This data was extracted from the Department’s Public Safety Server and covers data beginning January 26, 2015. On January 26, 2015 the department began collecting data pursuant to General Order B-4 (issued December 31, 2014). Under that Order, officers were required to provide certain data after making any detention (vehicle, bicycle, pedestrian, suspicious auto). This dataset provides information about detentions, including the race, sex, age range, of the person detained; the reason for the stop; the type of enforcement taken (if any), and whether or not a search was conducted. Also provided are the date, time, location of the detention, as well as the incident number and call for service type.

Berkeley PD transitioned to RIPA stop data collection effective October 1, 2020. Data collected from these stops conforms to requirements set forth in Government Code section 12525.5 that was enacted as a result of AB 953, the Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA) of 2015 (https://oag.ca.gov/ab953). Berkeley PD will begin reporting RIPA data to the CA DOJ effective January 1, 2021.

For more information about any of the column definitions, please download the document: One Page Narrative for Stop Data (October 1, 2020).pdf.