Instead, he ordered only the Highway Patrol to record the race and ethnicity of the motorists it stopped. He urged but did not require local police agencies to do the same. Sadly, voluntary data collection has not worked. Only 70 of 385 California police agencies took advantage of the grants offered by the Davis administration to pay for data collection. Citizens are entitled to equal treatment under the law.
Most police departments say they provide equal treatment.
To prove it, they should support the mandatory data collection provisions in the Firebaugh bill.