Musings of a crackpot

California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board Releases First Annual Report On January 1, 2018 the Attorney General’s Office released the First Annual Report ; it left much to be desired. I will not take this opportunity to be comprehensive in criticism, instead I will be circumspect by addressing critical issues. How to Determine the “Denominator” [1] . This section of the report is lifted from a boiler-plate that was crafted by beguilers; the section is tripe, for it addresses stops alone (or should), even as it makes cursory mention of other post-stop actions. All who examine stops will note that this “no mean feat” only becomes a “feat” when the experiences on Blacks and Hispanics, in all their inglorious abomination, “shine plain.” Only then is there a need for “ those analyzing the data must first take into account factors that could legitimately explain and justify any apparent differences that may be observed.” No explanation is possible. Even, if there we...

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...

In one of my earlier rants, I mentioned that the City of Sacramento's Stop Data did provide the means of identifying the individualized conduct of its officers, and to that end I had sought that of the " Shootists " who had gunned down Stephon Clark, because he brandished a lethal cellphone with his back turned, whilst in his grandmother's backyard. It was a fool's errand, probably the result of tiredness, for I should have known better. As is par for the course, the city of Sacramento refused, citing an unsubstantiated claim of concern for officer safety. The city does know that a specific or particularized threat needs to exist for its invocation of the safety exclusion, but they also know that their resources are greater than mine. While waiting for the above; serendipity! In browsing a local Sacramento newspaper there was an account of the interaction of Sacramento PD officer Anthony Figueroa and 23 year-old Nandi Cain  in or around April 2017. I leapt at th...

The California Department of Justice has had the power and obligation to take all necessary steps to ensure that the laws of the State are equally applied and that persons are not denied the protections of the California and United States Constitutions, on prohibited bases. That the CA-DOJ has failed in this undertaking; has failed spectacularly is not open to debate; see first its 11 month-tardy implementation of  the base requirements of AB953. The CA_DOJ has had access to Sacramento's Database of Police interactions which Database are the basis for officer evaluation— an early warning system—and failed to act on it. That the local stewards of the business of the City of Sacramento, failed to curtail the exercise of the baser instincts of the "S hootists", of recent renown, is worse. Their inclinations towards Blacks shine plain and have done so for years. There is at least 2 years of data to prove it. At this writing, I do not have the identification of the individu...