The famously liberal East Bay city of Berkeley has been engaged in a lengthy dispute about the release of a Center for Policing Equity analysis of police stop data that indicated significant racial profiling.
The decision to release the report went all the way to the City Council which overrode the Chief of Police to make the report public.
Here it is. The report is preceded by a memo from the Berkeley Police Chief explaining his thoughts and concerns about the draft report.
It is probably fair to say that most, if not all, municipal police departments would yield similar or worse results when stop data is analyzed. It is to Berkeley’s credit that they proceeded with the report. Now the question is what will be done as a result.
Report from MuckRack tracks and analyzes media hits for nonprofit organizations using a 50-org sample. This year’s report focuses on the question: “how can we measure and grow the real-world impact of a story once its out there?”
The Media Action Grassroots Network (www.mag-net.org) met in Washington DC to grapple with surveillance and the police state and how to center the issue with the most deeply impacted communities and use racial justice strategies to fight surveillance and tracking.
The decision to release the report went all the way to the City Council which overrode the Chief of Police to make the report public.
