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RIPA them off or Baffle them with bullshit or Why deal with disparities when you can talk about footprints.

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California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board Releases First Annual Report On January 1, 2018 the Attorney General’s Office released the First Annual Report ; it left much to be desired. I will not take this opportunity to be comprehensive in criticism, instead I will be circumspect by addressing critical issues. How to Determine the “Denominator” [1] . This section of the report is lifted from a boiler-plate that was crafted by beguilers; the section is tripe, for it addresses stops alone (or should), even as it makes cursory mention of other post-stop actions. All who examine stops will note that this “no mean feat” only becomes a “feat” when the experiences on Blacks and Hispanics, in all their inglorious abomination, “shine plain.” Only then is there a need for “ those analyzing the data must first take into account factors that could legitimately explain and justify any apparent differences that may be observed.” No explanation is possible. Even, if there we