Black and Latino residents accounted for a disproportionate number of traffic stops in Santa Rosa in 2021. Local law enforcement agencies submitted six months of 2021 data for the study, which was conducted by the California Attorney General’s Office’s Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board. Black people accounted for about 2.2-percent of Santa Rosa’s population, but made up about seven-point-one-percent of traffic stops in the second half of 2021. Latinos made up more than 29-percent of Santa Rosa’s population but accounted for more than 36.6-percent of traffic stops. White residents, by comparison, made up more than 54.2-percent of the population, but accounted for about 51.6-percent of traffic stops.
