DON THOMPSON
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Black drivers in California were stopped by police at 2.5 times the per capita rate of whites and searched three times as often, according to the latest report Thursday from a first-in-the-nation attempt to track racial profiling by police.
Under a 2015 law, when California police make a stop of any kind they are required to, among other things, log their perception of the race, gender and sexual orientation of anyone they stop. The report by the state Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board includes information from the eight largest law enforcement agencies on 1.8 million police stops — the vast majority traffic stops — and searches.
Black people accounted for 15% of all stops but make up about 6% of the population. Hispanic
