Black drivers in California were stopped by police at 2.5 times the per capita rate of whites and searched 3 times as often, according to the latest report from a first-in-the-nation attempt to track racial profiling by police.
The city hired its first black police chief, Bill Scott, in 2017, who promised to reform a department that a 2016 U.S. Department of Justice report found disproportionately arrested, searched and used deadly force against black suspects. He took over after nine officers were fired during two separate scandals involving officers exchanging racist and homophobic text messages.
CHP is the only statewide agency, while the other agencies represent more urban areas. Dropping CHP’s data from the analysis showed that black people represented an even larger proportion of stopped individuals than their share of the residential population data, while those perceived to be Asian, Hispanic and white were less likely to stopped based on their population rate.
The agencies had to start collecting the data from the second half of 2018 and report it to the state Department of Justice by April 2019 so it could be included in the latest report to lawmakers. The majority of all agencies statewide will also eventually be required to collect and report the data. The board’s co-chairman, Kings County Sheriff Dave Robinson, said in a statement that the report “is just the beginning of information that will allow even greater transparency for law enforcement and our communities – allowing us to grow together working on local and statewide areas of concern.”
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