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Public Contact Demographic Data Summary

Report to Governor Gray Davis
July 2000

Maria Contreras-Sweet, Secretary
Business, Transportation
and Housing Agency

D.O. Helmick, Commissioner
California Highway Patrol

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Executive Summary

Report to the Governor

  • Introduction
  • Report Objective
  • Overview of the California Highway Patrol
  •      Figure 1: CHP Five-Year Enforcement Trends
  •      Figure 2: Californias Mileage Death Rate (Deaths per Million Miles Traveled)
  • The Importance of Traffic Law Enforcement Drug Interdiction
  • CHP Efforts to Implement the Data Collection Project
  • Data Collection Methodology
  • Findings
  •      Table 1: CHP Contacts by Ethnicity
  •      Table 2: CHP Contacts by Ethnic Percentage
  •          Figure 3: CHP Contacts by Ethnicity Percentage
  •          Figure 4: CHP Demographic Data by Gender Percentage
  •      Table 3: CHP Demographic Data by Age Groupings
  • Conclusions

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Annex A: Senate Bill 78, Commissioner of the Highway Patrol: Annual Report

Annex B: Governor Davis' Direction to Collect Demographic Data

Annex C: Organization of the California Highway Patrol

Annex D: California Highway Patrol Major Drug Enforcement Programs

Annex E: Management Memorandum to CHP Commanders

Annex F: Letter to All Local Law Enforcement Agencies Inviting Them to Participate in the Collection of Statistical Data

Annex G: Letter Sent to 19 Law Enforcement Agencies Who Indicated They Would Submit Data to the Department for Inclusion in the Report

Annex H: Summary demographic data from the following law enforcement agencies:

  1. Alameda Police Department
  2. Amador County Sheriff's Office
  3. Anderson Police Department
  4. Angels Camp Police Department
  5. Corning Police Department
  6. Livermore Police Department
  7. Newark Police Department
  8. Palo Alto Police Department
  9. Piedmont Police Department
  10. Pleasanton Police Department
  11. Redding Police Department
  12. San Leandro Police Department
  13. San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department
  14. University of California at Berkeley Police Department
  15. University of California at San Francisco Police Department
  16. Woodland Police Department