Fatally Flawed and Unfit For Purpose
These comments are largely based on the Final RIPA Report that was made available on December 31, 2021. The close to 300 pages was supplemented or should have been supplemented by a Dashboard. The link to the Dashboard did not work. After 40 days and many communications later, the Dashboard’s contents were “incrementally” moved to where they may be accessed. The Dashboards are unlike what most persons are used to: they conceal, rather than disclose. But most important, that which they rarely do disclose is often wrong. Regrets! If you like fiction, you will have liked the 2022 RIPA Stop Data Report, advice of which may have appeared in your mailbox two months ago. If you like your fiction to feature happy talk, you will be delighted with the notification email and the report itself. For while the CA-DOJ propagandizes the diminution in stops, it fails to mention that almost all adverse disparities, especially those that threaten life and limb, of Black and Brown people, disproportiona