Police Relationship Act

COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY – POLICE RELATIONSHIP ACT OF 2015, R.I. Gen. Laws § 31-21.2

The “Racial Profiling Prevention Act of 2004” found municipal and state law enforcement officers play a vital role in protecting the public from crime. The vast majority of police officers discharge their duties professionally and without bias. The use by police officers of race, ethnicity, or national origin solely in deciding which persons should be subject to traffic stops, searches and seizures is improper. Racial profiling damages law enforcement and the criminal justice system as a whole by undermining public confidence and trust in the police, the courts, and criminal law, and thereby undermining law enforcement efforts and ability to solve and reduce crime.

To learn more about the Comprehensive Community – Police Relationship Act of 2015 and your rights under the law, please refer to Rhode Island General Law 31-21.2. For your convenience we have listed the link below:

http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE31/31-21.2/INDEX.htm

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