The investigation uncovered biased posts by 13 active officers. The posts included derogatory statements or memes about Black, Asian, Latino, Muslim, and LGBTQ individuals, as well as of women and immigrants.
, the state audit hits the agencies it studied for “key deficiencies” in their efforts to reduce bias in policing. The problems begin with lax recruiting that often fails to screen new hires for experience or competence in interacting with diverse constituencies, and often neglects to ask references whether prospective hires have demonstrated discriminatory behavior.
But the report also highlights several egregious cases in which allegations of bias were dismissed. In one, a pair of Stockton officers approached a Black man sitting in his car in a parking lot, searched the vehicle without cause, and ultimately arrested the man for standing up for his rights. In another case, an officer with an unnamed department profiled and stopped a Latino man as a potential burglary suspect. The officer demanded that this man show his “papers” — in other words, document his immigration status. When the man objected to this treatment, the officer gaslighted him, saying he was making things up: “This is what you call a novela,” the cop said. “It’s a Telemundo special.” There was no discipline meted out to the officer in this case, either.
It finds that none of the law enforcement agencies surveyed have “addressed bias in their organizations in a comprehensive manner.” It calls out each of the police agencies for not having “appropriately addressed indications of bias when they occurred.” And it hits several agencies for having “poorly tracked their bias investigations, obscuring the extent of the problem and reducing public transparency.
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