Promoting awareness of motorcycle profiling and encouraging collaboration and communication with the motorcycle community and law enforcement officials to prevent instances of profiling.

IV 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. RES. 255 Promoting awareness of motorcycle profiling and encouraging collaboration and communication with the motorcycle community and law enforcement officials to prevent instances of profiling. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MARCH 26, 2019 Mr. WALBERG (for himself, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. POCAN, and Mr. PETERSON) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary RESOLUTION Promoting awareness of motorcycle profiling and encouraging collaboration and communication with the motorcycle community and law enforcement officials to prevent in- stances of profiling. Whereas motorcycle ridership has continued to increase over time with registrations growing from 3,826,373 in 1997 to 8,600,936 in 2015; Whereas, as of August 2016, the ongoing National Motor- cycle Profiling Survey 2016, conducted by the Motorcycle Profiling Project, found that approximately 1⁄2 of the mo- torcyclists surveyed felt that they had been profiled by law enforcement at least once; VerDate Sep 11 2014 21:40 Mar 26, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HR255.IH HR255 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 2 •HRES 255 IH Whereas motorcycle profiling means the illegal use of the fact that a person rides a motorcycle or wears motorcycle re- lated apparel as a factor in deciding to stop and question, take enforcement action, arrest, or search a person or ve- hicle with or without legal basis under the Constitution of the United States; Whereas complaints surrounding motorcycle profiling have been cited in all 50 States; Whereas nationwide protests to raise awareness and combat motorcycle profiling have been held in multiple States; Whereas in 2011, Washington signed into law legislation stating that the criminal justice training commission shall ensure that issues related to motorcycle profiling are addressed in basic law enforcement training and of- fered to in-service law enforcement officers in conjunction with existing training regarding profiling; Whereas reported incidents of motorcycle profiling have dropped approximately 90 percent in the State of Wash- ington since the 2011 legislation was signed into law; and Whereas in the spring of 2016, Maryland became the second State to pass a law addressing the issue of motorcycle profiling: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 1 (1) promotes increased public awareness on the 2 issue of motorcycle profiling; 3 (2) encourages collaboration and communica- 4 tion with the motorcycle community and law enforce- 5 ment to engage in efforts to end motorcycle 6 profiling; and 7 VerDate Sep 11 2014 21:40 Mar 26, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\HR255.IH HR255 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 3 •HRES 255 IH (3) urges State law enforcement officials to in- 1 clude statements condemning motorcycle profiling in 2 written policies and training materials. 3 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 21:40 Mar 26, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\HR255.IH HR255 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS