Since the inception of the California Department of Justice Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory (RIPA) Board in 2016, PORAC has made several attempts to work with the Board to correct the flawed methodology it has used to achieve its supposed goal of improving the practice of traffic enforcement. Unfortunately, these efforts at collaboration have gone unreciprocated. The Board’s willful disregard of PORAC’s recommendations and offers to educate the Board’s laypeople with no law enforcement experience as to the policies, rules, regulations and training that officers must adhere to in conducting traffic stops remains a significant impediment to their understanding and efficacy regarding racial profiling.
PORAC continues to advocate on several fronts for a more informed, transparent RIPA Board, including releasing a series of analyses by nation-leading racial profiling expert Dr. Brian Withrow detailing inconsistencies in their methodology and highlighting opportunities to improve their future assessments of racial profiling.
2022 Report Analysis and One-Pager