Community Police Review Commission Meeting in Riverside

Riverside’s Community Police Review Commission meets Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. to weigh a policy recommendation on how police stop data about race and identity is collected and reviewed. (raincrossgazette.com) The meeting is scheduled at City Hall’s Art Pick Council Chamber, 3900 Main Street, and the city calendar lists a live webcast through Riverside’s meeting portal. (riversideca.legistar.com) The same commission is also set to consider its draft 2025 annual report, according to the Raincross Gazette’s city hall preview for the week of April 20. (raincrossgazette.com) The data under review comes from California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Act, a 2015 law that requires law enforcement agencies to report detailed information on each stop to the state Department of Justice. (oag.ca.gov) State regulations spell out the stop-data categories officers must record, including perceived race or ethnicity, gender, age, the reason for the stop, actions taken during the encounter, and the result. (oag.ca.gov) Riverside’s commission has been discussing those numbers for months. At a May 28, 2025 meeting, it received and filed a report covering 2022 and 2023 stops and said further discussion would come later. (raincrossgazette.com) That report said Riverside police made 16,465 traffic stops in 2022 and 14,879 in 2023. It also said Black residents accounted for 14% of stops in 2022 and 13% in 2023, while making up 6% of Riverside’s population in the 2020 Census figures cited in the report. (raincrossgazette.com) The statewide backdrop has not gone away. California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board said in its 2025 annual report that stop data from 539 agencies and more than 4.7 million stops showed racial and identity profiling “persists.” (oag.ca.gov) The 2026 state report, released January 30, analyzed 5.1 million vehicle and pedestrian stops conducted in 2024 by 533 agencies and again said profiling remains a concern. Members of the public can also review stop data through the state’s OpenJustice portal. (oag.ca.gov, openjustice.doj.ca.gov) Riverside created the Community Police Review Commission to review citizen complaint investigations, recommend policy changes, conduct outreach, and, in some cases, independently investigate complaints against Riverside Police Department officers. (riversideca.gov) Wednesday’s meeting puts that policy role in front of the public again, this time on the question of what stop data the city collects, how it is analyzed, and what changes commissioners may ask police to make next. (raincrossgazette.com, riversideca.gov)