RIPA police stop data - basis for searches conducted

Police Updated Jun 1, 2026 Quarterly

About this dataset

The basis for any search conducted as part of 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 for each reason a search was conducted per person stopped by police, if a search occurred. Police may not have conducted any searches during a stop, or police may have had more than one reason to search a stopped person and/or the person’s property. 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
Basis for searches conducted	Download Copy URL	CSV	13.27 MB
Basis for searches conducted - Historic	Download Copy URL	CSV	22.89 MB

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Field	Sample Value
id	292416
pid	2
basisforsearch	Incident to arrest
basisforsearchbrief	ARREST AND RELEASED WITH CITE FOR NARC AND PARAPHERNALIA
insertdatetime	2026-05-28 06:00:01.710000

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Data Dictionary

Data dictionary - field definitions for this dataset
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
basisforsearch	str	basis for search, if officer searched person or property	https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ripa-final-text-of-proposed-regulations.pdf
basisforsearchexplanation	str	brief narrative explaining the reason for the search
insertdatetime	datetime

PublisherPolice
Last Updated Jun 1, 2026
Update Frequency Quarterly
Date Issued Apr 16, 2019
Available Formats .CSV
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