I’m a white dude. This happens to me once every few years. It’s annoying, but I’m not typically a target. The fact that it happens all the time to people in SF who live in certain neighborhoods or have a certain skin color is wrong and probably a violation and the 4th Amendment.
What about police breaking up sideshows as opposed to other large unsanctioned gatherings when sideshows primarily occur in low-income neighborhoods and neighborhoods mainly populated by POC?
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I don't know about sideshows. But I do know that the State's 2020 RIPA Board Report showed that, in SF, Black people were stopped at rates over 5X their representation in the city’s overall population. Which is a greater disparity than LA or San Diego.https://oag.ca.gov/ab953/board
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They were search almost 3X as frequently. And narcotics were seized in approximately 1.3% of all traffic stops, and weapons or ammunition seized in 0.6% of all traffic stops.
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