RIPA police stop data - contraband and/or evidence found
About this dataset
Type of contraband or evidence found during a stop 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.
The file contains one row per type of contraband or evidence per person stopped by Police, if contraband or evidence were found. Police may have seized multiple types of contraband or evidence per person stopped, or none. 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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Data Sample
| Field | Sample Value |
|---|---|
| id | 264377 |
| pid | 1 |
| contraband | Drug paraphernalia |
| insertdatetime | 2026-01-28 06:00:01.860000 |
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| Field | Field_type | Description | Possible_values |
|---|---|---|---|
| uid | str | universally unique identifier | |
| id | int64 | unique identifer for stop | |
| pid | int64 | unique identifer for person on a stop | |
| contraband | str | type of contraband or evidence found | https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/ripa/stop-data-reg-final-text-110717.pdf? |
| insertdatetime | datetime |
- PublisherPolice
- Last Updated Jun 1, 2026
- Update Frequency Quarterly
- Date Issued Apr 16, 2019
- Available Formats .CSV
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