Oct 08 2015
California Passes Crucial Racial Profiling Data Collection Law
GUEST: Peter Bibring, Director of Police Practices for the ACLU of Southern California.
Police in California are up in arms over a new bill that Gov. Jerry Brown just signed into law, intended to track and identify racial profiling. AB 953, which was introduced by San Diego Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, will require police departments to collect the race and ethnicity of every single person stopped by police. That includes perceived race and ethnicity. They will also have to keep track of the reason for the encounter and whether any arrests were made. Departments will also have to make that data public. Advocates of police accountability celebrated the law as a first step toward tackling racial profiling as currently police are not required to keep such data. But the Fraternal Order of Police called it, “a terrible piece of legislation.”
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