Safe Oakland Streets
Traffic Safety Initiative:
OPD Stop Analysis, 2019-2021
A Comprehensive, Interdepartmental Set of Strategies
to Save Lives and Advance Traffic Safety and Equity
Safe Oakland Streets Initiative: Goals
● Prevent severe and fatal crashes and related disparities impacting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, persons with disabilities, seniors, and low-income populations; ● Eliminate severe and fatal injury inequities including racial disparities impacting BIPOC communities that exist today in Oakland; and ● Inform effective and equitable safety strategies that prevent injury and injury inequities, and do not have adverse equity impacts on BIPOC communities, seniors, and low-income populations
3 KEY
Priority
Neighborhood Designation
High
Medium-High
Medium
Low-Medium
Low
No Data
High Injury Network
Source: High Injury Network: 2012-2016 Data from SWITRS (Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System) prepared by Fehr & Peers.
Severe and Fatal Crashes are Highly,
and Disproportionately, Concentrated
6% of Oakland’s Streets account
for 60% of severe and fatal crashes
These are the City’s High Injury
Network (HIN)
95% of the HIN is in Medium
to High Priority Equity
Neighborhoods
4 Most Dangerous Driving Behaviors
That Account for 70% of Severe
and Fatal Crashes
Crashes Causes
(Primary Collision Factors)
Percent of Crashes Resulting in
People Being Killed or Severely
Injured (70%)
Failure to yield 18%
Unsafe speed 17%
Unsafe Turning (especially left
turns) 14%
Impaired Driving 13%
Disobeying Traffic Signals and
Signs
8%
SWITRS 2019
5 Oakland Police Dept. Initiatives
SOS Enforcement Strategies
• 6.2 DOT and OPD to collaborate on data sharing to guide traffic enforcement to be more operationally focused,
and data driven.
• 6.3 OPD to pilot high visibility enforcement focused on dangerous driving behaviors within the high injury
corridors, as feasible.
• 6.4 OPD to develop guidance for reducing the racial
disparity between non-dispatch traffic stops and
crashes.
• 6.5 OPD to add focused traffic violations as a special section within the annual OPD Stop Data report.
6 Traffic Stops Have Notably Decreased
Non-Dispatch Non-Intel Led Stops, 2017-2021, OPD
20,071
12,120
7,798 5,987 2,870
0 5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Non-Dispatch Non -Intelligence Led Traffic Stops
7 Traffic Stops Are More Focused on HIN
and Most Dangerous Moving Violations
• Traffic Stops on the HIN*
- 2019: 61%
- 2021: 73%
• Traffic Stops for Most Dangerous Behaviors
- 2019: 40%
- 2021: 64%
*within 500 ft of HIN
Non-Dispatch, Non-Intelligence-Led Stops, 2019, 2021, OPD 8 Traffic Stops Are More Focused on
Moving Violations in 2021
2019 2020 2021
Moving Violation 80% (7,280) 88%(5,279) 93%(2,661)
Equipment Violation 13% (1,212) 8%(456) 4%(113)
Non-Moving Violation,
Including Registration 7% (627) 4%(251) 3%(96)
Null 0%(1) 0%(1) 0%(0)
Grand Total 100%(9,120) 100%(5,987) 100%(2,870)
Non-Dispatch, Non-Intelligence-Led Stops, 2019-2021, OPD 9 And The Most Dangerous Behaviors
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Most Severe
Crash Causes (%)
2021 Traffic Stops by
Violation Type (%)
2019 Traffic Stops by
Violation Type (%)
Non-Dispatch, Non-Intelligence-Led Stops, 2019, 2021, OPD 40%
64%
10 Traffic Stop Locations 2021
Occurred in
Priority Equity
Neighborhoods
**
Occurred Outside
Priority Equity
Neighborhood
Occurred on
High Injury*
Network
[52%]
1777
[19%]
646
Occurred
outside of
High Injury
Network
[15%]
523
[14%]
461
Non-Dispatch Traffic Stops, 2021, OPD
*within 500 ft of HIN
**High and Highest Priority Equity Neighborhoods
in Geographic Equity Tool
• Over half of traffic
stops are on both
the High Injury
Network and in a
High Priority Equity
Neighborhood
• 68% of the HIN is in
High Priority
Neighborhoods
• 71% of traffic stops
were on the HIN
11 OPD Traffic Enforcement is
increasingly reliant on grant funds
2020 2021
Regular Shift 60%(3,618) 38%(1,094)
Overtime Assignment 5%(270) 6%(292)
OTS Grant Overtime 35%(2099) 52%(1484)
Total 100%(5,987) 100%(2,870)
Non-Dispatch, Non-Intelligence-Led Stops, 2021, 2022, OPD 12 Racial Disparities in Traffic Stops
• OPD has reduced racial disparities in stops since 2016 • Still, more stops are conducted on Black and Latiné Drivers than crashes involving Black and Latiné drivers (our best proxy for who is driving on local streets) – comprising 78% of stops in 2021 43%
35%
9% 8% 5%
36%
26% 22%
10% 6%
BLACK LATINÉ WHITE ASIAN OTHER
Traffic Stops Drivers Involved in a Crash
Non-Dispatch, Non-Intelligence-Led Stops, 2021 OPD
SWITRS 2020
13 Monitoring Moving Violations by Race
0 200
400
600
800
1000
Qtr1 Qtr2 Qtr3 Qtr4 Qtr1 Qtr2 Qtr3 Qtr4 Qtr1 Qtr2 Qtr3 Qtr4 2019 2020 2021
Afr American Hispanic White Asian Other
Non-Dispatch, Non-Intelligence-Led Stops, 2021 OPD
2019 2020 2021
Black/African American 80% 88% 93%
Hispanic 81% 92% 93%
White 85% 91% 94%
Asian 83% 93% 96%
Other 86% 88% 94%
• Number of stops are decreasing
• Higher proportion of moving
violations
• Variation across racial groups is
decreasing