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Demographic data describing the people Berkeley police stop is now on a city online portal, police announced Friday. 

The portal can be found at https://data.cityofberkeley.info/. 

Police began collecting demographic data on the people stopped on Jan. 26 and the portal contains data from then until Aug. 31, according to police. 

The data includes information for stops police made on vehicles, pedestrians and bicyclists, police said. 

Berkeley police released some demographic stop data earlier this year after a public records request was made, but those data did not include stops of pedestrians, which can include up to five people. 

Police spokesperson Jennifer Coats said omitting the pedestrian data was a mistake. 

Data on each incident includes the demographics, the incident number, incident type, date, time, and location, according to police. 

Police will record a person's race as Asian, black, Hispanic, white or other. Police are also asking how old a person is and their gender, according to police. 

Incidents are broken into four categories: traffic, suspicious vehicles, pedestrian and bicycle. 

Police said making the data available is an effort to be more transparent and accountable to residents, according to police. 

Police said the data can contribute to the discussion on policing in the U.S., make officers aware of implicit bias and improve residents' trust of officers.