RIPA police stop data - actions taken

Police Updated Jan 6, 2024 Quarterly

About this dataset

Actions an officer took toward a person stopped by the San Diego Police Department.

Data were collected according to requirements set forth in Government Code section 12525.5 that was enacted as a result of the Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015 (AB 953), also known as RIPA. Beginning in 2024, actions taken were split into force and non-force actions, which can be found under related datasets.

The file contains one row per action per person stopped by Police. An officer may have taken more than one action toward a person. The person stopped is uniquely identified in the pid field, and the stop is uniquely identified in the stop_id field. These two fields can be used to join this dataset to the other RIPA datasets available.

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File name	Download actions	File Format	File size
Actions taken	Download Copy URL	CSV	6.46 MB
Actions taken - Historic	Download Copy URL	CSV	40.99 MB

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Field	Sample Value
id	4866
pid	1
action	Person removed from vehicle by order
personsearchconsent	False
propertysearchconsent	True
insertdatetime	2024-06-25 11:14:59.810000

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Data Dictionary

Data dictionary - field definitions for this dataset
Field	Field_type	Description	Possible_values
uid	str	unique identifer for stop
id	int64	unique identifer for stop
pid	int64	unique identifer for person on a stop
action	str	officer's actions toward the person stopped	https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ripa-final-text-of-proposed-regulations.pdf
consented	str	response by person stopped if officer asked for consent to search	Yes or blank
insertdatetime	datetime

PublisherPolice
Last Updated Jan 6, 2024
Update Frequency Quarterly
Date Issued Apr 16, 2019
Available Formats .CSV
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Public safety RIPA Police vehicle stops Police stops

https://oag.ca.gov/ab953

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