Musings of a crackpot

About a week ago, one of my many daily emails was more than a little bit interesting. I believe it came from the Los Angeles Times. These communications usually close with a short tale from contributors that describes a California experience. In the instant story, this person had gone to the beach and found him or herself in the midst of a school of playful dolphins. The recounter was impressed by the magical nature of California life. My story is the same, but some would not think so. It was about 1967 during summer vacation. One of the clique, composed of Gladstone Douglas, Clive Mollison, Claude Foster and the writer, decided to build a raft- superior to that used by Tom and Huck, I assure you. Since Jumbo's (Gladstone Douglas) house was a mere 50 metres from the sea (Kingston Harbour) the engineering works were sited there. The chief engineer produced a contraption where an oil drum was placed at either end, and each was secured, by rope, to a "bed" made of 2 X 4s

The following is an arithmetical summary of the most common vehicle stop and post-stop actions by the San Diego Police Department for the period shown. The items summarized may be used to derive other statistically significant data, e.g. Disparity Index, Contraband Discovery Rates per search etc. City of San Diego Vehicle Stop Data All Combined Race Category Stop Recs Stop Rec % Cited Cited ToStops Arrested Arrests ToStops Searched Searched ToStops Consent Obtained Consent ToStops Asian               12254 8.5 6624 54.056 131 1.069 428 3.493 109 0.89 Black               16140 11.196 7754 48.042 303 1.877