Berkeley PD - Stop Data (October 1, 2020 - Present)

data.cityofberkeley.info | Last Updated 18 Jan 2023

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.

Tags: enforcement, stop data, police, traffic, pedestrian, bicycle, vehicle, race, gender, detention, search

This dataset has the following 45 columns:

Column NameAPI Column NameData TypeSample Values
LEA Record IDlea_record_idtext
Person Numberperson_numbernumber
Date of Stopdate_of_stopcalendar_date
Time of Stoptime_of_stoptext
Duration of Stopduration_of_stopnumber
Is Stop Made in Response to Call for Serviceis_stop_made_in_responsetext
Information Based Stopinformation_based_stoptext
Type Of Stoptype_of_stoptext
Officer Type of Assignmentofficer_type_of_assignmenttext
Locationlocationtext
Citycitytext
Is Location a K12 Public Schoolis_location_a_k12_publictext
If K12 School Is Stop of a Studentif_k12_school_is_stop_oftext
School Nameschool_nametext
Education Code Sectioneducation_code_sectiontext
Education Code Subdivisioneducation_code_subdivisiontext
Race Perceived Prior To Stopraceperceivedpriortostoptext
Perceived Race or Ethnicityperceived_race_or_ethnicitytext
Perceived Genderperceived_gendertext
Perceived Gender Nonconformingperceived_gender_nonconformingtext
Is LGBTis_lgbttext
Perceived Ageperceived_agenumber
Person had Limited or No English Fluencyperson_had_limited_or_notext
Perceived or Known Disabilityperceived_or_known_disabilitytext
City of Residencecity_of_residencetext
Reason for Stopreason_for_stoptext
Reason for Stop Narrativereason_for_stop_narrativetext
Traffic Violation Typetraffic_violation_typetext
Traffic Violation Offense Codestraffic_violation_offensetext
Suspicion Offense Codesuspicion_offense_codetext
Suspicion SubTypesuspicion_subtypetext
Actions Takenactions_takentext
Basis for Searchbasis_for_searchtext
Basis for Search Narrativebasis_for_search_narrativetext
Basis for Property Seizurebasis_for_property_seizuretext
Type of Property Seizedtype_of_property_seizedtext
Contraband or Evidencecontraband_or_evidencetext
Other Contraband Descother_contraband_desctext
Warning Offense Codeswarning_offense_codestext
Citation Offense Codescitation_offense_codestext
Result of Stopresult_of_stoptext
In field cite and release Offense Codesin_field_cite_and_releasetext
Custodial arrest Offense Codescustodial_arrest_offensetext
LATlatnumber
LONGlongnumber