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The RIPA Board was created as a part of California's Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015 (RIP A). This law requires nearly all California law enforcement agencies to collect, maintain, and analyze demographic data on all detentions and searches, thereby codifying the recommendation of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing which aimed to improve understanding and create evidence based policies through this data collection. The Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory (RIPA) Board recently released its second annual report on how stop data is collected and submitted to the Department of Justice (DOJ). The report provides recommendations for law enforcement agencies to enhance their policies, procedures, and trainings in regards to racial profiling and bias.

In summary, the report: reviews the information that law enforcement agencies must collect and report on each stop and how agencies and the DOJ are ensuring the integrity of this data; provides best practice recommendations for agencies in drafting policies and procedures, and trainings regarding racial and identity profiling and civilian complaints; analyzes the civilian complaint data submitted to the DOJ in 2017; explores how to address the potential for bias when officers respond to calls for service; analyzes use of force data submitted to the DOJ in 2017; and highlights methodologies that the Board may use to analyze the stop data once it is submitted to the DOJ by April 1, 2019.

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