enforcement or otherwise—
should be dispatched.25 Only 18% of dispatching agencies in LA County reported having
standard protocol for even identifying behavioral health crises.26
We urge the Board to take a closer look at the policies, protocol, and training of individual
dispatching agencies to examine whether they adequately address mental health calls and bias-
based calls, and to include the results of that survey in its report for 2022 or the following year.27
The proposed report notes that individual agency policies may limit how dispatchers respond to
bias-based calls but does not include specific policy recommendations for agencies. The Board
should recommend specific policies and goals for dispatcher response, as well as accountability
mechanisms to ensure that calls are dispatched according to those recommendations and the
fundamental principles articulated in the mental health calls portion of the draft report. Similarly,
the Board should examine the sufficiency of POST’s regulatory actions concerning dispatchers.
24 Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Commission, Ad Hoc Committee on Prehospital Care of
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Emergencies, Final Report (Sept. 2016) (EMS Report), 18.
25 Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Commission, Los Angeles County’s 9-1-1 Dispatch and Field
Response to Mental Health and Substance Abuse Emergencies Survey (Jan. 17, 2019) (EMS Survey), 5.
26 EMS Report at 18.
27 Compare Subcommittee on State and Local Racial & Identity Profiling Policies, Proposed Report, pp. 2-10
(review of agency bias-free policing policies).
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Relatedly, we urge the Board to take a closer look at whether or not POST has the capacity and
expertise to design and implement appropriate training for bias-based calls and mental health
calls, especially given that dispatch is not limited to peace officers. Specifically, the Board may
wish to examine POST’s process for developing mental health awareness training for dispatchers
in light of AB 680 and challenges or obstacles related to that process. The Board should strive to
identify whether there are other statewide entities that may be better tasked with dispatcher
training and protocol, and it should make related recommendations.
Finally, in counties where there are mental health mobile crisis response teams, mental health
calls to 911 do not reliably result in dispatch of those teams. Different officials have given varied
rationales for the separation between those teams and 911 dispatch. LA County’s EMS
Commission has described its psychiatric mobile response teams as “distinctly separate from the
911 system”; according to the Commission, mental health responses “are not accessible in the
current 911 system algorithm.”28 Other county mental health agency representatives have stated
that the primary obstacle is a lack of dispatcher training and protocol for referring calls to mental
health mobile crisis teams; still other county officials have cited legal limitations. The true cause
of the failure to integrate mental health responders into emergency dispatch should be a focus of
the Board’s future reports on calls for service, along with recommended avenues for
restructuring dispatch to facilitate care-based responses, in light of the existing statutory scheme
and new legislation.29
***
Thank you for your attention to this comment and to the important issues of bias-based calls and
mental health-related calls for service. We look forward to the Board’s consideration of these
matters at its upcoming hearings.
Sincerely,
Adrienna Wong, Senior Staff Attorney
ACLU Foundation of Southern California
Statewide Police Practices Team Lead
28 EMS Report at 19. This appears to be changing. See Jonathan E. Sherin & Robert Ross, Los Angeles County
Alternative Crisis Response Preliminary Report and Recommendations (2020),
http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/149254.pdf.
29See Cal. Gov’t Code section 53100(b) (encouraging local governments to “develop and improve emergency
communication procedures and facilities in such a manner as to be able to quickly respond to any person calling the
telephone number ‘911’ seeking police, fire, medical, rescue, and other emergency services”) (emphasis added);
Legislative Analyst’s Office, American Rescue Plan’s Major Health‑Related Funding Provisions (May 6, 2021),
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4425 (describing both federal funding for mobile crisis services and pre-
existing state funding for mobile crisis teams); National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020,
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2661/text.
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APPENDIX H – BREAKDOWN OF CIVILIAN COMPLAINTS
H.1 Racial and Identity Profiling Civilian Complaints for RIPA Reporting
Agencies Table
Agency Name Sustained Exonerated Not Sustained Unfounded
Alameda County Sheriff's Department 0 0 0 3
Alhambra Police Department 0 0 0 2
Anaheim Police Department 0 1 0 1
Antioch Police Department 0 1 1 0
Arcadia Police Department 0 0 0 1
Bakersfield Police Department 0 0 0 4
Berkeley Police Department 0 0 1 1
Beverly Hills Police Department 0 0 2 2
Brea Police Department 0 0 0 1
Brentwood Police Department 0 0 0 1
Buena Park Police Department 0 0 0 1
Burbank Police Department 0 1 0 2
Cal Poly Pomona, University Police 0 0 0 1
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, University 0 0 0 1
Police
California Highway Patrol 0 37 0 2
Capitola Police Department 0 1 2 1
Carlsbad Police Department 0 1 1 2
Chino Police Department 0 0 0 2
Citrus Heights Police Department 0 0 0 1
Clayton Police Department 0 0 1 0
Clovis Police Department 0 0 0 3
Colton Police Department 0 0 0 3
Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department 0 1 0 0
CSU Chico, University Police 0 0 0 1
CSU Los Angeles, University Police 0 1 2 0
Daly City Police Department 0 0 1 1
Davis Police Department 0 0 0 3
Desert Hot Springs Police Department 0 0 0 1
Downey Police Department 0 0 0 3
El Cerrito Police Department 0 1 0 0
El Dorado County Sheriff's Department 0 0 1 1
El Segundo Police Department 0 0 0 0
Escondido Police Department 0 0 0 1
Fairfield Police Department 1 0 0 7
Fontana Police Department 0 1 1 0
Foothill-DeAnza College Police 0 0 0 0
Department
Fountain Valley Police Department 0 0 0 13
Fremont Police Department 0 0 0 0
Fresno County Sheriff's Department 0 1 1 7
Fresno Police Department 0 3 2 6
Fullerton Police Department 0 0 2 5
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Glendale Community College Police 0 0 0 1
Department
Glendale Police Department 0 0 0 2
Glendora Police Department 0 0 0 0
Grover Beach Police Department 0 1 0 2
Gustine Police Department 0 0 1 0
Hawthorne Police Department 0 0 0 1
Hayward Police Department 0 0 0 4
Hemet Police Department 0 0 0 0
Hercules Police Department 0 0 0 3
Hermosa Beach Police Department 0 0 0 2
Humboldt County Sheriff's Department 0 3 2 0
Huntington Beach Police Department 0 0 0 1
Imperial County Sheriff's Department 0 0 1 0
Inglewood Police Department 1 0 0 0
Irvine Police Department 0 0 0 1
Kern County Sheriff's Department 0 0 1 2
Kings County Sheriff's Department 0 0 0 1
La Habra Police Department 0 0 0 1
Livermore Police Department 0 0 0 1
Lodi Police Department 0 0 0 0
Long Beach Police Department 0 0 0 4
Los Altos Police Department 0 0 0 1
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department 1 43 6 2
Los Angeles Police Department 0 1 19 19
Los Angeles World Airport Police 0 0 0 0
Madera Police Department 0 1 0 1
Manteca Police Department 0 0 0 1
Modesto Police Department 0 0 0 1
Monterey Police Department 0 0 0 0
Morgan Hill Police Department 0 0 0 1
Mount Shasta Police Department 0 1 0 0
Mountain View Police Department 0 0 0 1
Napa County Sheriff's Department 0 0 0 3
National City Police Department 0 0 0 0
Nevada County Sheriff's Department 0 0 0 1
Oakland Police Department 0 0 2 93
Oceanside Police Department 0 0 1 0
Ontario Police Department 0 0 0 4
Orange County Sheriff's Department 1 2 0 5
Pacific Grove Police Department 1 0 0 0
Palm Springs Police Department 0 0 1 4
Petaluma Police Department 0 0 0 1
Pismo Beach Police Department 0 0 0 2
Pittsburg Police Department 0 0 0 1
Pleasant Hill Police Department 0 0 0 2
Redding Police Department 0 0 0 0
Redlands Police Department 0 0 0 2
Redondo Beach Police Department 0 1 0 0
Redwood City Police Department 0 0 0 1
Rio Vista Police Department 0 0 1 0
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Riverside Police Department 0 0 1 0
Rohnert Park Police Department 0 0 0 4
Sacramento County Sheriff's Department 0 1 0 2
Sacramento Police Department 0 2 0 8
Salinas Police Department 0 2 0 1
San Bernardino County Sheriff's 0 1 0 63
Department
San Bruno Police Department 0 0 0 1
San Diego County Sheriff's Department 0 0 0 44
San Diego Harbor Police 0 1 0 0
San Diego Police Department 0 0 4 14
San Francisco County Sheriff's 0 0 0 0
Department
San Francisco Police Department 6 2 7 12
San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department 0 3 0 0
San Jose Police Department 0 0 3 28
San Leandro Police Department 0 0 0 2
San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's 0 0 2 2
Department
San Mateo County Sheriff's Department 0 1 1 0
San Mateo Police Department 0 1 0 2
San Pablo Police Department 0 0 0 0
Santa Barbara County Sheriff's 0 0 0 0
Department
Santa Barbara Police Department 0 0 1 2
Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department 1 1 0 5
Santa Clara Police Department 0 0 0 2
Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department 0 0 0 1
Santa Cruz Police Department 0 0 0 0
Santa Maria Police Department 0 0 0 2
Santa Rosa Police Department 0 1 0 2
Sierra Madre Police Department 0 0 0 1
Signal Hill Police Department 0 0 1 1
Simi Valley Police Department 0 0 0 1
Siskiyou Sheriff's Department 0 0 0 1
Solano County Sheriff's Department 1 0 0 4
Sonoma County Sheriff's Department 0 0 0 0
South Pasadena Police Department 0 0 0 0
Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department 1 1 1 1
Stockton Police Department 0 0 0 0
Suisun City Police Department 0 0 0 1
Sunnyvale Police Department 0 0 1 0
Tiburon Police Department 0 0 0 0
Torrance Police Department 0 1 0 9
Tracy Police Department 0 0 1 0
Tulare County Sheriff's Department 0 0 1 0
Tulare Police Department 0 0 0 3
UC Irvine, University Police 0 0 0 2
UC Los Angeles, University Police 0 0 1 2
UC San Francisco, University Police 0 0 0 1
UC Santa Cruz, University Police 0 0 0 0
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Union City Police Department 0 0 1 0
Vacaville Police Department 0 0 0 3
Vallejo Police Department 0 0 0 2
Ventura County Sheriff's Department 0 11 0 4
Walnut Creek Police Department 0 0 0 2
Watsonville Police Department 0 0 0 3
Weed Police Department 0 0 0 1
West Sacramento Police Department 0 0 0 4
Woodland Police Department 0 0 0 2
Yolo County Sheriff's Department 0 0 0 1
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APPENDIX I – WAVES 3 AND 4 CIVILIAN COMPLAINTS
FORMS
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I.1 Alameda County Sheriff’s Office
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ALAMEDA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
Citizen's Complaint Form
COMPLAINANT:
Name Sex Race
DOB Driver’s License # PFN
Address City Zip
Home Phone # Cell Phone # E-mail
EMPLOYEE(S):
Names or Descriptions
WITNESS(ES):
Name Address Phone
Name Address Phone
Name Address Phone
INCIDENT LOCATION: DATE: TIME:
DETAILS OF COMPLAINT: (Attach additional pages if necessary)
PD 47 (Rev 02/14) (OVER)
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CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE, Section 47.5 Defamation Action by Peace Officer
Notwithstanding Section 47, a peace officer may bring an action for defamation against an individual who has filed a
complaint with that officer's employing agency alleging misconduct, criminal conduct, or incompetence, if that
complaint is false, the complaint was made with knowledge that it was false and that it was made with spite,
hatred or ill will. Knowledge that the complaint was false may be proved by showing that the complainant had no
reasonable grounds to believe the statement was true and that the complainant exhibited a reckless disregard for
ascertaining the truth.
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE A COMPLAINT AGAINST A POLICE OFFICER FOR ANY
IMPROPER POLICE CONDUCT. CALIFORNIA LAW REQUIRES THIS AGENCY TO HAVE A
PROCEDURE TO INVESTIGATE CITIZENS' COMPLAINTS. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO A WRITTEN
DESCRIPTION OF THIS PROCEDURE. THIS AGENCY MAY FIND AFTER INVESTIGATION THAT
THERE IS NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO WARRANT ACTION ON YOUR COMPLAINT; EVEN IF
THAT IS THE CASE, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE THE COMPLAINT AND HAVE IT
INVESTIGATED IF YOU BELIEVE AN OFFICER BEHAVED IMPROPERLY. CITIZENS'
COMPLAINTS AND ANY REPORTS OR FINDINGS RELATING TO COMPLAINTS MUST BE
RETAINED BY THIS AGENCY FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS.
Per 832.7 PC, complainants are only entitled to be notified of the findings (results) of the investigations, as the
contents of all personnel investigations shall remain confidential.
I have read and understood the above statement.
Complainant's Signature Date
COMPLAINT PROCEDURE: If the incident occurred more than 30 days prior to this complaint, include a
description of the circumstances causing the delay in the above narrative.
After the complaint has been received by a Sheriff's Office employee, a copy shall be returned to the complainant.
The complaint will then be sent to an investigator. When completed, the investigation will be reviewed by command
staff and forwarded to the Sheriff for a finding. A letter outlining the allegation(s) and finding(s) will then be sent to
the complainant.
COMPLAINT RECEIVED BY: Name Date Time
In Person Phone Mail Other
COMPLAINANT SENT/GIVEN COPY BY: Name Date
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I.2 Anaheim Police Department
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ANAHEIM POLICE DEPARTMENT
MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF OF POLICE
The police officer of today works in an extremely complex society. A goal of the
Anaheim Police Department is to ensure that the public is served in a most
efficient and effective manner by highly trained police officers.
To assist us in achieving this goal, you, as an individual, can help by letting us
know if you have a complaint. Be assured that your complaint will be quickly,
professionally, and objectively investigated in order to arrive at all the facts.
Appropriate action will then be taken with the objective to improve our service to
the community.
JORGE CISNEROS
CHIEF OF POLICE
POLICE COMPLAINT PROCEDURE
HOW DO I FILE A COMPLAINT? If you wish to file a formal complaint, it will be
necessary for you to complete a Personnel Complaint form. You may obtain this
form at the front counter of the police department, the City Clerk's Office, any
Anaheim Public Library, the Community Services Office, or by calling or writing
the Anaheim Police Department and requesting that a form be sent to you.
When the Personnel Complaint form is filled out, it should be delivered to the
Anaheim Police Department, 425 S. Harbor Blvd., or mailed to P.O. Box 3369,
Anaheim, CA 92803-3369.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE OFFICER? It will depend on what the officer did.
If the officer's actions were criminal, he/she could be dealt with in the same way
as any other citizen. If the officer's actions were improper but not criminal,
he/she may be disciplined by the Chief of Police. If the officer is falsely accused,
the complainant may face civil and/or criminal action.
425 S. Harbor Blvd
WILL I BE TOLD OF THE RESULTS OF THE INVESTIGATION? Yes. You will
Anaheim, CA 92805
receive a letter from the Chief of Police advising you of the disposition of your
T: (714) 765-1900 complaint
F: (714) 765-1690
www.anaheimpd.org
Commu nit y, Teamwor k, Excell e nc e
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ANAHEIM POLICE DEPARTMENT
UN MENSAJE DEL JEFE DE POLICIA
El policia de hoy un dia trabaja en una sociedad compleja. Una de las metas del
Departamento de Policia de Anaheim, es la de asegurar que al publico se le
sirva de manera eficiente & efectiva por un cuerpo de policia lo mas altamente
entrenado posible.
Usted, como una persona particular, puede ayudarnos a lograr esta meta,
haciendonos saber si tiene alguna queja. Quiero afirmar que se investigara
rapidamente, profesionalmente y objectivamente, para asi poder descubrir los
hechos. Accion apropiada sera tomada con el objetivo de mejorar el servicio a la
comunidad.
JORGE CISNEROS
CHIEF OF POLICE
PROCEDIMIENTO PARA PRESENTAR UNA QUEJA
¿COMO REGISTRO UNA QUEJA? Si usted desea registrar una queja formal,
sera necesario que complete una forma que usted puede obtener en la oficina
de la policia de la ciudad de Anaheim, la oficina del escribano de la ciudad (office
of the City Clerk), cualquier sucursal de la biblioteca, la oficina de servicios de la
comunidad, o puede llamar o escribir al Departmento de Policia de Anaheim
para solicitar una forma por correo. Cuando complete la forma, devuelva al
departamento de policia de Anaheim, 425 South Harbor Boulevard, o mandela
por correo al P.O. Box 3369, Anaheim, CA 92803-3369.
¿QUE LE PASARA AL AGENTE DE LA POLICIA? Esto depende en lo que
haya hecho. Si cometio una accion criminal, se le tratara igualmente como
cualquier otra persona que haya cometido una accion similar. Si fue una accion
impropia, el Jefe de la Policia se encargara de disciplinarlo. Si por el contrario,
se determina que usted hizo una queja falsa a sabiendas, se le puede someter a
un proceso civil o criminal.
425 S. Harbor Blvd ¿ME DIRAN EL RESULTADO DE LA INVESTIGACION? Si. Usted recibira una
Anaheim, CA 92805 carta del Jefe de la Policia, donde le comunicaran la accion que tomo tocante su
queja.
T: (714) 765-1900
F: (714) 765-1690
www.anaheimpd.org
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ANAHEIM POLICE DEPARTMENT
PERSONNEL CO PLAINT/QUEJAS CONTRA EL PERSONAL Case Number:
Print your NAME, ADDRESS and PHONE NUMBERS, BUSINESS & HOME/ En letra de molde escriba su NOMBRE, DIRECCION Y NUMERO de TELEFONO de su CASA y TRABAJO
Print the DATE, TIME and LOCATION OF THE INCIDENT/ Escriba en letra de molde LA FECHA, HORA y LUGAR DEL INCIDENTE
Print the NAMES, ADDRESSES and PHONE NUMBER of any Witnesses/ Escriba en letra de molde NOMBRES, DOMICILIOS y NUMEROS DE TELEFONO de Testigos
DESCRIBE the incident in detail. Begin in the space below and if more space is needed, continue on a second sheet. Sign all pages. / Describa como sucedio el incidente, empiece en el espacio de abajo, y si necesita mas espacio,
continue en una segunda hoja. Firme todas las paginas.
Is the complaint based on racial or identity bias? Yes ☐ No ☐ / Existe un prejuicio racial o de identidad en esta queja? Si ☐ No ☐
You have the right to make a complaint against a police officer for any improper police conduct. California law requires this agency to have a procedure to investigate citizens' complaints. You have the right to a written description
of this procedure. This agency may find, after investigation, that there is not enough evidence to warrant action on your complaint. Even if that is the case, you have the right to make the complaint and have it investigated if you believe
an officer behaved improperly. Citizen complaints and any reports or findings relating to complaints must be retained by this agency for at least five years.
I have read and understood the above statements, and have presented true and accurate facts.
Usted tiene el derecho de hacer una queja en contra de un oficial de policia por cualquier conducta inapropriada. La ley del estado de California requiere que esta agencia tenga un proceso para investigar quejas de civiles. Usted tiene
el derecho a una descripcion escrita de este proceso. Esta agencia puede encontrar despues de investigar, que no hay suficientes pruebas para tomar accion en su queja. Aunque ese sea el caso, usted tiene el derecho de hacer una queja
y tenerla investigada si usted cree que un oficial de policia se comporto de una manera inapropriada. Quejas de civiles y cualesquier reporte o contacto relacionados con quejas tienen que ser conservadas por esta agencia por lo menos
de cinco anos.
Yo he leido y entendido las declaraciones contenidas en esta pagina y he presentado datos exactos y veridicos.
Signature/ Firma Date/ Fecha
FORM ISSUED BY: DATE: TIME:
FORM RECEIVED BY: DATE: TIME:
ASSIGNED TO: DISTRIBUTION: WHITE- Internal Affairs, CANARY- Complainant APD-296 Rev. 7/16
When the Personnel Complaint for is filled out, it should be delivered to the Anaheim Police Department, 425 S. Harbor Blvd. Anaheim, CA
Or mailed to: Anaheim Police Department P.O. Box 3369, Anaheim, CA 92803-3369. Attention: I.A.
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I.3 Fresno County Sheriff’s Office
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Margaret Mims
Sheriff-Coroner
CITIZEN COMPLAINT PROCEDURE
HOW TO SUBMIT A COMPLAINT
A complaint of misconduct by Sheriff’s Office personnel must be made by submitting the
Fresno County Sheriff’s Office Citizen Complaint Form. You may contact the Internal Affairs
Unit at the Fresno County Sheriff’s Headquarters Building, 2200 Fresno Street, Fresno CA
93721, or by calling (559) 600-8031 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on weekdays (Holidays
excepted). During non-business hours, you may contact the Watch Commander at the same
location by calling (559) 600-1650.
The following information is needed to process your complaint:
1. Your name, address, and telephone number.
2. The location, date, and time of the alleged incident.
3. The name, address, and telephone number (if available) of all witnesses to the alleged
incident.
4. The names or other identification of Sheriff’s Office personnel involved.
5. All details of the alleged incident which prompts your complaint.
6. Your signature in the allotted space on both sides of the complaint form.
INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURE
Your complaint will be investigated and you will be advised of the disposition when the
investigation has been completed. After completion, all investigative reports are maintained for
a period of five years.
CONCLUSION
Your information regarding misconduct helps protect the community from possible misconduct
by Sheriff’s Office personnel. Thorough and impartial investigative procedures help protect
Sheriff’s Office personnel from unwarranted charges while performing their duties properly.
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FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
MARGARET MIMS, SHERIFF
CITIZEN COMPLAINT FORM
For Official Use Only
Reporting Person (Last, First, Middle Name) Date of Birth Age I.A. File #
Residence Address (Address and Zip Code) Telephone C/R #
Business or School Telephone Date/Time of Complaint
VICTIM OF ALLEGED INCIDENT
Name (Last, First, Middle Name) Date of Birth Arrested ( ) Yes ( ) No
Residence Address and Zip Code Telephone Attorney or Representative
Business or School Telephone Telephone
NAME OF EMPLOYEE (If known)
Name Division Rank Badge # Car # Description
WITNESS
Name Address Telephone
Date & Time of Incident Location of Incident
Details of complaint. It is important to include as many factual details as possible so that the incident may be fully investigated.
Place complaint on reverse side of form. If necessary, please use additional pages. Also read and sign admonishment on
reverse side of form.
Signature of Reporting Person Signature of Parent/Guardian (if under age 18)
Signature of Officer Receiving Complaint Date
RACIAL OR IDENTITY PROFILING
Does this Citizen Complaint involve Racial or Identity Profiling? ( ) Yes ( ) No
If “Yes” which of the following best describes the type of Racial or Identity Profiling. Circle those that apply.
Race / Color / Ethnicity / National Origin / Age / Religion / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Mental or Physical Disability
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File No.
Date of Complaint
ADVISORY TO COMPLAINANT
Fresno County Sheriff’s Office requires that the statements and reports about officers or other personnel be
verified by a declaration “under penalty of perjury” confirming all statements and reports communicated by you in
this Complaint Form are true and correct.
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE A COMPLAINT AGAINST A POLICE OFFICER FOR ANY IMPROPER
POLICE CONDUCT. CALIFORNIA LAW REQUIRES THIS AGENCY TO HAVE A PROCEDURE TO
INVESTIGATE CITIZENS’ COMPLAINTS. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO A WRITTEN DESCRIPTION OF THIS
PROCEDURE. THIS AGENCY MAY FIND AFTER INVESTIGATION THAT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH
EVIDENCE TO WARRANT ACTION ON YOUR COMPLAINT; EVEN IF THAT IS THE CASE, YOU HAVE THE
RIGHT TO MAKE THE COMPLAINT AND HAVE IT INVESTIGATED IF YOU BELIEVE AN OFFICER BEHAVED
IMPROPERLY. CITIZEN COMPLAINTS AND ANY REPORTS OR FINDINGS RELATING TO COMPLAINTS
MUST BE RETAINED BY THIS AGENCY FOR AT LEAST FIVE (5) YEARS.
“PLEASE BE AWARE THAT PURSUANT TO CALIFORNIA LAW EVERY PERSON WHO, BEING REQUIRED
BY LAW TO MAKE ANY RETURN, STATEMENT, OR REPORT, UNDER OATH, WILLFULLY MAKES AND
DELIVERS ANY SUCH RETURN, STATEMENT, OR REPORT, PURPORTING TO BE UNDER OATH,
KNOWING THE SAME TO BE FALSE IN ANY PARTICULAR, IS GUILTY OF PERJURY, WHETHER SUCH
OATH WAS IN FACT TAKEN OR NOT. California Penal Code § 129.”
HAVING READ AND UNDERSTOOD THE FOREGOING WARNING, I WISH TO PROCEED TO VERIFY EACH
STATEMENT BY ME SET FORTH ABOVE UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY.
“I hereby declare under penalty of perjury pursuant to the laws of the State of California that the foregoing
statements and reports by me are true and correct.”
[Print and Sign]
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I.4 Kern County Sheriff’s Office
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Kern County Sheriff's Office
Citizen Complaint Procedure
Sheriff's Policy & Procedure D-600 Attachment "A"
The Kern County Sheriff's Office strives to maintain a relationship of trust and
confidence with the community. In keeping with this goal, it is the policy of the
department to diligently investigate all personnel complaints in a fair and
impartial manner.
The preferred method of registering a complaint is to do so in person at the
Personnel Division, 1350 Norris Road, Building A, Bakersfield, during regular
business hours.
Realizing this is not always possible, complaint forms are available to the public
at every Sheriff's station. The completed complaint form can be sealed in an
envelope marked "Internal Affairs" and delivered to any office of the Kern County
Sheriff's Office. Personnel complaint forms may also be obtained and returned
through the mail or by calling (661) 391-7470.
When a complaint is received by this department, the Sheriff's Administration
assigns it to an investigator. The investigation is monitored by the administration
and reviewed by the Sheriff-Coroner or his designee. The complainant is notified
by mail when the investigation is concluded. Be assured that if the investigation
finds the employee to be culpable, appropriate disciplinary action is taken.
Personnel complaint forms may be obtained and filed at any office of the Kern
County Sheriff's Office, or mailed to:
Kern County Sheriff's Office
Personnel Division/Internal Affairs Unit
1350 Norris Road
Bakersfield, CA 93308
For further information or complaint forms, please call (661) 391-7470.
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Investigation Due Date:
Kern County Sheriff's Office
Personnel Complaint
Crime Report# _
Complainant's Name: D08:
Address: City: Zip: _
Phone Number: Home Work: Other:
Location of Occurrence: Date/Time:
Personnel:
(Employee's Name, Badge or Car Number)
Nature of Complaint:
(Use additional sheets if necessary)
You have the right to make a complaint against a Sheriffs Office employee. California law requires this
agency to have a procedure to investigate citizen complaints against peace officers. You have a right to
a written description of this procedure. This agency may find after investigation that there is not enough
evidence to warrant action on your complaint; even if that is the case, you have the right to make the
complaint and have it investigated if you believe an officer behaved improperly. Citizen complaints and
any reports of findings relating to complaints must be retained by this agency for at least five years.
I have read and understood the above statement.
Date:
Complainant's Signature
Received by: Date:
Copy Given To: Date:
Authorized: Yes No By: Date:.
(Sheriff, Undersheriff, Chief Deputy)
Reviewed by Investigations Bureau Chief· Date:
Authorized For: Adverse Comment: Handle by Supervisor: Handle by Supervisor:
□ Pre-Investigation □ Not Sustained □ DOC □ Verbal Counselling
□ Unfounded □ Written Reprimand □ At Supervisors Discretion
□ PDSA □ Exonerated
And Clear As:
□
Divisional IA For Policy Violation:
□
Not Sustained
□ □ □
IA Investigation Unfounded
□ □
Exonerated
□ □
POBR Memo
□
□
□
Subject Employee
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I.5 Los Angeles World Airport Police
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4/27/2021 LAWA Official Site | Commendation or Complaint Form
(httpsC://o wwm w. plawl ea. otreg) this form if you would like to submit a complaint or commendation.
*Reason:
*Name:
Name
Cellphone:
Cellphone
Homephone:
Homephone
Email Address:
Email addresss
Mailing Address:
Mailing address
*Date of Incident (MM/DD/YYYY):
MM/DD/YYYY
*Time Of Incident (HH:MM AM/PM):
--:-- --
*Location Of Incident:
Location Of Incident
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Oficer's Name
Summary of Incident:
Best Time to Contact (HH:MM AM/PM):
--:-- --
reCAPTCHA
Thank you for choosing LAWA!
RESET SUBMIT
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I.6 Riverside Police Department
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RIVERSIDE POLICE DEPARTMENT Complaint File Number: For PD Use Only
COMPLAINT CONTROL FORM Police Report/Cite Number:
Location of Incident: Date: Time:
Received By: For PD Use Only Date/Time: Routed to:
Subject Employee: ID#
Complainant: Date of Birth: Sex: Race:
Address: City: State: Zip Code:
Home Phone: Cell / Business Phone:
Business Address:
Email Address:
Witness: Date of Birth: Sex: Race:
Address: City: State: Zip Code:
Home Phone: Cell / Business Phone:
Business Address:
Witness: Date of Birth: Sex: Race:
Address: City: State: Zip Code:
Home Phone: Cell / Business Phone:
Business Address:
Complaint:
Signature of Complainant (Optional):
Email Form Reset Form Print
Mail to: Riverside Police Department - Internal Affairs, 4102 Orange Street, Riverside, CA 92501
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You may also submit a complaint by telephoning the Department at (951) 351-6050 (Watch Commander, 24 hours).
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Additional Information:
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I.7 San Francisco Sheriff’s Office
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Office of the Sheriff
City and County of San Francisco
Citizen complaint statement against an employee or Sheriff’s Office action
Name: Telephone:
Last, First, Middle Initial
Address:
Street (Apt number if it applies)
City: State: Zip:
/ /
Ethnicity Gender Identification # Date of Birth
Incident information
Date of incident: / / Time: Location:
Were you injured: YES or NO If yes, please describe your injuries:
When did you seek medical attention? Date: / /
Where did you seek medical attention? Physician:
Name of medical facility:
Please circle below:
I am willing to sign a medical records release to assist in the investigation of my complaint. YES NO
I have names of witnesses and will provide them to assist in the investigation. YES NO
This complaint is against a single member of the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office. YES NO
This complaint is against more than one member of the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office. YES
NO
Complainant’s statement:
Please describe the incident, including names, witnesses and other factual supporting information. Use
reverse side and attach additional sheets to this form if more space is needed.
1
Case #:
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Complainant's statement continued:
(STATEMENT CONTINUED ON ATTACHED PAGES) YES NO
Penal Code 148.6 – False allegation of police conduct (Notice)
You have the right to make a complaint against a Deputy Sheriff for any improper peace officer conduct
California law requires this agency to have a procedure to investigate citizen’s complaints. You have a right to a
written description of this procedure. California law requires this agency to have a procedure to investigate
citizen’s complaints. You have a right to a written description of this procedure. California law requires this
agency to have a procedure to investigate citizen’s complaints. You have a right to a written description of this
procedure. This agency may find after investigation that there is not enough evidence to warrant action on your
complaint; even if that is the case, you have the right to make a complaint and have it investigated if you believe
an officer behaved improperly. Citizen complaints and any reports or findings relating to complaints must be
retained by this agency for at least five years.
It is against the law to make a complaint that you know to be false. If you make a complaint against an officer
knowing that it is false, you can be prosecuted on a misdemeanor charge.
/ /
PRINT NAME: FIRST, LAST SIGNATURE DATE
SHERIFF’S PERSONNEL TO COMPLETE THE INFORMATION BELOW THIS LINE
Sheriff’s employee who received complaint: Star#:
Date: / / Time: Facility/Unit:
2
Case #:
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Photos: Y N Recorded interview: Y N Medical records release: Y N Assisted with written
statement: Y N
Complainant was able to identify subjects by name or star number at the time of interview: Y N
Complainant was given a copy of written complaint: Y N
3
Case #:
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I.8 Santa Ana Police Department
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SANTA ANA POLICE DEPARTMENT
CITIZEN’S COMPLAINT PROCEDURE AND FORM
MESSAGE FORM THE CHIEF OF POLICE
The Santa Ana Police Department is committed to creating and maintaining a safe, secure,
and enjoyable environment for community members and visitors alike. We strive to provide
fair, courteous, responsive, and effective service equally to all people while observing each
individual’s dignity and worth.
Therefore, it is the policy of the Santa Ana Police Department to accept and thoroughly
investigate all complaints of alleged misconduct by any member of the department. The
complaint process has two goals: To correct improper employee conduct and to protect
employees from unwarranted criticism when their actions were lawful and justified.
The packet will provide you with the necessary information you will need to file a personnel
complaint with the department. You can be assured that your complaint will be given our
full and complete attention.
Should you have any questions about your complaint or the complaint process you are
encouraged to contact the Internal Affairs Division at 714-245-8011.
David Valentin
CHIEF OF POLICE
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SANTA ANA POLICE DEPARTMENT
CITIZEN’S COMPLAINT PROCEDURE AND FORM
The complaint form, which is the last page of this packet, should be used to file your complaint. You can attach as
many additional pages as you need, along with any supporting evidence you might have. A copy of your complaint
will either be given to you at the time you file the complaint or by mail. After you complete the complaint form, sign
and mail it to the address below, or bring it directly to the Police Department.
MAIL COMPLAINT FORM TO:
SANTA ANA POLICE DEPARTMENT – M97
INTERNAL AFFAIRS DIVISION
P.O. BOX 1981
SANTA ANA, CA 92702
SUMMARY OF COMPLAINT PROCESS
After your complaint has been filed, it is assigned to be investigated. All available witnesses will be contacted, and
any physical or other relevant evidence including records, reports, recordings and computer data will be collected and
reviewed. You will be personally contacted by the investigating supervisor for an interview.
The completed investigation report is sent to the accused employee’s manager for review and recommendation. The
final disposition on the case will be made by the Chief of Police. When a complaint is sustained, the Chief will
determine and administer appropriate corrective and/or disciplinary action up to, and including, termination.
State law generally requires the complaint investigation to be completed within one year of the Department
becoming aware of it; however, the Chief of Police can modify this time frame depending on the complexity and
sensitivity of the investigation or due to extenuating circumstances.
After the investigation has been completed and the Chief has made a final decision on the case, you will be notified of
the results by mail.
If the employee receives disciplinary action as a result of your complaint, they have a right to appeal. This may include
a hearing before the City Personnel Board, and you may be required to appear before the Board as a witness.
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CITIZEN’S COMPLAINT PROCEDURES
HOW DO I FILE A COMPLAINT?
We would prefer to talk with you about your complaint in person; however, complaints will be accepted by mail,
telephone, or via the Department’s internet web page,
http://www.ci.santaana.ca.us/pd/commendationorcomplaint.asp . Concerns can often be addressed to the
complaining party’s satisfaction without requiring a formal complaint. You can contact the on-duty Watch
Commander at 714-245-8700 to initiate or inquire about filing a complaint.
WHO CAN MAKE A COMPLAINT?
Anyone can file a complaint, if they truly and honestly believe a police employee has acted improperly.
WHO INVESTIGATES A CITIZEN’S COMPLAINT?
Complaints of alleged misconduct are typically investigated by Internal Affairs Division. Their investigation
is reviewed by the manager of the involved employee and the Chief of Police.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE EMPLOYEE?
That will depend on the results of the investigation. If the employee is found to be at fault, the complaint will be
SUSTAINED and the appropriate corrective and/or disciplinary action will be taken. If they acted properly, they
will be EXONERATED. If the facts show that the complaint is false, the complaint will be UNFOUNDED. In those
cases where the department is unable to determine the validity of the complaint and cannot arrive at any other
conclusions, the complaint will be NOT SUSTAINED. If the investigation concludes that the involved employee’s
conduct was not misconduct but rather an issue of department service procedure, the department may revise
the applicable policy or procedure.
WHAT IS MY COMPLAINT INVOLVES CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR?
The District Attorney’s Office may be consulted on any complaint that alleges criminal conduct on the part of
any employee. The District Attorney’s Office may conduct an independent criminal investigation while the
internal investigation is pending.
WILL I BE TOLD OF THE RESULTS OF THE INVESTIGATION?
YES – At the conclusion of the investigation and review by the Chief of Police, you will be notified of the results
by mail as required by law. Due to legal restriction, you will only be given the finding of the investigation of
whether your complaint was SUSTAINED, UNFOUNDED, EXONERATED, NOT SUSTAINED, or is one of SERVICE OR
PROCEDURE. The department is prohibited by law from revealing specific personnel actions taken against an
employee.
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CITIZEN COMPLAINT FORM
NAME
HOME ADDRESS
WORK ADDRESS
HOME PHONE WORK PHONE
CELL PHONE EMAIL
DATE OF BIRTH
INVOLVED EMPLOYEE(S) NAME ID#
NAME ID#
DESCRIPTION IF NAME IS UNKNOWN
LOCATION OF OCCURRENCE
DATE OF OCCURRENCE TIME
DESCRIPTION OF EVENT (USE ADDITIONAL PAGES AS NECESSARY)
You have the right to make a complaint against a police officer for any improper police conduct. California law requires
this agency to have a procedure to investigate citizens’ complaints. You have a right to a written description of this
procedure. This agency may find after investigation that there is not enough evidence to warrant action on your
complaint; even if that is the case, you have the right to make the complaint and have it investigated if you believe an
officer behaved improperly. Citizen complaints and any reports or findings related to the complaints must be retained by
this agency for at least five years.
I have read and understand the above statement, and have presented true and accurate facts.
YOUR SIGNATURE DATE
OFFICE USE ONLY
SAPD EMPLOYEE RECEIVING COMPLAINT
DATE TIME COPY OF COMPLAINT GIVEN TO COMPLAINANT: YES NO
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I.9 Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
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Santa Clara County Office of the Sheriff
Internal Affairs Division
TheSanta Clara CountySheriff s Office isresponsibleforprotecting thelives of thecitizensofSanta Clara County. Ourdeputies
are highly trained and educated. Theyserve with professional pride, and theywant you, thepublic, toshare thepride.
Thedeputies assigned toField Operations respondtomorethan177,751calls for service annually. Deputies serve as arbitrators
in thousands of cases when theyareasked toresolve differences between individuals orgroups. Many times the decisions made
bythe deputies will restrict the freedom and liberty of thesepersons. Often thesedecisions materially affect the course of
people's lives.
We fully realize thatour involvement in these complex and often emotionally charged situations maynotalways result in a
levelofperformance you, thepublic, have grown toexpect. For thisreason, the Sheriff s Office has a well-defined procedure for
assisting people whowish tovoice theirgrievances againstouroperations, policies, oremployee conduct.
All investigations are thorough andobjective andareaimed atmaintaining public confidence and departmental Integrity. The
goal is neither tocondemn nor toexonerate, butrather to identify and evaluate all the facts surrounding the incident in
question.
Effect on Criminal Prosecution: Theinvestigation within theSheriff's Office of theconduct of its’ officersand the District
Attorney’s prosecution of a criminal caseare two entirely separate matters. If aperson arrested by the Sheriff s Office files a
public complaint against those officers, suchactions will innomanner affect theprosecutor's independent decision toproceed
with thecriminal action.
Complaint Obligation: Amandatory requirement in themaking of a personal complaint againstan officer is that It be made as
accurately and honestly as possible.
Procedure: Everyperson has the right tolodge a complaint against either theSheriff s Office oranyindividual member employed
bythedepartment. Complaintforms are available atall Sheriff's Officefacilities. Whilepersonal contact is desirable, Initial
complaints maybemade bytelephone, letter, or the Internet. The attached form should be completed and returned to the Internal
Affairs Unit.
Whena complaintisreceived, itis forwarded to the office of Internal Affairs Investigations. A thorough investigation will be
conducted. Uponcompletion of theinvestigation, all findings aredirected throughdivisionalsupervisors, along with their
respective recommendations, totheSheriff for her final decision.
In allcases theperson making thecomplaint Is Informed of Its final disposition to the extent allowed by thelaw. Although
department Investigators will exert every effort touncover the truthof such situations, in those instances where the complainant
feels that a proper investi9ation hasnot been conducted, the Sheriff s Office urges that person to seekfurther recourse through
anyof theoutside agencies listed below.
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office Equal Opportunity Department Santa Clara County Human Relations
55 W. Younger Avenue 2310 North First Street, Suite 101 Commission
San Jose, CA 95110 San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 993-4840 2310 North First Street, Suite 100
(408) 808-4930 https://www.sccgov.org/sites/esa/departments_ San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 993-4100
https://www.sccgov.org/sites/sheriff/Pages/sheriff. and https://www.sccgov.org/sites/ohr/human
aspx _programs/equal_opportunity/Pages/eod.aspx %20relations%20commission/Pages/default.a
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Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office Federal Bureau of Investigations Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the
70 W. Hedding Street 2479 E Bayshore Rd #820 Americans Civil Liberties Union
San Jose, CA 95110 Palo Alto, CA 94303 P.O. Box 5303
(408) 299-7400 (650) 251-9520 San Jose CA 95150
https://www.sccgov.org/sites/da/Pages/DA-office- https://www.fbi.gov/ 408-462-2581
site-home-page.aspx https://www.aclu.org/
California Department of Justice U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
P.O. Box 944255 Commission See Phone Directory for Attorneys
Sacramento, CA 94244 96 N. Third St., Suite 250
(916) 322-3360 San Jose, CA 95112
https://oag.ca.gov/contact 1-800-669-4000
https://www.eeoc.gov/
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PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT COMPLAINT FORM
Date Complaint Received: Date of Incident:
Time Complaint Received: Time of Incident:
Location of Incident:
INVOLVED EMPLOYEE(S):
1. Badge #:
2. Badge #:
COMPLAINANT:
Name:
Address:
City: State: Zip:
Phone:
Alternate Phone:
WITNESS:
Name:
Address:
City: State: Zip:
Phone:
Alternate Phone:
STATEMENT/DETAILS: (Provide brief overview of Incident)
Complaint Form and On-Line Form available at: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/sheriff/Pages/iau.aspx
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I.10 Stockton Police Department
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If returning this form in person, we request you contact the on-duty Watch Commander. Your complaint will then either be
forwarded to the employee’s supervisor for inquiry or to the Professional Standards Section. If your concern stems from an
arrest or citation issued, it may not be investigated until the legal matter has been resolved. Questions concerning the
complaint process may be directed to the Professional Standards Section, (209) 937-8697.
LAST Name, First, Middle Home Phone Work Phone
Address City/Zip Cell Phone
Date/Time Incident Occurred Location of Occurrence Report/Citation Number
Police Officer/Employee Name(s)
Witness Name (LAST, First, Middle) Address City/Zip Phone Number (Home/Work/Cell)
Witness Name (LAST, First, Middle) Address City/Zip Phone Number (Home/Work/Cell)
Give a brief narrative of the events that led to this complaint. You may add additional sheets as necessary.
Are you alleging racial or identity profiling (yes/no):
If you are, please indicate the specific type(s) of profiling alleged (Race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, gender identity or
expression, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability):
In cases where it has been clearly shown a complaint was false and filed maliciously against an officer, that officer is entitled to file a civil
action for defamation of character, in accordance with Section 47.5 of the Civil Code.
I have read and understand the above statement, which I have made of my own free will, and the facts contained therein are true and correct
to the best of my knowledge.
Complainant’s Signature X Date
Signature of Parent/Guardian (if complainant is under 18 years of age)
Complaint Received by Date
Mail to: Stockton Police Department, Professional Standards Section, 22 East Weber Avenue, Stockton, CA 95202
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Si devuelve este formulario en persona solicitamos que se comunique con el Comandante de Vigilancia. Su queja sera
dirigida al supervisor de el empleado para averiguacion o a la Sección de Normas Profesionales para ser investigada. Si la
queja es el resultado de un arresto o infracción, es possible que su queja no sea investigada hasta que los procedimientos
legales hallan terminado. Preguntas acerca de el procedimiento de quejas pueden ser dirigidas a la Sección de Normas
Profesionales, (209)937-8697.
APELLIDO, Primer Nombre Telefono de Casa Telefono de Trabajo
Domicilio Ciudad/Zona Postal Telefono cellular
Fecha/Hora de Ocurrencia Lugar de Ocurrencia Numero de Reporte
Nombre de el Policia/Empleado
Nombre de el Testigo (APELLIDO, Primer Nombre) Domicilio Ciudad/Zona Postal Telefono (Casa/Trabajo/Cell)
Nombre de el Testigo (APELLIDO, Primer Nombre) Domicilio Ciudad/Zona Postal Telefono (Casa/Trabajo/Cell)
De una breve descripción de los hechos referentes a su queja. Puede agregar hojas adicionales si es necesario.
Esta elegando perfiles de identidad racial? (si/no):
Si estas, por favor indique el tipo especifico de perfil esta elegando (raza, color, origen etnico, origen nacional, edad, religion, genero,
identidad o expresion, orientacion sexual, discapacidad fisica o mental):
En casos donde se demuestre claramente que una queja es falsa y a sido hecha maliciosamente en contra de un policía, el policía tiene el
derecho de presentar una queja civil por defamacion de persona, de acuerdo a la Sección 47.5 de el Código Civil.
He leído y comprendo esta declaración. Mi declaración escrita contiene hechos que son verdaderos y correctos.
Firma de el Reclamante X Fecha
Firma de un Padre/Tutor (si el reclamante es menor de 18 años)
Queja fue recibida por Fecha
Por correo mande esta forma a: Stockton Police Department, Professional Standards Section, 22 East Weber Avenue, Stockton, CA 95202
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I.11 Ventura County Sheriff’s Office
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VENTURA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
CITIZEN COMPLAINT PROCEDURE
Law enforcement personnel often face an almost impossible task. They must enforce the law in
a fair and impartial manner and still protect the rights of all parties involved. They come in contact
with people under the most stressful circumstances and yet must remain patient and courteous.
They must exercise good judgment at all times, though they are often called upon to make split-
second decisions. They see the worst sides of life but still are expected to give only their best.
Being only human, they make mistakes and may appear to be conducting themselves improperly.
The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office has established rules of conduct for its employees and
guidelines for appropriate corrective action when those rules are breached. In addition to providing
citizens with a procedure to present their complaints, the system protects police employees from
false charges and unwarranted criticism.
The Professional Standards Bureau
A function of the Professional Standards Bureau is to protect the integrity of the Office of the Sheriff
and its personnel, both sworn and professional staff. Only through citizen’s trust and confidence
in their police is effective law enforcement possible.
The investigation of certain minor allegations is handled at the division level by an employee’s
immediate supervisor. Serious complaints are investigated by the Professional Standards Bureau.
How to Register a Complaint
While the Sheriff’s Office does not actively solicit complaints against its personnel, it encourages
any person who believes he or she has a valid complaint to come forward. Only by knowing about
internal problems can the Sheriff or his designee deal with them properly.
You may register a complaint in person, by mail, or phone. If you have a complaint, contact the
Human Resources Bureau, whose regular office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through
Friday. The Human Resources Bureau is located on the first floor of the Pre-Trial Detention Facility
building, Ventura County Government Center, 800 S. Victoria Avenue, Ventura, CA 93009, (805)
654-2375. On weekends, holidays or after hours, you may contact us at (805) 654-9511 or you
may also print a form from our website at VenturaSheriff.org. Complaints may be registered with
any member of the Sheriff’s Office.
It is necessary that as much specific information as possible be provided about the incident,
including time and date of occurrence, location, the employee’s name (if you know it), and names
of witnesses, if any.
Every complaint of misconduct, regardless of its nature is reviewed for an appropriate level of
investigation.
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Investigation of Complaints
The Professional Standards Bureau Commander, acting on behalf of the Sheriff, will assign your
complaint to a staff investigator or to the appropriate supervisor in the employee’s division through
the chain of command. A comprehensive investigation will be conducted.
Upon completion of the investigation of your complaint, it will be reviewed by the Sheriff or his
designee, as well as the employee’s supervisor. The disposition of your complaint will be
determined in one of five ways:
Unfounded The allegation is not supported by the evidence.
Exonerated The incident complained of occurred, but the employee involved
acted lawfully and properly.
Not Sustained The investigation did not disclose enough information to either prove
or disprove the allegation.
Sustained The allegation is supported by the evidence.
Abated A complaint is deemed to be abated due to lack of merit; the complainant
withdraws the complaint or refuses to cooperate with the investigation,
and/or there is insufficient evidence or alternative sources of
information to pursue the matter further.
If the allegation is sustained against the employee, the Sheriff or a supervisor acting on the
Sheriff’s behalf will take proper corrective measures. These measure may include additional
training, verbal or written reprimand or suspension without pay. In severe cases, the Sheriff may
demote an employee or terminate the employee from the Department.
Employees are notified promptly of any action taken against them.
CALIFORNIA LAW PROHIBITS THE SHERIFF FROM REPORTING BACK TO YOU THE
SPECIFICS OF THE INVESTIGATION OR THE EXTENT OF ANY ACTION, WHICH MAY
RESULT FROM YOUR COMPLAINT.
As Sheriff of Ventura County, it is my responsibility to ensure that my office
enforces the law fairly and impartially with respect for each person’s dignity. An
element of that role is to investigate objectively all Department and citizen
complaints as expeditiously as possible. These investigations must be done in
order to get to the truth of the matter at hand.
-Bill Ayub, Sheriff
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CITIZEN COMPLAINT FORM
PLEASE WRITE LEGIBLE
Complainant’s Name:
Address: City: Zip:
Home Phone: Work Phone: Cell Phone:
Witnesses or others involved:
Name: Phone:
Name: Phone:
Date/ time of incident or action:
Location of incident or action:
Was a deputy sheriff involved? Yes No Can you identify the deputy? Yes No Badge
number and name, if known:
1. Is this complaint alleging racial and/or identity profiling? Yes / No
2. If yes, what specific type of racial or identity profiling do you allege? (check all boxes that apply)
O Race or Ethnicity (including color) O Nationality/National Origin
O Gender O Age
O Religion O Gender Expression
O Sexual Orientation O Mental Disability
O Physical Disability
Please use the back of this form and explain, in your own words the action or inaction that caused
this complaint: (attach additional pages, if necessary)
California Penal Code § 148.6 states:
You have the right to make a complaint against a police officer for any improper police conduct. California
law requires this agency to have a procedure to investigate citizens' complaints. You have a right to a written
description of this procedure. This agency may find after investigation that there is not enough evidence to
warrant action on your complaint; even if that is the case, you have the right to make the complaint and have
it investigated if you believe an officer behaved improperly. Citizen complaints and any reports or findings
relating to complaints must be retained by this agency for at least five years.
I HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE ABOVE STATEMENT:
Signature of Complainant Date
FILING A FALSE COMPLAINT AGAINST A PEACE OFFICER MAY SUBJECT YOU TO CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
LIABILITY. If you file a false complaint against a peace officer alleging misconduct, criminal conduct, or
incompetence, you may be sued for defamation under Civil Code section 47.5. If your false complaint alleges criminal
conduct, you may also be prosecuted under Penal Code section 148.5.
VCSO STAFF ONLY: Received by: ID # DATE:
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Description of complaint:
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I.12 Berkeley Police Department
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Complaint Form
Berkeley Police Department
Internal Affairs Bureau
2100 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 981-5706
Complainant’s name address city zip phone
Alternate/work address city zip phone
Gender Race DOB e-mail address
Incident location date time
Division involved (if known) Employee name / badge (if known)
Alleged Violation of Departmental Policy in regards to:
1- Use of Force 7- Harassment
4- Detention Procedure (jail)
2- Discourtesy 8- Police Procedures
5- Investigation Procedures/ Police Report
3- Street detention / Search / Seizure 9- Traffic Citation or Police Tow
6- Discrimination
Arrest 10- Other
NOTE: If alleging discrimination, please circle one or more of the following: race, nationality, gender,
age, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, mental disability, or physical disability
Victim (if other than complainant) address city zip phone
Witness address city zip phone
Witness address city zip phone
What was complainant doing at time of incident?
Does complaint involve an arrest? Person(s) arrested / injured Case number
Complaint received by date time in person by phone by mail other
Have complainant submit own hand-written account of incident on reverse side >>>>>
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Complainant Statement
Please prepare a synopsis of your complaint with as much detail as possible. A sergeant with the Internal Affairs
Bureau will contact you to schedule an interview in which a more complete statement will be taken. If your
complaint is more than 30 days from the date of incident upon which the complaint is based, please explain in your
synopsis the circumstances that caused a delay in filing.
Your signature below indicates that the statement you are making is true and accurate to the best of your knowledge.
Complainant Date
Witness Date
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I.13 Culver City Police Department
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Culver City Police Department
Personnel Complaint Report
File Number:
Date & Time of Occurrence Location of Occurrence Date & Time Reported to Police
Name of Complaint Res. Address Phone Age Sex
Business Name Bus. Address Phone
Witness (Name) Res. Address Phone Age Sex
Witness (Name) Res. Address Phone Age Sex
Name of Officer(s) - (if known) Description of Officers Badge # Uniformed?
YES
NO
Name of Officer(s) - (if known) Description of Officers Badge # Uniformed?
YES
NO
You have the right to make a complaint against a Police Officer for any improper police
conduct. California law requires this agency to have procedures to investigate citizen’s
complaints. You have a right to a written description of this procedure.
This agency may find after investigation that there is not enough evidence to warrant
action on your complaint; even if that is the case, you have the right to make the
complaint and have it investigated if you believe an officer behaved improperly.
Citizen complaints and any reports or findings relating to complaints must be retained by
this agency for at least five years.
I have read and understood the above statement.
Complainant Signature Date
Describe details of occurrence:
Use the backside of this form or attach additional notes if necessary
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I.14 Davis Police Department
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Davis Police Department
MAKING AN INQUIRY OR COMPLAINT
The information on this form can be provided in languages other than English. If you need this
information in another language, need translations services, or need any other assistance because
of a disability, please contact the on-duty Watch Commander.
The public’s trust, confidence and support are vital to successful police service. The public is
entitled to have ready access to supervisors and the police administration that is sworn to serve
them, and have them respond to any grievances or complaints regarding any member of the
Davis Police Department. This access will help foster public understanding of police procedures
and aid in the detection or correction of improper or undesirable practices or behavior by
members of the Davis Police Department.
Pursuant to section 832.5 of the Penal Code, the Davis Police Department has adopted a policy
that provides a fair, orderly and uniformly applied process for receiving, investigating, and
resolving complaints of alleged police misconduct.
Complaints against members of the Davis Police Department may be filed in a variety of ways,
including;
• By filling out this form and submitting it either in person or by mail to the Davis Police
Department located at 2600 Fifth St. Davis, CA 95618.
• By filling out this form and submitting it either in person or by mail to the City
Manager’s Office located at City Hall, 23 Russell Blvd Davis, CA 95616.
• By speaking directly to a Davis Police Department supervisor either in person or by
telephone (530) 747-5400.
• By sending an email to the police department at policeweb@cityofdavis.org or the city
manager at CMOWeb@cityofdavis.org.
• By directly contacting the Independent Police Auditor by phone or email (information
can be located at www.davispd.org).
Filling out a complaint form is not a requirement for making a complaint. All complaints, from
any source, in any language, whether in writing or verbally received, no matter how received by
the police department, will be reviewed.
Although a person is not required to speak to anyone at the police department prior to making a
complaint, if your inquiry or complaint is specifically about a member of the Davis Police
Department, we encourage you to speak directly to that employee’s immediate supervisor. If that
supervisor is not available, you may ask for the on-duty Watch Commander. Any police supervisor
may accept an initial inquiry or a formal complaint directed against personnel, policies or
procedures.
If your inquiry or complaint appears to be based on a misunderstanding or lack of knowledge of
acceptable or desired conduct, policies and procedures, the supervisor may offer an explanation
and attempt to resolve the situation without a formal investigation. If you are not satisfied with an
explanation of acceptable and desirable conduct, policies or procedures, a formal complaint may
be filed and it will be referred to the Office of the Police Chief.
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Some types of complaints may be addressed through the Community - Police Alternative
Conflict Resolution (ACR) Program process - a voluntary restorative process designed to resolve
the complaint through face-to-face conversation with a member of the Davis Police Department.
If you are interested in participating in the ACR Pilot Program, please indicate this below.
Information regarding the ACR can be found at the front counter of the police department or
online at http://cityofdavis.org/city-hall/police-department/alternative-conflict- resolution-acr-
pilot-program.
If you make a formal complaint, it will be thoroughly investigated by an assigned supervisor. The
investigation will usually include a review of all applicable reports, examination of any evidence,
review of any video or audio footage and interviews with all parties and witnesses. A simple
inquiry might take several days to complete, while a complex investigation might take two or three
months or more to investigate and review.
The Office of the Police Chief reviews every complaint. If the Police Chief determines that an
employee violated department policies or procedures, appropriate corrective action is taken. The
Police Chief’s review will also include looking for ways to improve policies, procedures, training,
and service.
FINDINGS
You will receive written notification of the findings of any formal complaint. The possible
findings are:
a. Unfounded –The investigation clearly established that the allegation is not true.
b. Not Sustained –The investigation failed to disclose sufficient evidence to clearly prove
or disprove the allegation in the complaint.
c. Sustained –The investigation disclosed sufficient evidence to prove the truth of
allegation in the complaint by the preponderance of evidence.
d. Exonerated –The investigation clearly established that the actions of the personnel that
formed the basis of the complaint are not a violation of law or agency policy.
e. Frivolous –Means totally and completely without merit or for the sole purpose of
harassing an opposing party.
f. Alternative Conflict Resolution –The complaint is resolved in accordance with the
ACR Program.
If the complaint is sustained, meaning there was wrong doing, the Police Chief will determine
whether the employee will be disciplined and/or receive additional training. Discipline may
include: reprimand, suspension, demotion or termination. State law does not allow the release of
the specific action taken against a public safety employee.
Although we cannot guarantee you will be satisfied with the results of the investigation, we do
guarantee that your complaint will be investigated thoroughly and fairly.
Sincerely,
Darren Pytel
Darren Pytel
Police Chief
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YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE A COMPLAINT AGAINST A POLICE OFFICER FOR ANY IMPROPER
POLICE CONDUCT. CALIFORNIA LAW REQUIRES THIS AGENCY TO HAVE A PROCEDURE TO
INVESTIGATE CIVILIANS’ COMPLAINTS. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO A WRITTEN DESCRIPTION OF THIS
PROCEDURE. THIS AGENCY MAY FIND AFTER INVESTIGATION THAT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH
EVIDENCE TO WARRANT ACTION ON YOUR COMPLAINT; EVEN IF THAT IS THE CASE, YOU HAVE THE
RIGHT TO MAKE THE COMPLAINT AND HAVE IT INVESTIGATED IF YOU BELIEVE AN OFFICER
BEHAVED IMPROPERLY. CIVILIAN COMPLAINTS AND ANY REPORTS OR FINDINGS RELATING TO
COMPLAINTS MUST BE RETAINED BY THIS AGENCY FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS.
Your Name Todays Date
Home Address Phone # ( )
Cell # ( )
Email
Date/Time of Incident Location of Incident
Name(s) of Member(s) of the Davis Police Department Involved (if known)
Name(s) of Witness(s) 1. 2.
Address
Phone ( ) ( )
Additional witness information attached.
Circle One
Did you speak to a supervisor at the police department regarding the incident? YES NO
Would you like to speak to a supervisor prior to making a formal complaint? YES NO
Would you be interested in hearing more about or possibly using the Alternative
Complaint Resolution process? YES NO
If you’ve already spoken to a supervisor, name of supervisor:
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Statement of
Please describe the circumstances surrounding your complaint in as much
detail as you can remember. Please also include what your specific complaints
or allegations of misconduct are.
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Signed
Additional documents attached
DO NOT WRITE BELOW THIS LINE-FOR DEPARTMENT USE ONLY
Supervisor’s Comments:
Name of Supervisor/Member Receiving Complaint:
Copy to Complainant? YES NO Date Employee
Forwarded to Office of Police Chief Date Employee
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I.15 Petaluma Police Department
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COMMENDATIONS
PERSONNEL COMPLAINTS
Everyone enjoys receiving recognition
All Police Departments of the State of
for their efforts. Commendations,
California are required by law to have a
either verbal or written, are one of the process by which citizens may make a
best ways to let someone know that
complaint against police personnel.
you appreciate their hard work. A
The information in this pamphlet will
commendation for an employee of the
assist anyone who has occasion to
Police Department is most often sent
make a complaint against any member
to the Chief of Police. You may also
of the Petaluma Police Department.
advise the employee’s supervisor or
What is a Civilian’s Complaint? Watch Commander. Your comments
can be made in person, by telephone
There are two types of complaints. or by using this brochure.
The first is an informal complaint. This
complaint is normally handled by the A commendation may address any
employee’s supervisor for minor event that you deem noteworthy on the
transgressions. part of an employee whom you believe
should be recognized. This may range
The second type of complaint is the from the display of unusual courtesy or
formal complaint. This is for more professionalism, to significant life-
serious types of transgressions. The saving measures or heroic acts.
formal complaint is lodged with the
employee’s supervisor or Watch Commendations are formally
Commander. documented and shared with the
affected employees.
Who Can Make a Complaint?
A personnel complaint may be made
by anyone. However if the complainant
is under the age of 18 years, we
require an adult accompany the
complainant.
Petaluma,
Ca.
94952
969
Petaluma
Blvd.
No.
Petaluma
Police
Dept.
To:
CHIEF
OF
POLICE
From:
CITY OF PETALUMA
POLICE DEPARTMENT
CIVILIAN COMMENDATION
AND
COMPLAINT PROCEDURE
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE
POSTAGE
U.
S.
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PETALUMA POLICE DEPARTMENT CITIZENS REPORT FORM Will I Have to Testify if I Make a
How Can a Personnel Complaint
Complaint?
be Made? Please print or type Complaint Commendation (Attach summary on
additional paper)
A complaint may be made by telephone, A complainant does not normally have
by mail or in person. The complaint Name: to testify in any formal hearing. During
may be made at the Police Department
Home Address: the investigation you, along with all
or another mutually convenient location.
witnesses, will be questioned
Home Phone: ( ) Business Phone: ( )
The department is primarily interested in
concerning the incident. It is essential
learning of your concerns about police Gender: Male Female Date of Birth: / /
to any investigation to ask all pertinent
professionalism or need for
Where did this incident occur:
improvement in our delivery of services. questions and obtain factual
Name of employees involved: information. Once an investigation is
When Can a Complaint be concluded, a disposition will be
Made? determined.
Name, address and telephone number of any persons who may have observed
or have direct knowledge of the incident.
A complaint may be made at any time. Employees of the City of Petaluma
Name: Phone: ( )
After normal business hours, a have the right to appeal any discipline
personnel complaint may be made with Address:
recommended or imposed. In some
any supervisor, the on-duty Watch
Name: Phone: ( ) cases, these appeals may be heard by
Commander, or by calling (707) 778-
4372. Address:
the City of Petaluma Personnel Board,
which is comprised of three citizens
from the community. You may have to
What Happens After I File a REPORTS OF POLICE MISCONDUCT
testify at such a hearing.
Complaint?
You have the right to make a complaint against a police officer for any improper
The complaint is received, reviewed and police conduct. California law requires this agency to have a procedure to If you have a complaint and you are
assigned to an investigator to look into investigate civilian’s complaints. You have the right to a written description of this unsure how to proceed, a telephone
the matter. If the investigator is able to procedure. This agency may find after the investigation that there is not enough call to any on-duty Watch Commander
resolve the complaint after examining all
evidence to warrant action on your complaint; even if this is the case, you have the will provide you with the options
the facts and circumstances, you will be
right to make a complaint and have it investigated if you believe the officer behaved available.
notified.
improperly. Civilian complaints and any reports or findings relating to complaints
If the complaint requires further review,
must be retained by this agency for at least five years.
it will be forwarded to a Police
Lieutenant for a formal
recommendation, and the Chief of
Complainant Signature:
Police for a final determination. You will
be notified in writing as to the disposition
Date:
of the complaint.
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I.16 Rohnert Park Police Department
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PERSONNEL COMPLAINTS COMMENDATIONS
C R P
ITY OF OHNERT ARK
All police departments in the State of California D Everyone enjoys receiving recognition for their
EPARTMENT OF
are required by law to have a process by which any efforts. Commendations, either verbal or written,
person may make a complaint against police are one of the best ways to let someone know that
P S
UBLIC AFETY
personnel. The information in this pamphlet will you appreciate their work. A commendation for
assist anyone who has occasion to make a an employee of the Rohnert Park Department of
complaint against any member of the Rohnert Public Safety is most often sent to the Director of
Park Department of Public Safety. Here are some Public Safety. You may also advise the employee’s
of the questions we frequently encounter supervisor or Watch Commander. Your comments
regarding our complaint procedures and can be made in person, by telephone or using the
processes. form in this brochure.
WHAT IS A PERSONNEL A commendation may address any event that you
deem noteworthy on the part of an employee
COMPLAINT?
whom you believe should be recognized. This may
range from the display of unusual courtesy or
There are two types of personnel complaints. The
compassion to significant life-saving measures or
first is an informal complaint. This complaint is
heroic acts. We are interested in hearing about
normally handled by the employee’s supervisor
your observations of any commendable act of
for minor transgressions and is brought to the
behavior. All commendations are formally
employee’s attention by the supervisor.
documented and the affected employees will be
notified.
The second type of complaint is a formal
complaint. This is for more serious types of
COMMENDATION
A commendation takes only a few minutes to
transgressions. The formal complaint is lodged
& write or communicate. It can go a long way to let
with the employee’s supervisor, Watch
the personnel of the Rohnert Park Department of
Commander, Division Commander or Director of
Public Safety.
COMPLAINT PROCEDURE Public Safety know how you feel about them and
their service.
WHO CAN MAKE A COMPLAINT?
To submit a commendation, use this form or send
your letter to:
A personnel complaint may be made by anyone.
However, if the complainant is under the age of Director of Public Safety
18, we require that the complainant be Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety
TIM MATTOS
accompanied by a parent or an adult. 500 City Center Drive
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY Rohnert Park, CA 94928
ROHNERT
PARK,
CA
94928
500
CITY
CENTER
DRIVE
ROHNERT
PARK
DEPARTMENT
OF
PUBLIC
SAFETY
DIRECTOR
OF
PUBLIC
SAFETY
HERE STAMP PLACE PLEASE
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DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT (continued)
HOW DO I MAKE A COMPLAINT? ROHNERT PARK DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY Commendation
Commendation / Complaint Form Complaint
A complaint may be made by telephone, by mail,
or in person, at the public safety department, or Your name:
another mutually convenient location. The
Home address:
department is primarily interested in learning of
your concerns about conduct or a need for Home phone: Cell phone:
improvement in our delivery of services.
Sex: Age: Date of birth:
Date of incident: Time of incident:
WHEN CAN A COMPLAINT BE
MADE? Name/badge # of employee(s) involved:
PLEASE PROVIDE THE NAMES, ADDRESSES, AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS OF ANY PERSONS WHO
A complaint may be made 24 hours a day. After
MAY HAVE OBSERVED OR HAVE DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OF THIS INCIDENT.
normal business hours, a personnel complaint (Continue narrative on additional pages, if needed)
may be registered with any supervisor or the on- Name: Phone:
duty Watch Commander by calling 584-2600.
Address: WILL I HAVE TO TESTIFY IF I MAKE A
Name: Phone:
COMPLAINT?
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER I FILE A
COMPLAINT? Address:
A complainant does not normally have to testify
in any formal hearing. During the investigation
REPORTS OF POLICE MISCONDUCT
The complaint is received, reviewed and assigned you along with all witnesses, will be interviewed
You have the right to make a complaint against a police officer for any improper police conduct.
to a supervisor for further investigation. If the concerning the incident. The interviews will be
California law requires this agency to have a procedure to investigate complaints. You have a right to
supervisor is able to resolve the complaint after tape recorded. It is essential to any investigation
a written description of this procedure. This agency may find after investigation that there is not
examining all the facts and circumstances, you will to ask all pertinent questions and obtain factual
enough evidence to warrant action on your complaint; even if this is the case, you have the right to
be notified. information. Once an investigation is concluded, a
make the complaint and have it investigated if you believe an officer behaved improperly. Complaints
disposition will be determined.
and any reports or findings relating to complaints must be retained by this agency for at least five
If the complaint requires further review, it will be
years.
forwarded to a Division Commander for a formal Employees of the City of Rohnert Park have the
recommendation and then to the Director of Signature: Date: right to appeal any discipline recommended or
Public Safety for a final determination. You will be imposed. This appeal process is in accordance
DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT
notified in writing concerning the disposition. with Government Code Section 3300, also called
The Peace Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act.
No complaint shall be investigated until a
supervisor contacts the complainant in person or If you have any further questions, call the
by telephone to determine if a formal complaint is Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety
warranted. Administration at 707-584-2650
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I.17 Santa Rosa Police Department
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I.18 Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office
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What Happens After I File A Complaint?
The complaint is received, reviewed, and assigned for
further investigation. You may be contacted by the
investigator for an interview, if needed. Once the
investigation is completed, you will be notified of the final
determination as follows:
Sustained: Investigation has shown sufficient evidence to
prove the truth of the allegation by the
preponderance of evidence.
Inconclusive: Investigation failed to show sufficient
evidence to clearly prove or disprove the
allegation.
Exonerated: Investigation clearly established the actions of
the personnel that formed the basis of the
complaint are within policy and the law.
Unfounded: Investigation clearly established that the
allegation is not true.
Will I Have to Testify if I Make a Complaint?
A complainant does not normally have to testify in any
formal hearing. During the investigation you, along with
witnesses, may be questioned concerning the incident. It
is essential to any investigation to ask all pertinent
questions and obtain factual information. Once an
investigation is concluded, a disposition will be
determined. Members of the Sonoma County Sheriff's
Office have the right to appeal any discipline
recommended or imposed. In some cases these appeals
may be heard by the Sonoma County Civil Service
Commission. You may be asked to testify at such a
hearing.
What Happens If I File A False Criminal Complaint?
We invite people to bring their concerns regarding law
enforcement practices and services to our attention.
However, anyone who alleges a crime was committed
and reports that to a peace officer, knowing the report
to be false, could be charged with a misdemeanor.
Santa
Rosa,
CA
95403
2796
Ventura
Avenue
Sonoma
County
Sheriff's
Office
Sheriff
Mark
Essick
Complaints
SONOMA COUNTY
Thank You for taking the time to provide your feedback
about our employees. Our Office is constantly striving to
SHERIFF’S OFFICE provide outstanding customer service to our community.
We welcome and appreciate your feedback.
All Sheriff's Offices in the State of California are required
by law to have a process by which a citizen may make a
complaint against Sheriff's members.
Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office will not
tolerate any intimidation or retaliatory
action against any person who files a
complaint against a member of this office.
How Can A Complaint Be Made?
A complaint can be made by telephone, by mail, or in
person. The complaint can be made at the Sonoma
County Sheriff's Office, another mutually convenient
location, or the Independent Office of Law Enforcement
Review and Outreach (IOLERO). The Sheriff’s Office is
primarily interested in learning of your concerns about law
enforcement conduct or a need for improvement in our
delivery of services.
COMPLAINT PROCEDURE
Who Can Make a Complaint?
A complaint may be made by anyone. However, if the
complainant is under the age of 18, we ask that the
complainant be accompanied by a parent or an adult if
made in person or the complaint form signed by a parent
Mark Essick or adult if submitted in writing.
Sheriff-Coroner
When Can A Complaint Be Made?
A complaint can be made with this office 24 hours a day.
After normal business hours, a complaint may be
registered with any supervisor or the on-duty Watch
STAMP
From:
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Rev. 8/28/2017
To:
Please Indicate Type of Complaint:
Sonoma County Sheriff's Office Citizen’s Report Form
Discourtesy Conduct Unbecoming a Deputy
Complaint
Improper Procedure Unnecessary/Excessive Use of Force
Neglect of Duty Other (Please explain below)
Your Name:
Biased Policing (ex: race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability, etc.)
Your Address:
Statement:
Home Telephone: Business Telephone:
(Include a description of the incident. Continue on additional pages as necessary)
Sex: Age: Date of Birth:
Where did this incident occur?
Date of incident: Time of incident:
Name of member/s involved:
Please provide the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of any persons who may have
observed or have direct knowledge of this incident.
Name:
Address & Telephone #:
Name:
Address & Telephone #:
You have the right to make a complaint against a peace officer for any improper conduct. California law
requires this agency to have a procedure to investigate citizens' complaints. You have a right to a
written description of this procedure. Should your complaint be sustained, it may result in discipline
against the officer. We may find after investigation that there is not enough evidence to warrant action
on your complaint; even if that is the case, you have the right to make the complaint and have it
investigated if you believe a member of the Sheriff’s Office behaved improperly. Citizen complaints and
any reports or findings relating to complaints must be retained by this agency for at least five years.
I have read and understand the above statement.
Signature: Date:
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I.19 Sonoma State University Police Department
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COVID-19 Update at Sonoma State Police Department
Sonoma State Police Department remains on campus. Our team patrols twenty-four
hours a day, seven days a week. Currently, the police department remains closed to the
public but our staff is ready to help you during business hours. Contact
police@sonoma.edu or call (707) 664-4444 to reach our staff.
Citizen Commendation or Complaint Form
Submitting a Commendation or Complaint
Sonoma State Police believes in transparency and fostering a sense of community with
faculty, staff, students, and community members in our current policing practices. UPD
is guided by federal, state, systemwide, and campus programs and policies. Our online
web form allows the community to submit a commendation or complaint directly to the
Sonoma State Police Department. Please complete with as many details as possible. If
you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Sonoma State Police
leadership (https://police.sonoma.edu/about/department-leadership).
Investigation of Complaints
After your complaint is filed, a Sonoma State Police Employee, assigned by the Chief
of Police, will promptly gather all available information pertinent to each allegation of
misconduct in the complaint. The final disposition of the case will be made by the
Chief of Police. You will be notified by letter, at the conclusion of the investigation. If a
complaint is found to be sustained, the Chief of Police will determine and administer
the appropriate corrective action.
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Policy Sonoma County Junior College
1009 District Police Department
Sonoma County Junior College District PD Policy Manual
Personnel Complaints
1009.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This policy provides guidelines for the reporting, investigation and disposition of complaints
regarding the conduct of members of the Sonoma County Junior College District Police
Department. This policy shall not apply to any questioning, counseling, instruction, informal verbal
admonishment or other routine or unplanned contact of a member in the normal course of duty,
by a supervisor or any other member, nor shall this policy apply to a criminal investigation.
Adopted 12-15-16 by Chief Lorenzo Duenas
1009.2 POLICY
The Sonoma County Junior College District Police Department takes seriously all complaints
regarding the service provided by the Department and the conduct of its members.
The Department will accept and address all complaints of misconduct in accordance with this
policy and applicable federal, state and local law, municipal and county rules and the requirements
of any collective bargaining agreements.
It is also the policy of this department to ensure that the community can report misconduct without
concern for reprisal or retaliation.
1009.3 PERSONNEL COMPLAINTS
Personnel complaints include any allegation of misconduct or improper job performance that, if
true, would constitute a violation of department policy or of federal, state or local law, policy or
rule. Personnel complaints may be generated internally or by the public.
Inquiries about conduct or performance that, if true, would not violate department policy or federal,
state or local law, policy or rule may be handled informally by a supervisor and shall not be
considered a personnel complaint. Such inquiries generally include clarification regarding policy,
procedures or the response to specific incidents by the Department.
1009.3.1 COMPLAINT CLASSIFICATIONS
Personnel complaints shall be classified in one of the following categories:
Informal -
A matter in which the complaining party is satisfied that appropriate action has been taken by
a department supervisor of rank greater than the accused employee. Informal complaints need
not be documented on a personnel complaint form and the responsible supervisor shall have the
discretion to handle the complaint in any manner consistent with this policy.
Formal -
A matter in which the complaining party requests further investigation or which a department
supervisor determines that further action is warranted. Such complaints may be investigated by
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a department supervisor of rank greater than the accused employee or assigned for investigation
as deemed appropriate by the Chief of Police, depending on the seriousness and complexity of
the investigation.
Incomplete - A matter in which the complaining party either refuses to cooperate or becomes
unavailable after diligent follow-up investigation. At the discretion of the assigned supervisor,
Lieutenant or the Chief of Police, such matters may be further investigated depending on the
seriousness of the complaint and the availability of sufficient information.
1009.3.2 SOURCES OF COMPLAINTS
The following applies to the source of complaints:
(a) Individuals from the public may make complaints in any form, including in writing, by
email, in person or by telephone.
(b) Any department member becoming aware of alleged misconduct shall immediately
notify a supervisor.
(c) Supervisors shall initiate a complaint based upon observed misconduct or receipt from
any source alleging misconduct that, if true, could result in disciplinary action.
(d) Anonymous and third-party complaints should be accepted and investigated to the
extent that sufficient information is provided.
(e) Tort claims and lawsuits may generate a personnel complaint.
1009.4 AVAILABILITY AND ACCEPTANCE OF COMPLAINTS
1009.4.1 COMPLAINT FORMS
Personnel complaint forms will be maintained in a clearly visible location in the public area of the
police facility and be accessible through the department website. Forms may also be available at
other District facilities.
Personnel complaint forms in languages other than English may also be provided, as determined
necessary or practicable.
1009.4.2 ACCEPTANCE
All complaints will be courteously accepted by any department member and promptly given to the
appropriate supervisor. Although written complaints are preferred, a complaint may also be filed
orally, either in person or by telephone. Such complaints will be directed to a supervisor. If a
supervisor is not immediately available to take an oral complaint, the receiving member shall
obtain contact information sufficient for the supervisor to contact the complainant. The supervisor,
upon contact with the complainant, shall complete and submit a complaint form as appropriate.
Although not required, complainants should be encouraged to file complaints in person so that
proper identification, signatures, photographs or physical evidence may be obtained as necessary.
If requested, a complainant shall be provided with a copy of his/her statement at the time it is filed
with the Department (Penal Code § 832.7).
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1009.5 DOCUMENTATION
Supervisors shall ensure that all formal and informal complaints are documented on a complaint
form. The supervisor shall ensure that the nature of the complaint is defined as clearly as possible.
All complaints and inquiries should also be documented in a log that records and tracks complaints.
The log shall include the nature of the complaint and the actions taken to address the complaint.
On an annual basis, the Department should audit the log and send an audit report to the Chief of
Police or the authorized designee.
1009.6 ADMINISTRATIVE INVESTIGATIONS
Allegations of misconduct will be administratively investigated as follows
1009.6.1 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
In general, the primary responsibility for the investigation of a personnel complaint shall rest with
the member's immediate supervisor, unless the supervisor is the complainant, or the supervisor
is the ultimate decision-maker regarding disciplinary action or has any personal involvement
regarding the alleged misconduct. The Chief of Police or the authorized designee may direct that
another supervisor investigate any complaint.
A supervisor who becomes aware of alleged misconduct shall take reasonable steps to prevent
aggravation of the situation.
The responsibilities of supervisors include, but are not limited to:
(a) Ensuring that upon receiving or initiating any formal complaint, a complaint form is
completed.
1. The original complaint form will be directed to the Watch Commander of the
accused member, via the chain of command, who will take appropriate action
and/or determine who will have responsibility for the investigation.
2. In circumstances where the integrity of the investigation could be jeopardized by
reducing the complaint to writing or where the confidentiality of a complainant is
at issue, a supervisor shall orally report the matter to the Chief of Police, who
will initiate appropriate action.
(b) Responding to all complaints in a courteous and professional manner.
(c) Resolving those personnel complaints that can be resolved immediately.
1. Follow-up contact with the complainant should be made within 24 hours of the
Department receiving the complaint.
2. If the matter is resolved and no further action is required, the supervisor will note
the resolution on a complaint form and forward the form to the Watch
Commander.
(d) Ensuring that upon receipt of a complaint involving allegations of a potentially serious
nature, the Watch Commander and Chief of Police are notified via the chain of
command as soon as practicable.
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(e) Promptly contacting the Department of Human Resources and the Watch Commander
for direction regarding their roles in addressing a complaint that relates to sexual,
racial, ethnic or other forms of prohibited harassment or discrimination.
(f) Forwarding unresolved personnel complaints to the Watch Commander, who will
determine whether to contact the complainant or assign the complaint for investigation.
(g) Informing the complainant of the investigator’s name and the complaint number within
three days after assignment.
(h) Investigating a complaint as follows:
1. Making reasonable efforts to obtain names, addresses and telephone numbers
of witnesses.
2. When appropriate, ensuring immediate medical attention is provided and
photographs of alleged injuries and accessible uninjured areas are taken.
(i) Ensuring that the procedural rights of the accused member are followed (Government
Code § 3303 et seq.).
(j) Ensuring interviews of the complainant are generally conducted during reasonable
hours.
1009.6.2 ADMINISTRATIVE INVESTIGATION PROCEDURES
Whether conducted by a supervisor or an assigned investigator, the following applies to members
covered by the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act (POBR) (Government Code
§ 3303):
(a) Interviews of an accused member shall be conducted during reasonable hours and
preferably when the member is on-duty. If the member is off-duty, he/she shall be
compensated.
(b) Unless waived by the member, interviews of an accused member shall be at the
Sonoma County Junior College District Police Department or other reasonable and
appropriate place.
(c) No more than two interviewers should ask questions of an accused member.
(d) Prior to any interview, a member shall be informed of the nature of the investigation, the
name, rank and command of the officer in charge of the investigation, the interviewing
officers and all other persons to be present during the interview.
(e) All interviews shall be for a reasonable period and the member's personal needs
should be accommodated.
(f) No member should be subjected to offensive or threatening language, nor shall any
promises, rewards or other inducements be used to obtain answers. Any member
refusing to answer questions directly related to the investigation may be ordered to
answer questions administratively and may be subject to discipline for failing to do so.
(g) A member should be given an order to answer questions in an administrative
investigation that might incriminate the member in a criminal matter only after the
member has been given a Lybarger advisement and after the investigator has
consulted with the prosecuting agency.
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(h) The interviewer shall record all interviews of members and witnesses. The member
may also record the interview. If the member has been previously interviewed, a copy
of that recorded interview shall be provided to the member prior to any subsequent
interview.
(i) All members subjected to interviews that could result in discipline have the right to
have an uninvolved representative present during the interview. However, in order to
maintain the integrity of each individual’s statement, involved members shall not
consult or meet with a representative or attorney collectively or in groups prior to being
interviewed.
(j) All members shall provide complete and truthful responses to questions posed during
interviews.
(k) No member may be requested or compelled to submit to a polygraph examination,
nor shall any refusal to submit to such examination be mentioned in any investigation
(Government Code § 3307).
No investigation shall be undertaken against any officer solely because the officer has been placed
on a prosecutor’s Brady list or the name of the officer may otherwise be subject to disclosure
pursuant to Brady v. Maryland. However, an investigation may be based on the underlying acts
or omissions for which the officer has been placed on a Brady list or may otherwise be subject to
disclosure pursuant to Brady v. Maryland (Government Code § 3305.5).
1009.6.3 ADMINISTRATIVE INVESTIGATION FORMAT
Formal investigations of personnel complaints shall be thorough, complete and essentially follow
this format:
Introduction - Include the identity of the members, the identity of the assigned investigators, the
initial date and source of the complaint.
Synopsis - Provide a brief summary of the facts giving rise to the investigation.
Summary - List the allegations separately, including applicable policy sections, with a brief
summary of the evidence relevant to each allegation. A separate recommended finding should be
provided for each allegation.
Evidence - Each allegation should be set forth with the details of the evidence applicable to each
allegation provided, including comprehensive summaries of member and witness statements.
Other evidence related to each allegation should also be detailed in this section.
Conclusion - A recommendation regarding further action or disposition should be provided.
Exhibits - A separate list of exhibits (e.g., recordings, photos, documents) should be attached
to the report.
1009.6.4 DISPOSITIONS
Each personnel complaint shall be classified with one of the following dispositions:
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Unfounded - When the investigation discloses that the alleged acts did not occur or did not
involve department members. Complaints that are determined to be frivolous will fall within the
classification of unfounded.
Exonerated - When the investigation discloses that the alleged act occurred but that the act was
justified, lawful and/or proper.
Not sustained - When the investigation discloses that there is insufficient evidence to sustain the
complaint or fully exonerate the member.
Sustained - When the investigation discloses sufficient evidence to establish that the act occurred
and that it constituted misconduct.
If an investigation discloses misconduct or improper job performance that was not alleged in
the original complaint, the investigator shall take appropriate action with regard to any additional
allegations.
1009.6.5 COMPLETION OF INVESTIGATIONS
Every investigator or supervisor assigned to investigate a personnel complaint or other alleged
misconduct shall proceed with due diligence in an effort to complete the investigation within one
year from the date of discovery by an individual authorized to initiate an investigation (Government
Code § 3304).
In the event that an investigation cannot be completed within one year of discovery, the assigned
investigator or supervisor shall ensure that an extension or delay is warranted within the exceptions
set forth in Government Code § 3304(d) or Government Code § 3508.1.
The assigned investigator or supervisor shall ensure that within 30 days of the final disposition of
the complaint, the complainant is provided written notification of the disposition (Penal Code
§ 832.7(e)).
1009.7 ADMINISTRATIVE SEARCHES
Assigned lockers, storage spaces and other areas, including desks, offices and vehicles, may be
searched as part of an administrative investigation upon a reasonable suspicion of misconduct.
Such areas may also be searched any time by a supervisor for non-investigative purposes, such
as obtaining a needed report, radio or other document or equipment.
Lockers and storage spaces may only be administratively searched in the member's presence,
with the member’s consent, with a valid search warrant or where the member has been given
reasonable notice that the search will take place (Government Code § 3309).
1009.7.1 DISCLOSURE OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION
An employee may be compelled to disclose personal financial information under the following
circumstances (Government Code § 3308):
(a) Pursuant to a state law or proper legal process
(b) Information exists that tends to indicate a conflict of interest with official duties
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(c) If the employee is assigned to or being considered for a special assignment with a
potential for bribes or other improper inducements
1009.8 ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE
When a complaint of misconduct is of a serious nature, or when circumstances indicate that
allowing the accused to continue to work would adversely affect the mission of the Department,
the Chief of Police or the authorized designee may temporarily assign an accused employee to
administrative leave. Any employee placed on administrative leave:
(a) May be required to relinquish any department badge, identification, assigned weapons
and any other department equipment.
(b) Shall be required to continue to comply with all policies and lawful orders of a
supervisor.
(c) May be temporarily reassigned to a different shift, generally a normal business-hours
shift, during the investigation. The employee may be required to remain available for
contact at all times during such shift, and will report as ordered.
1009.9 CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
Where a member is accused of potential criminal conduct, a separate supervisor or investigator
shall be assigned to investigate the criminal allegations apart from any administrative investigation.
Any separate administrative investigation may parallel a criminal investigation.
The Chief of Police shall be notified as soon as practicable when a member is accused of criminal
conduct. The Chief of Police may request a criminal investigation by an outside law enforcement
agency.
A member accused of criminal conduct shall be advised of his/her constitutional rights
(Government Code § 3303(h)). The member should not be administratively ordered to provide
any information in the criminal investigation.
No information or evidence administratively coerced from a member may be provided to anyone
involved in conducting the criminal investigation or to any prosecutor.
The Sonoma County Junior College District Police Department may release information
concerning the arrest or detention of any member, including an officer, that has not led to a
conviction. No disciplinary action should be taken until an independent administrative investigation
is conducted.
1009.10 POST-ADMINISTRATIVE INVESTIGATION PROCEDURES
Upon completion of a formal investigation, an investigation report should be forwarded to the Chief
of Police through the chain of command. Each level of command should review and include their
comments in writing before forwarding the report. The Chief of Police may accept or modify any
classification or recommendation for disciplinary action.
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1009.10.1 CHIEF OF POLICE RESPONSIBILITIES
Upon receipt of any written recommendation for disciplinary action, the Chief of Police shall review
the recommendation and all accompanying materials. The Chief of Police may modify any
recommendation and/or may return the file to the investigator for further investigation or action.
Once the Chief of Police is satisfied that no further investigation or action is required by staff, the
Chief of Police shall determine the amount of discipline, if any, that should be imposed. In the
event disciplinary action is proposed, the Chief of Police shall provide the member with a pre-
disciplinary procedural due process hearing (Skelly) by providing written notice of the charges,
proposed action and reasons for the proposed action. Written notice shall be provided within one
year from the date of discovery of the misconduct (Government Code § 3304(d)). The Chief of
Police shall also provide the member with:
(a) Access to all of the materials considered by the Chief of Police in recommending the
proposed discipline.
(b) An opportunity to respond orally or in writing to the Chief of Police within five days of
receiving the notice.
1. Upon a showing of good cause by the member, the Chief of Police may grant a
reasonable extension of time for the member to respond.
2. If the member elects to respond orally, the presentation may be recorded by the
Department. Upon request, the member shall be provided with a copy of the
recording.
Once the member has completed his/her response or if the member has elected to waive any such
response, the Chief of Police shall consider all information received in regard to the recommended
discipline. The Chief of Police shall render a timely written decision to the member and specify
the grounds and reasons for discipline and the effective date of the discipline. Once the Chief of
Police has issued a written decision, the discipline shall become effective.
1009.11 PRE-DISCIPLINE EMPLOYEE RESPONSE
The pre-discipline process is intended to provide the accused employee with an opportunity to
present a written or oral response to the Chief of Police after having had an opportunity to review
the supporting materials and prior to imposition of any recommended discipline. The employee
shall consider the following:
(a) The response is not intended to be an adversarial or formal hearing.
(b) Although the employee may be represented by an uninvolved representative or legal
counsel, the response is not designed to accommodate the presentation of testimony
or witnesses.
(c) The employee may suggest that further investigation could be conducted or the
employee may offer any additional information or mitigating factors for the Chief of
Police to consider.
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(d) In the event that the Chief of Police elects to cause further investigation to be
conducted, the employee shall be provided with the results prior to the imposition of
any discipline.
(e) The employee may thereafter have the opportunity to further respond orally or in
writing to the Chief of Police on the limited issues of information raised in any
subsequent materials.
1009.12 RESIGNATIONS/RETIREMENTS PRIOR TO DISCIPLINE
In the event that a member tenders a written resignation or notice of retirement prior to the
imposition of discipline, it shall be noted in the file. The tender of a resignation or retirement by
itself shall not serve as grounds for the termination of any pending investigation or discipline.
1009.13 POST-DISCIPLINE APPEAL RIGHTS
Non-probationary employees have the right to appeal a suspension without pay, punitive transfer,
demotion, reduction in pay or step, or termination from employment. The employee has the right to
appeal using the procedures established by any collective bargaining agreement, Memorandum
of Understanding and/or personnel rules.
In the event of punitive action against an employee covered by the POBR, the appeal process
shall be in compliance with Government Code § 3304 and Government Code § 3304.5.
During any administrative appeal, evidence that an officer has been placed on a Brady list or is
otherwise subject to Brady restrictions may not be introduced unless the underlying allegations of
misconduct have been independently established. Thereafter, such Brady evidence shall be
limited to determining the appropriateness of the penalty (Government Code § 3305.5).
1009.14 PROBATIONARY EMPLOYEES AND OTHER MEMBERS
At-will and probationary employees and those members other than non-probationary employees
may be released from employment for non-disciplinary reasons (e.g., failure to meet standards)
without adherence to the procedures set forth in this policy or any right to appeal. However, any
probationary officer subjected to an investigation into allegations of misconduct shall be entitled
to those procedural rights, as applicable, set forth in the Peace Officer Bill of Rights (Government
Code § 3303; Government Code § 3304). At-will, probationary employees and those other than
non-probationary employees subjected to discipline or termination as a result of allegations of
misconduct shall not be deemed to have acquired a property interest in their position, but shall be
given the opportunity to appear before the Chief of Police or authorized designee for a non-
evidentiary hearing for the sole purpose of attempting to clear their name or liberty interest. There
shall be no further opportunity for appeal beyond the liberty interest hearing and the decision of
the Chief of Police shall be final.
1009.15 RETENTION OF PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION FILES
All personnel complaints shall be maintained in accordance with the established records retention
schedule and as described in the Personnel Files Policy.
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I.21 Cotati Police Department
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(Detach this form from pamphlet)
HOW CAN A PERSONNEL WILL I HAVE TO TESTIFY IF I
Cotati Police Department Citizens Report Form
COMPLAINT BE MADE? MAKE A COMPLAINT?
Please Print or Type Complaint or Commendation
Your Name
A complaint may be made by A complainant does not normally
telephone, by mail, online at Home Address have to testify in any formal hearing.
www.ci.cotati.ca.us or in person. Home Telephone Business Telephone During the investigation you, along
The complaint may be made at the Sex Age Date of Birth with all witnesses, will be questioned
Police Department, or another Where did this incident occur? concerning the incident. It is
mutually convenient location. The Date of incident Time of incident essential to any investigation to ask
department is primarily interested in Name/ badge number of employee(s) involved all pertinent questions and obtain
issues of concern to you or a need Please provide the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of any persons who factual information. Once an
for improving our delivery of may have observed or have direct knowledge of this incident. investigation is concluded, a
services. Name: disposition will be determined.
Address & Telephone #
WHEN CAN A COMPLAINT BE Name Employees of the City of Cotati
MADE? have the right to appeal any
Address & Telephone #
discipline recommended or imposed.
Name
A complaint may be received 24 In some cases, you may be asked to
Address & Telephone #
hours a day. After normal business testify at such a hearing.
FALSE REPORTS OF POLICE MISCONDUCT
hours, a personnel complaint may
Penal Code Section 148.6
be registered with any supervisor or
“YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE A COMPLAINT AGAINST A POLICE OFFICER FOR ANY
the on-duty Watch Commander, or IMPROPER POLICE CONDUCT. CALIFORNIA LAW REQUIRES THIS AGENCY TO HAVE A
by calling 792-4611. PROCEDURE TO INVESTIGATE CITIZENS’ COMPLAINTS. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO A WRITTEN
DESCRIPTION OF THIS PROCEDURE. THIS AGENCY MAY FIND, AFTER INVESTIGATION, THAT
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER I FILE THERE IS NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO WARRANT ACTION ON YOUR COMPLAINT; EVEN IF
A COMPLAINT? THIS IS THE CASE, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE THE COMPLAINT AND HAVE IT
INVESTIGATED IF YOU BELIEVE AN OFFICER BEHAVED IMPROPERLY. CITIZEN COMPLAINTS
AND ANY REPORTS OR FINDINGS RELATED TO COMPLAINTS MUST BE RETAINED BY THIS
The complaint is received,
AGENCY FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS.
reviewed and assigned to a
supervisor for further investigation.
IT IS AGAINST THE LAW TO MAKE A COMPLAINT THAT YOU KNOW TO BE FALSE.
If the supervisor is able to resolve
the complaint after examining all the
I have read and understood the above statement.
facts and circumstances, you will be
notified.
Complainant Signature
If the complaint requires further
review, it will be forwarded to the
STATEMENT
Chief of Police for a final
(Start the narrative on additional pages)
determination. You will be notified in If you have any further questions,
Include description of incident
writing concerning the disposition of call the Cotati Police Department at
the complaint. 792-4611.
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APPENDIX J – POST QUALITY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
EVALUATION FORM (FORM NO. 2-341)
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Commission on
State of California – Department of Justice
Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)
TRAINING EVALUATION – COURSE &
860 Stillwater Road, Suite 100
INSTRUCTOR ASSESSMENT West Sacramento, CA 95605-1630
POST 2-341 (Revised 04/21)
PRESENTATION INFORMATION
Course title Control number Date
to
Instructor Evaluator
Agency/presenter City Zip
Number of students Maximum number of students allowed
Course coordinator Email Phone
Instructor number of for this course
REQUIRED POST DOCUMENTATION
Expanded Course Outline Yes No N/A
Resumes Safety Briefing Performed
Hourly Distribution Safety Policies Reviewed
Budget Instructor/Student Ratio
Notes:
INSTRUCTION AND FACILITATION
NEEDS
DIMENSION UNACCEPTABLE MEETS STANDARD ABOVE STANDARD N/A
IMPROVEMENT
Facilitation Skills (as
appropriate for the
Instructor only lectured. Instructor missed Instructor maintained a Instructor used student
lesson):
Did not allow opportunities to student-centered backgrounds and
Instructor opportunity for student engage students. Did learning environment. experiences in
communicated clearly, feedback, not use questioning Used active listening facilitating class
used active listening engagement, or techniques to promote skills. Engaged dialogue. Posed
skills, engaged participation. student dialogue. students in open- questions back to the
students with Relied too ended questions. class when able.
thoughtful questions, heavily on lecture. Promoted student Encouraged all
promoted student participation in their students to participate
engagement. own learning. Used in the learning.
lecture as appropriate.
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Comments:
NEEDS
DIMENSION UNACCEPTABLE MEETS STANDARD ABOVE STANDARD N/A
IMPROVEMENT
Subject Matter
Expertise:
Instructor did not Instructor lacked Instructor had Instructor had extensive
Instructor was up to appear to have knowledge and sufficient knowledge of credentials and
date, well versed in the sufficient knowledge in appeared to lack the topic. Was well experience in the
course material, was the topic and lacks credibility with versed in the course course subject material.
readily able to answer credibility with students. Had difficulty material. Instructor He/she was well
questions. students. Had difficulty answering questions. was up to date with versed, could readily
answering student current trends. answer all student
questions. Offered no questions, served as an
evidence that he/she is example of an expert in
keeping up with latest the field.
trends. Teaching was
contradictory to the
lesson. Instructor was
unfamiliar with the
lesson.
Comments:
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Time
Management:
Instructor failed to Instructor had trouble Instructor kept to a Instructor effectively
Satisfied the learning keep to a time keeping to a time time schedule that changed or adjusted the
objectives at an schedule. Was rushed, schedule. Sometimes enabled him/her to learning environment
acceptable pace in the unable to meet the missed student breaks. cover all necessary during the course of
time allotted. objectives. Dismissed Ran over the information while instruction to meet
class early despite not scheduled ending time maintaining student student needs and
covering all material. or was too far under breaks and class learning objectives.
the scheduled ending dismissal times. Allowed time for
time. Did not meet students to go beyond
objectives before the lesson and/or
dismissing class. expand. Adjusted time
for students to ask
questions and answer
their questions.
Comments:
NEEDS
DIMENSION UNACCEPTABLE MEETS STANDARD ABOVE STANDARD N/A
IMPROVEMENT
Professionalism:
Attitude, language, Instructor conduct was Instructor did not Instructor was Instructor was dressed
conduct, and attire unacceptable for a appear to be prepared prepared for the appropriately given the
were appropriate. professional training for training, was training, was dressed training environment,
environment. Used dressed appropriately given the did not use profanity.
unnecessary profanity inappropriately given training environment, Communicated clearly
outside the scope of the environment, used refrained from using using proper grammar.
course material, profanity when profanity. Treated all Treated all students
inappropriate attire, unnecessary or not students with respect. with respect. Was
displayed a poor part of the curriculum. Displayed a positive enthusiastic about
attitude toward the attitude. teaching. Maintained a
students or the course professional demeanor.
material. Treated instruction and
students as a priority.
Comments:
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Learning Resource
Management:
Instructor did not use Instructor used a Instructor used a Instruction was entirely
The use of technology instructional resources. minimal number of variety of methods and student-centered with a
and other instructional Did not promote instructional resources tools to support wide variety of
resources (PPT, web- engaging student (e.g., PowerPoint only) student-centered engaging classroom
based resources, learning using delivery in delivering course learning (PPT, web- activities using multiple
easel pads/handouts resources. Did not material. Missed based resources, resources. Instructor
(including virtual), provide reference opportunities to easel pads/handouts provided students with
breakout rooms, etc. to material for use during enhance the class with including virtual), useful resources for use
enhance curriculum or after the class. engaging resources. breakout rooms, etc. to during and after the
delivery. Reference enhance curriculum course with direct
material could include delivery as application to skills
internet links, appropriate. Provided used on the job.
suggested videos, reference/resource
experts, or other material.
training material.
Comments:
NEEDS
DIMENSION UNACCEPTABLE MEETS STANDARD ABOVE STANDARD N/A
IMPROVEMENT
Classroom
Management:
Inflexible and Recognized student Maintained empathy Promoted a student-
The instructor was unresponsive to learning needs but with students, centered learning
flexible and responsive student learning struggles with flexible identified emergent environment to guide
to student learning needs. Unable to delivery. Somewhat learning needs, and learning process while
needs. resolve interruptions, resolved interruptions, made purposeful also assuring learning
distractions, and/or distractions, and/or course revisions on the outcomes were met.
disruptive students in disruptive students in fly. Identified risk Took potentially
class. class. management issues disruptive situation(s)
and resolved any and turned it into a
potential distractions teachable moment
immediately to return while maintaining tact
the class to an and an effective
effective learning learning environment.
environment.
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Comments:
Real World
Application:
Instruction did not Instructor missed Instructor established Instructor established
Presentation included provide relevant opportunities to relevance, provided relevance, provided
instruction that information for connect curriculum instruction and instruction and
provided knowledge, application in real- with real- world curriculum that had curriculum that had
skills, and abilities in world context application. Relied too real- world or tangible real-world or tangible
real world application. heavily on lecture with application outside the application outside the
limited opportunities classroom. classroom. Instructor
for students to apply incorporated effective
the material. learning activities that
enabled students to
experience hands-on
application.
Comments:
NEEDS
DIMENSION UNACCEPTABLE MEETS STANDARD ABOVE STANDARD N/A
IMPROVEMENT
Instructional
Methods:
Instructor did not Instructor missed Instructor used a Instructor delivered
Delivery applied to a address different opportunities to variety of delivery information in ways that
variety of learning student learning styles address different methods applicable to involved all learning
styles (visual/auditory/ at all. Used delivery student learning style different learning styles styles, fully utilized
tactile/kinesthetic), methods that did not needs. Focused too and learning domains RIDEM principles
used activities, and allow for student much on one learning as appropriate for the (Relevance,
learning domains centered learning. domain when the course. Involvement, Discovery,
(cognitive, affective, curriculum or topic Experience, Modeling).
psychomotor) as crossed multiple Incorporated learning
appropriate. domains. domains as appropriate
for the instruction.
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Comments:
Learner Validation:
Student learning was Instructor did not Instructor missed Instructor utilized a Instructor used multiple
measured or measure student skills opportunities to form of testing to opportunities for
demonstrated. or comprehension or validate learning, or demonstrate students to individually
provided answers the testing was knowledge or skills demonstrate their
without requiring inappropriate for the (written testing, group knowledge of the
students to curriculum (e.g., no discussion feedback, course material.
demonstrate skills demonstrations student Q&A,
knowledge retention. in psychomotor application
skills, etc.). demonstration, etc.).
Comments:
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Additional Comments:
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Additional Comments:
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APPENDIX K – RIPA BOARD OCTOBER 22, 2021 LETTER TO
POST REGARDING AB 846 REGULATIONS AND POST’S
NOVEMBER 16, 2021 LETTER IN RESPONSE
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State of California Racial and Identity
Profiling Advisory Board
RIPA BOARD c/o
1515 CLAY STREET, 20TH FLOOR
P.O. BOX 70550
OAKLAND, CA 94612-0550
Public: (510) 879-3311
Facsimile: (510) 622-2270
October 22, 2021
California Commission on POST
Attention: Rulemaking
860 Stillwater Road, Suite 100
West Sacramento, CA 95605-1630
Via email to melani.singley@post.ca.gov
RE: Comment on proposed amendments to Commission on Peace Officer Standards and
Training (POST) regulations implementing Assembly Bill 846
Dear Commission on POST:
We respectfully write on behalf of the State of California’s Racial and Identity Profiling and
Advisory Board (RIPA Board) to provide public comment on the Commission’s proposed
regulations implementing Assembly Bill (AB) 846 noticed on September 10, 2021. Specifically,
we write to provide recommendations regarding the assessment of explicit bias of a peace officer
candidate’s social media accounts and revisions to proposed amendments to POST Commission
Regulations 1953(g)(1) and 1955(d)(3), discussed fully below. While we recognize that some
agencies have already implemented these recommendations, we feel it is important to ensure
consistency throughout the profession.
1. Recommendation to Require Investigators and Evaluators to Assess Peace Officer
Candidates’ Social Media Accounts For Explicit Bias
The Board proposes an amendment to Section 1953, subdivision (g)(1) and Section 1955,
subdivision (d)(3) to require background investigators and psychological evaluators to
specifically assess candidates for peace officer employment for bias in their public-facing social
media accounts. While the proposed Bias Assessment Framework includes “social media
postings” as an example of “Aggravating or Facilitative Factors” that may be considered when
determining whether an applicant has exhibited biased behavior, the proposed regulation does
not specifically require investigators and evaluators to search and evaluate an applicant’s social
media profile—including prior postings, affiliations, and conduct reflecting agreement or
opposition to others’ postings. We believe that such an investigation and review is necessary to
accomplish the purposes of AB 846 as envisioned by the Legislature in its adoption.
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Assembly Bill 846 directed POST to develop regulations and screening material that
incorporated procedures for identifying both explicit and implicit bias. (See Penal Code 1031.3,
subd. (a).) Advocates of the legislation cited the firing of four San Jose police officers engaged in
an “online ring of hate” on Facebook as an example of the type of racism and bigotry that needs
to be screened out of policing agencies.1 Social media has been a rich source for finding explicit
biases among law enforcement nationwide. As the RIPA Board identified in its 2021 report, the
Plain View Project, an advocacy group formed in 2016, found thousands of troubling Facebook
posts that included racist or otherwise offensive language, leading several departments
nationwide to conduct investigations of their officers.2 Of the Facebook accounts that Plain View
researchers could identify as belonging to officers or retired officers, about 1 in 5 of the current
officers and 2 in 5 of the retired officers made public posts or comments that included biased
language or otherwise undermined confidence or trust in law enforcement by using
dehumanizing language or praising violence.3 California agencies, including the Los Angeles
Sheriff’s Department and the San Francisco Police Department, have had to address biased social
media posts by deputies and officers.4
In these investigations, researchers have found that this behavior by law enforcement on social
media may be consistent with those officers’ actions towards the public they serve. For instance,
the Plain View project found that “[o]f 327 officers in Philadelphia who posted troubling
content, more than a third — 138 officers — appeared to have had one or more federal civil
rights lawsuits filed against them, [. . . and while the] Facebook posts were not specifically
connected to incidents that were the subject of lawsuits . . . in some cases the officers were
supporting conduct, like using Tasers to subdue suspects, that could mirror the kind of conduct
raised in complaints.”5 But even without direct evidence of officers engaging in conduct against
the community that mirrors the biased views espoused in their social media, the mere fact that
officers endorse such views elicits deeper concerns of affiliations with white supremacist groups
1 See Assembly Floor Analysis, August 29, 2020,
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB846
2 The Plain View Project, About the Project <https://www.plainviewproject.org/about> (as of Dec. 14,
2020), and see Andone, This group found thousands of offensive Facebook comments by police. Here's
what you should know, CNN.com (June 20, 2019) < https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/us/plain-view-
project-what-is/index.html> (as of Dec. 14, 2020)
3 https://www.injusticewatch.org/interactives/cops-troubling-facebook-posts-revealed/
4 Chabria, When cops abuse social media, the results are explosive: ‘One post can become a movement,’
Los Angeles Times (Oct. 13, 2020) <https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-13/cops-social-
media-dangerous-combo-era-racialreckoning> [describing a Facebook post by a Los Angeles County
Sheriff’s Captain, stating that Andres Guardado, a Salvadoran American killed by a deputy in Gardena,
“chose his fate”] (as of Dec. 14, 2020); Fuller, San Francisco Police Chief Releases Officers’ Racist
Texts, N.Y. Times (April 29, 2016) < https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/us/san-francisco-police-
ordersofficers-to-complete-anti-harassment-class.html> (as of Dec. 14, 2020).
5 https://www.injusticewatch.org/interactives/cops-troubling-facebook-posts-revealed/
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and extremist groups6, as well as concerns that officers are carrying out their duties while driven
by bigotry.7
Moreover, given limitations in the available tools for identifying and screening implicit biases
that may manifest in disparate treatment of individuals based on racial, religious, or other
identities, POST should ensure that agencies are relying upon all available measures of bias—
particularly those that have already been observed as strongly correlated to biased policing and
community harm.
For these reasons, the RIPA Board recommends that the regulations require background
investigators and evaluators to specifically assess peace officer candidates’ public-facing social
media accounts for evidence of bias.
2. Recommendation to Amend Proposed Section 1953, subdivision (g)(1) Documentation
and Reporting: Background Narrative Report/Investigator Requirements
Section 1953, subdivision (g)(1) requires “that the background investigator summarize the
background investigation results in a narrative report that includes sufficient information for the
reviewing authority to extend, as appropriate, a conditional offer of employment. The report shall
reference the Background Investigation Dimensions and include any findings of biased behaviors
and/or bias-relevant traits and attributes per the Bias Assessment Framework.”8 While the
regulation attempts to provide some guidance to the investigator in assessing bias and making
determinations for employment suitability, it does not require the investigator to provide clear
investigative findings with respect to the targeted constructs: biased behaviors, biased attitudes,
and biased relevant traits and attributes.
The Board recommends amending Section 1953, subd. (g)(1), Background Narrative
Report/Investigator Requirements, to explicitly require the investigator to report findings of the
investigation based upon each targeted construct (behavior, attitudes, traits and attributes) of the
candidate. Reported findings should clearly explain the investigator’s assessment of the
candidate for each construct while incorporating and accounting for sources used, evidence used,
6 2 Federal Bureau of Investigation, Counterterrorism Policy Directive and Policy Guide (April 1, 2015)
89
<https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3423189/CT-Excerpt.pdf> (as of Dec. 14, 2020); Levin,
White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says, The Guardian (Aug. 27,
2020) < https://www.theguardian.com/usnews/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-
police-report> (as of Dec. 14, 2020). See also https://www.npr.org/2021/10/06/1043651361/oath-
keepers-california-sheriff-chad-bianco-january-6-us-capitol (discovery that Riverside County Sheriff was
a dues-paying member of the racist, extremist group Oath Keepers).
7 ABC7 News, 4 San Jose police officers put on leave amid investigation into alleged racist Facebook
posts (June 28, 2020) https://abc7news.com/san-jose-police-department-report-news-sjpd-
facebook/6275266/ (as of Dec. 14, 2020).
8 https://post.ca.gov/Portals/0/post_docs/regulationnotices/2021/2021-38_TPRA.pdf, p. 2
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and factors considered, among others. This would provide greater transparency in the assessment
process, and greater detail for the psychological evaluator, whose evaluation commences after
the conditional offer of employment.9 The evaluator, who determines whether a candidate’s
biases might adversely affect their behavior as a peace officer could then refer back to the
constructs and investigative source(s) used in determining a finding for bias if there are questions
related to the background investigation.10 This process would improve public accountability,
ensure the clarity of the findings record for review and department educational purposes,
increase effectiveness of the background investigator process, and consequently lead to more
transparent and evidence-based public service processes.11
3. Recommendation to Amend Proposed Section 1955, subdivision (d)(3) Psychological
Screening Procedures and Evaluation Criteria Requirements
Section 1955, subdivison (d)(3) requires that “when evaluating a peace officer candidate for
explicit and implicit bias against race or ethnicity, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or
sexual orientation that might adversely affect the exercise of the powers of a peace officer,
psychological evaluators shall use the Bias Assessment Framework …. [to] assess biased
behaviors, biased attitudes and bias-relevant traits and attributes.”12 Additionally, the
requirement gives evaluators discretion13 as to which data sources to use for the assessments;14
however, the regulations do not require the evaluator to provide clear findings with respect to
each construct. Moreover, given the discretion provided to evaluators to determine which data
sources or facts may be relied upon in making their final determination, a review of the
currently-required documentation will provide little insight to how the evaluators are making
crucial decisions.
The Board recommends requiring the evaluator to report detailed findings of the evaluation
based upon each targeted construct of the candidate. Such findings would clearly explain the
evaluator’s assessment of biased behavior, biased attitudes, and biased traits, including
identification of sources, evidence used, and other factors relied upon, and an explanation of how
they contributed the evaluator’s analysis and decision. This would significantly improve the
transparency of this screening process, and would provide a basis to further develop the
screening tools over time.
9https://govt.westlaw.com/calregs/Document/I92ABA5B682E14626A39750AFF7D0BBCB?originationC
ontext=document&transitionType=StatuteNavigator&needToInjectTerms=False&viewType=FullText&c
ontextData=%28sc.Default%29&bhcp=1
10Ibid
11 Cordner, Gary, National Institute of Justice, Evidence-Based Policing In 45 Small Bytes, May 2020, p.
6
12 https://post.ca.gov/Portals/0/post_docs/regulationnotices/2021/2021-38_TPRA.pdf
13 The Board is not commenting on the fact that the evaluator has discretion here and believes that
providing the evaluator with discretion is reasonable.
14 https://post.ca.gov/Portals/0/post_docs/regulationnotices/2021/Bias_Assessment_Framework.pdf, see
footnote no. 2
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In closing, we appreciate the work of the Commission and its role in safeguarding the integrity of
the law enforcement profession. We believe that the recommendations above will strengthen the
profession through enhanced screening for explicit bias and the more specific findings required
by the investigator and evaluator.
Sincerely,
Steven Raphael, Professor of Public Policy
Goldman School of Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley
RIPA Board Co-Chair
David Swing, Chief of Police
City of Pleasanton
RIPA Board Co-Chair
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COMMISSION ON
PEACE OFFICER STANDARDS AND TRAINING
November 16, 2021
Professor Steven Raphael and Chief David Swing, Co-Chairs
State of California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory (RIPA) Board
POST c/o Department of Justice
1515 Clay Street, 20th Floor
P.O. Box 70550
GAVIN NEWSOM
Oakland, CA 94612-0550
GOVERNOR
Dear Professor Raphael and Chief Swing:
RoBBoNTA
ATTORNEY GENERAL
The California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) is
in receipt of your comment letter, dated October 22, 2021, in response to the
Public Notice of Proposed Regulatory Action for Commission Regulations 1953
and 1955 related to AB 846, with your three (3) recommendations. POST is very
appreciative of the insight, perspective, and recommendations of the RIPA Board.
As with any change in regulation or performance standard, the Commission must
apply careful and thoughtful consideration as to the appropriateness of the
regulation or standard in consultation with a diverse collection of subject matter
experts and contributors, as well as legal considerations, including case law and
statute.
The Board's recommendations illustrate the complexity of background
investigations.
With respect to the Social Media Access Recommendation, there is a vast array of
case law regarding the constitutional rights of individuals to take under
consideration, as well as statute. Regarding the Background Narrative Report
Recommendation, POST must ensure that the responsibilities of the Background
Investigator and Psychologist are clearly bifurcated, to ensure the Investigator is
not placed in a position to make medical assessments, which would be beyond
his/her professional scope. And, regarding the Psychological Screening
Procedures Recommendation, POST staff will need to consult with psychologists
in order to determine if such recommendations comport with medical assessment
protocols and reporting procedures within the profession.
AB 846 has a mandate for POST to update regulation and associated screening
materials by January 1, 2022, and POST would be unable to assemble further
work groups and incorporate the regulatory changes associated with the
recommendations within that timeline.
Accordingly, POST will not incorporate your recommendations into the cUITent
regulatory package.
860 Stillwater Road, Suite 100 . West Sacramento, CA 95605-1630 . 916 227-3909 • Fax 916 227-3895 • www.post.ca.gov
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Nevertheless, POST will further evaluate your recommendations in the future and
is committed to finding solutions that not only enhance peace officer screening
but also adhere to statute and case law, thus protecting the constitutional rights of
individuals. In fact, the POST Legislative Liaison is in ongoing discussion with
Department of Justice staff assigned to RIPA to regularly evaluate the Board's
input and to continually enhance the quality of peace officer performance and
service to California communities.
SCOTT LOGGINS
Assistant Executive Director
Standards and Development Division
cc: Aisha Martin-Walton, California Department of Justice
Allison Elgart, California Department of Justice
Nancy Benanati, California Department of Justice
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