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Police commission hears department defense of arrest race reporting, plans internal ethnicity reporting
Summary
San Francisco Police Commission heard a department presentation saying it complied with DOJ/UCR race categories and will begin internal collection of 19 ethnicities; commissioners pressed for timelines, training and a unified 'single‑entry booking' system to improve DOJ reporting.
Director Giffen told the Police Commission on Sept. 12 that the San Francisco Police Department follows the federal and state Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) standards when sending arrest race data to the California Department of Justice and the FBI, and that Hispanic/Latino is treated as an ethnicity rather than a race under those standards. He said the department will begin entering a separate ethnicity field so the city can report internally on up to 19 ethnicities while continuing to meet the DOJ's five‑race UCR requirement.
The presentation explained that agencies cannot unilaterally change UCR race categories. Director Giffen described the city’s dependency on a vendor update and on completing a single‑entry booking project that would align the police and…
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