California police more than twice as likely to use force against Black people – report

Annual report from state board found Latinx and Black residents disproportionately affected by ongoing ‘pretextual stops’

California police were more than twice as likely to use force against Black residents than white residents during traffic and pedestrian stops in 2021, according to a new report on racial profiling.

The annual report from a state board also found that law enforcement searched Black people at 2.2 times the rate of white people, and that Black youth ages 15 to 17 were searched at nearly six times the rate of white teenagers. Latinx residents were stopped and subjected to force at 1.4 times the rate of white people, and Latinx youth were searched nearly four times the rate of white youth.