The disparities persist despite broader efforts to curb police abuses energized by the Black Lives Matter movement, and despite an array of moves statewide and nationally to decrease the total number of stops. They were, however, more likely to have force used against them. In Sacramento, Black people were 3.7 times more likely to be stopped.ĭespite being stopped and searched far more often than white people, Black people were less likely to be found carrying contraband, the data shows. In Oakland, Black people were 5.3 times more likely to be stopped. In San Francisco and Los Angeles, The Chronicle found, Black people were nearly 6 times more likely to be stopped by police than white residents in 2020, when factoring in the relative city populations of the racial groups. The data, provided by the state attorney general, reveals that Black people are far more likely to be stopped by police than white people, and that the disparity widened in 11 of the state’s 15 biggest law enforcement agencies from 2019 to 2020.
SACRAMENTO - For close to a decade, California has pushed local police agencies to combat a long-standing pattern of racial profiling with new training and policies designed to confront the unconscious bias of officers.īut these efforts have done little to root out vast racial disparities in traffic and pedestrian stops, according to a Chronicle analysis drawing from data the agencies are now required to collect. By Dustin Gardiner and Susie Neilson | J4:00 a.m.
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