Great minds think alike: fools seldom differ

Today, December 5, 2019, was a banner day for Racial Profiling reports, by locals, in San Diego. I found nothing new in any of them. Not even the cowardice. I take comfort in the fact that all of my yelping, though in vain, was not without factual basis. Two groups; one commissioned by the ACLU and another of unknown authority or support, concluded that being Black or Hispanic is bad business, if you encounter the cops. Only very bright people would have come to such conclusions. Great minds all.

The usual sycophants were well quoted; mendicants and sycophants all repeating the old tired phrases. Give them a donation. That will shut them up.

In God we trust. All others must bring data...Bloomberg.

What was troubling was the abject failure to comment on the quality of the data; it has no quality.
So what?

Comments

Collecting, Categorizing and Analyzing Demographic Data in San Diego in the years of the Profiling Plague.

A letter essentially identical to the below was sent to Chief Lansdowne on the date indicated. I refrained from using my preferred expression "bullshit detector" and instead used the lame "balderdash detector." I must and will do better. February 15, 2014 William Lansdowne Chief, San Diego Police Department By email to : sdpdpolicechief @pd.sandiego.gov Subsequent to my communication, to you, that contained my analysis of 2013 stop data , I located one or more Official San Diego documents that contained other analyses and officer comments. The analyses were not at odds with mine. So were the observations and comments, including those of the officers and supervisors. I harbour no doubt that you are familiar with all of them. Aside from directing you to the obvious, i.e. the possibility of constituting stop analysis data from Citation data [1] , I will let you re-read them for yourself. Vehicle Stop Form Racial Categories The United States

Berkeley; the bastion of progressive values?

April 26, 2018 Yesterday, I sent the within to the Mayor of Berkeley and others, in the mayor's office, as listed. Much nothing will come of it; not until Berkeley is sued for some atrocity in policing. Believe me, it is just a matter of time. Doubtless we will have the usual protestations, denials and promises. The lot below shall not be able to say that they did not know of the rot; the oppression; the bias. Berkeley's data is, for want of a polite expression, piss-poor. This opinion may be partly driven by the fact that the data is not in the form that Berkeley represents it to be; that over 3,400 records have no demographic data, and that it leaves out some of the most basic, the most common, policing data elements. On the other hand, it carries data of other persons involved in the stop, but one cannot determine who is driver and who is passenger. It is, as it is, but it tells the same old story, and it tells plenty; albeit less vividly than most other places. Mayor

Even More Fatally Flawed And Still Unfit for Purpose

Subject: RIPA Advisory Board – More Fatally Flawed and Still Unfit for Purpose I hold that the 2025 RIPA Annual Report shall be a diversion; one intended to distract us from the devastating findings from last year where we saw: Obscene disparities, and Massive data anomalies, including un-reported and/or ma-reported stop records, affecting 17% of the then around 540 reporting agencies. Even though, from time to time, I and other RIPA Meeting attendees get 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 when not using the chicanery of the arcane in presented results, have featured/selected an "undocumentable" distraction, but one that makes for interesting discussion: The Effect of Police Interactions with Youth , and made it the fo

Musings of a crackpot

Search This Blog