Below 100

Question 1

Below 100

Answer 1

•	Below 100 is an initiative to reduce the number of Line of Duty deaths to fewer than 100 per year.  This initiative began in 2010 from a conversation about too many officers dying.  This has not happened since 1944.
•	1974 – a record number of 278 officer died in the line of duty.
•	Below100.org
•	5 Tenants: 
1. Wear you belt 
2. Wear your vest 
3. Watch your speed
4. What’s important now 
5. Complacency kills!

• Innovations in training, emergency medicine, vehicles, and the ballistic vest, contributes to bringing the numbers down. We average 150 officers killed in the line of duty per year for the last 10 years.
• As a Captain, I will ensure these tenants are practiced and embraced by all. Discussions with personnel and meetings, training days etc. Ensure Commanders are doing ride alongs. Its important everyone understands we are our brothers keeper. I will promote a culture of safety and ensure my commanders do the same. Solicit ideas for the DOSB and wellness days. Attend areas events.
• As a sergeant, I promoted the driving rodeo with my training officer. Not done until us. We worked with Ca State parks and put together a course in 2011. All division followed.

Question 2

California Policy Lab RIPA Talking Points

Answer 2

Topline message:

• The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is committed to providing fair and impartial policing, free from discrimination or bias. Racial and identity profiling, or any other type of discrimination, is prohibited by policy and state law, and is not tolerated by the CHP.
• As part of the Assembly Bill 953, Racial and Identify Profiling Act of 2015, the CHP provides stop data annually to the California Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Racial and Identify Profiling Advisory Board for analysis.
• Pursuant to California Government Code Section 12525.5, the Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board, which includes the CHP commissioner, reviews and analyzes stop data reported collectively by California law enforcement agencies, with support from DOJ. This information is provided to the public as part of an annual report, and includes recommendations for law enforcement, policy makers, the community, and California’s Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.
• As recommended by the Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board, the CHP contacted a non-partisan research institute, comprised of researchers from the University of California system, to conduct a separate analysis focused on CHP enforcement and non-enforcement demographic stop data. The California Policy Lab (CPL) was selected to conduct this external analysis for the CHP to ensure transparency and reinforce the Department’s commitment to public trust.
• From the California Policy Lab Web site:

“The California Policy Lab is a non-partisan research institute based at the University of California. Our mission is to improve the lives of Californians by generating evidence that transforms public policy. We do this by forming lasting partnerships between government and California’s flagship public universities to harness the power of research and administrative data. We focus our work in six policy areas: education, criminal justice reform, poverty and the social safety net, labor and employment, health, and homelessness and high needs populations.”

• The DOJ’s Racial Identity Profiling Advisory report primarily compared law enforcement stop data against California’s residential population data. However, as noted by the California Policy Lab, “…the residential population may not actually reflect the population patrolled by the CHP…”
• As part of their report, the California Policy Lab compared the CHP’s enforcement stops and non-enforcement public contacts which revealed more consistency and fewer racial disparities, relative to comparisons involving population data. Enforcement stops include verbal warnings, written warnings, citations, and arrests. Non-enforcement public contacts include providing aid to disabled motorists, contacting persons involved in traffic crashes, and other non-discretionary contacts in which the CHP provides service to the public.
• In the interest of transparency and public trust, a link to the complete report prepared by the California Policy Lab is available on the CHP’s public Web site, and can be found at www.chp.ca.gov/Pages/RIPA.aspx.
• The CHP plans to carefully review the findings provided by the California Policy Lab and the Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board in an ongoing effort to address disparities and ensure the Department treats all those we contact in a fair and equitable manner. In the future, these findings and associated lessons learned may be incorporated into departmental training.