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Data Availability, Data Integrity and Other Fictions

    In the within, I wrote about the mayhem or “rodgering” caused by “Consensual Encounters Resulting in a Search” when searches were not conducted , and other forms of fiction that compose much of California Department of Justice-provided Stop Data. Outside of this, I have importuned the CA-DOJ about its misrepresentations in claiming to have complied with the legal requirements contained in Article 6. Audits and Validation, § 999.229 of AB953. Included in my rants were regular references to the admonitions of Chief Medrano, a current employee of the CA-DOJ; the clearest that I have heard on the matter of Data Integrity, Auditing and Validation.   Early this year, or late last year, I found occasion to adjure the CA-DOJ on the matter again. In that adjuration I referred to the participation of CA-DOJ’s own personnel in the publication of an excellent discourse, rather a manual, on Stop Data Collection. It is a document that, by definition, incorporates procedures meant to ensur

Hylton Remembers: While The Mich Cows Remain Productive and The Beatings are Unabated

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 Around 1970, when I was but a wee boy, of nineteen, Nikita Khrushchev published a memoir: Khrushchev Remembers. I liked the sound of the title and emulate it often. Hylton remembers that POST, the sister Agency of the CA-DOJ, the one that launched the investigation that brought about Montana’s investigation of Hylton, including the interception of his mail, was an award-winner too .  Yes, on recollection, the YouTube video and perhaps RIPA documents and including items on YouTube, claim, rather trumpet, that POST’s video productions, a central part of its now, much reviled curriculum, was an award winner too.   The following is what the California Department of Justice has to say about its ward, or its ward's the award-winning spawn or relative:   After the DPA’s award-winning 2020 audit of SFPD’s use of force policy, SFPD implemented about half of DPA’s recommendations by June 2022. The DPA is increasingly closing cases based on evidence, rather than claiming the evidence insuff

Oh my God, you killed Stumpy. You bastards

You would think that they, The Huntington Park PD, were in the presence of Usain Bolt; a Bolt running on stumps who was running away from them, albeit armed with a knife. You would also think that the bastards would be aware of, if not familiar with, the Supremes' ruling about fleeing felons. The bastards weren't. Who the fuck flees on stumps? That they are know-nothings should come as no surprise. To these hammer-wielding public protectors, the hammer must be raised overhead, on every occasion, especially those where hammering is inappropriate. These people, based on a very small dataset, are shown to point guns at Asian and Black people, at astronomical rates when compared to their population presence and when compared to Whites.  They killed Stumpy, the bastards.

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Profilers

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-04-28/audit-of-california-law-enforcement-finds-extreme-bias-among-officers-goes-unchecked The Title is pure theft; stolen from Ronan Farrow. Only the second clause applies, i.e. Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Profilers. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-death-of-words/  These comments are based on a Draft 2023 RIPA Report that was prepared in November 2023. Each page of that draft report ended with this caveat: DRAFT REPORT – PENDING EDITING AND REVIEW This draft is a product of various subcommittees of the Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board. It has been provided merely for the Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board’s consideration and its content does not necessarily reflect the views of any individual RIPA Board member, the full RIPA Board, or the California Department of Justice. In the interests of truth and transparency, I hope that the final 2023 RIPA Report shall have undergone substantial revis

The SFDPA is worthy of nothing; nothing other than special mention

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The City of San Francisco claims that it has created an independent group to handle complaints against the San Francisco Police Department. Believe it at you own risk of embarrassment; embarrassment for unwarranted gullibility. The SF DPA ( Department of Police Accountability ) was off to a spectacular start. In the first year of their existence, under the very noses of the RIPA Advisory Board, they reported zero complaints. I do not know what they did next, and do not care to know, for I do know their purpose and intended utility. The SF DPA exists to suppress complaints and/or to mischaracterize them; something that produces the same results. The following may have put a cap on my attempt to file a third party complaint with the bastards.  Richard Hylton From: Richard Hylton <rhylton@san.rr.com> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2022 9:20 AM To: 'AB953'; 'SF DPA' Cc: Nancy Beninati;

Lies, Damned Lies and Smart Street Lights

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When you Google "San Diego Grand Jury Smart Street Lights" the following appears at the top of the displayed list: In the Grand Jury's investigation, no objective data was presented that the use of Smart Streetlights by the San Diego Police Department presents any abuse of privacy issues. The Smart Streetlight technology is non-discriminatory. Lies are sometimes omissions. Most people know that technology is usually non-discriminatory, but that the application of technology can be discriminatory and often is. I suppose that is why the people who made the above sentence available did not bother to tell us, the Googlers, that around 80% of the supposedly smart things were placed where the populations are predominantly Black or Brown people. The San Diego DA's position is also telling; that office speaks about everything except about where the Smart Street Lights have been placed, i.e. the ethnic composition, of the neighbourhoods, and of those who were prosecuted using