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