Under Color of Authority: An Examination of Police Conduct and Accountability in Long Beach As racial justice protests erupted across the nation in the wake of George Floyd’s death—including a massive gathering in Downtown Long Beach—the Post undertook a multifaceted investigation into the conduct of the city’s police force toward those it is sworn to protect. The aim of the effort: to move beyond the anecdotal and document systemic issues that could provide a potential roadmap for reform. In that pursuit, Long Beach Post reporter Jeremiah Dobruck obtained tens of thousands of records from the state’s justice department in his data-driven examination of racial profiling and excessive force in Long Beach. One extensive trove of documents, obtained through the California Public Records Act, provided detailed demographic information on 40,523 people who were stopped or detained by Long Beach police in 2019. Those records showed that officers pulled over Black and Latino drivers—often for minor infractions—at disproportionately high rates and subjected them to more intensive scrutiny than individuals of other races. Dobruck found, for example, that officers ordered or physically removed Black drivers from their vehicles more than twice as often as white drivers. The Post’s stories represented the first time any organization, including the Long Beach Police Department, had analyzed these records, which are maintained by the state under a new law to determine the possible extent of racial of profiling by California law enforcement agencies. To ensure the accuracy of its findings, the Post reached out to data scientists and mathematicians—and then made the information available to readers for their own analysis. Post operations chief Dennis Dean created a searchable database from more than 1.6 million pieces of raw information, including the race, gender, sexual identification, age and disability status of individuals who were stopped or detained. Reporter Alena Maschke, meanwhile, created another public-facing database in her examination of the political influence of the police department’s powerful union, long accused by community activists of blocking potential reforms. Drawing information from local and state sources, the database included five years of union contributions to candidates, measures and political action committees. Maschke’s accompanying story explored which candidates and elected officials have benefited most from the union’s largess. , OCR Text: Under Color of Authority: An Examination of Police Conduct and Accountability in Long Beach As racial justice protests erupted across the nation in the wake of George Floyd’s death—including a massive gathering in Downtown Long Beach—the Post undertook a multifaceted investigation into the conduct of the city’s police force toward those it is sworn to protect. The aim of the effort: to move beyond the anecdotal and document systemic issues that could provide a potential roadmap for reform. In that pursuit, Long Beach Post reporter Jeremiah Dobruck obtained tens of thousands of records from the state’s justice department in his data-driven examination of racial profiling and excessive force in Long Beach. One extensive trove of documents, obtained through the California Public Records Act, provided detailed demographic information on 40,523 people who were stopped or detained by Long Beach police in 2019. Those records showed that officers pulled over Black and Latino drivers—often for minor infractions—at disproportionately high rates and subjected them to more intensive scrutiny than individuals of other races. Dobruck found, for example, that officers ordered or physically removed Black drivers from their vehicles more than twice as often as white drivers. The Post’s stories represented the first time any organization, including the Long Beach Police Department, had analyzed these records, which are maintained by the state under a new law to determine the possible extent of racial of profiling by California law enforcement agencies. To ensure the accuracy of its findings, the Post reached out to data scientists and mathematicians—and then made the information available to readers for their own analysis. Post operations chief Dennis Dean created a searchable database from more than 1.6 million pieces of raw information, including the race, gender, sexual identification, age and disability status of individuals who were stopped or detained. Reporter Alena Maschke, meanwhile, created another public-facing database in her examination of the political influence of the police department’s powerful union, long accused by community activists of blocking potential reforms. Drawing information from local and state sources, the database included five years of union contributions to candidates, measures and political action committees. Maschke’s accompanying story explored which candidates and elected officials have benefited most from the union’s largess. , Z ArchiveInABox,Car Collections,American Muscle,Chevy,1638705083601db72947328_0.pdf,1638705083601db72947328_0.pdf Page 1, 1638705083601db72947328_0.pdf Page 1