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Even More Fatally Flawed and Still Unfit for Purpose

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 Report thing seem to be embarassed by facts, especially the data facts. So let me begin with a summary of data facts for the most concerning issues. On the basis of 21.3 Million RIPA-reported 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 data anomalies that call into question the accuracy of RIPA reported data. Despite its legal obligation to verify the integrity of RIPA-reported data, for the sixth succeding year, the CJIS of the CA-DOJ has failed to meet that obligation; with catastrophic effect. More than 580,000 rows of data show perso
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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
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Hylton Remembers: While The Mich Cows Remain Productive and The Beatings are Unabated

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

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
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