Study raises questions about Oakland police stops

Oakland police are also implementing a procedural justice training program aimed at increasing positive, respectful interactions with the community, among other strategies meant to promote “fair and equitable policing,” he said.

John Burris, one of the civil rights attorneys who worked on the Riders case and has long called on the department to release the report, said that he isn’t surprised by the findings.

“It’s disappointing, but we’ve always suspected this to be true,” he said.

“I’m hopeful the data will get analyzed in such a way that we can find out whether there’s implicit bias in law enforcement,” Burris said.

According to the report, Hispanics were stopped and searched by Oakland police at a rate of 17 percent, whites at 12 percent, Asians at 6 percent and other ethnicities at a rate of 3 percent.

Police said traffic violations were the basis for 61 percent of the stops, followed by probable cause at 23 percent and reasonable suspicion at 10 percent.

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