(A) No employee shall engage in bias based profiling while providing policing services.
(B) Bias based profiling shall not constitute probable cause or a reasonable and articulable suspicion that an offense has been or is being committed so as to justify the detention of an individual, the investigatory stop of a motor vehicle, custody or arrest, search or frisk, field contact, or seizure and forfeiture of property.
(C) Employees shall not use any terms, language or remarks that are derogatory, tend to belittle, show contempt for or defame any individual demographic, except when necessary to include such terms, language or remarks used by another for the preparation of official report or testimony.
(D) Employees shall not take any law enforcement action based on information from members of the public or other employees they know, or reasonably should know, under all circumstances present is the product of, or motivated by bias based profiling unless the circumstances indicate that harm is imminent or a crime has been committed.
(E) Discriminatory pretextual stops are prohibited under state and federal law and are prohibited by this subchapter.
(Ord. 2020-19, passed 12-15-2020) Penalty, see § 10.99