Figure A1: Race/ethnicity demographics of California in 2022 vs. race/ethnicity demographics of people stopped by California law enforcement in 2023

Population demographics were calculated using the 2022 American Community Survey 5-Year data. Population demographics were calculated using the 2022 American Community Survey 5-Year data. Race, ethnicity, and ancestry are self-reported. Because the ACS does not have a comparable Middle Eastern/South Asian category, the research team created one, using the values of the ancestry variables, in conjunction with the values of the race variables. Assignment into the Hispanic category is based on the Hispanic variable in the ACS. People of any or multiple race categories with values equivalent to Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or other Hispanic for the Hispanic variable in the ACS are categorized as Hispanic in this report. ACS data is from IPUMS USA, University of Minnesota, www.ipums.org.
Chart: California Policy LabSource: California Open Justice RIPA Stop Data (2023) and American Community Survey 5-Year data (2022).Get the data Created with Datawrapper