Subject: RIPA Advisory Board – More Fatally Flawed and Still Unfit for Purpose Even though, from time to time, we have access to more than mere snippets of the 2025 RIPA Annual Report, I am still left wondering what sort of withheld madness --Lying By Omission-- remains in store for the public, come January 1, 2025. The authors of that RIPA Report seem to be embarassed by facts, especially the data facts, and have selected an "undocumentable" distraction and made it the focus of the 2025 report. I do not like distractions, so let me begin with a summary of reported -data facts for the most concerning issues. On the basis of 21.3 Million RIPA-reported but mostly unverified records: Reported stops have rebounded to almost pre-pandemic levels for many large LEAs. Reported stops for many large LEAs continue to be marrred by computed and visible data anomalies that call into question the accuracy of RIPA reported data. Despite its legal obligation to verify the integrity of RIPA