[Alia]

Yours:

While I don't think a law should stop the police from describing a wanted person as "black" or "white", we should stop collecting crime data according to racial categories (if we really want to be consistent under the RPI). ,end,

The RPI will not stop the police from carrying out legitimate duties of apprehending criminals.

Passage of the RPI (www.racialprivacy.org) codifies anti-racial-profiling measures into the California Constitution -- a real first for any state in the nation.

...Alia

[familyop]

The RPI, even.

;-)

[Tired of Taxes]

Thanks for posting the link below which says:

Because the value of data collection is dubious and the cost potentially enormous, RPI prohibits state-mandated data collection in the context of law enforcement but does not foreclose the possibility should local agencies want to bear the costs and risks of this experimental reaction.

That's what I wanted to hear. I'm glad to see that racial data collection would be prohibited, to a certain extent, without prohibiting officers from referring to race in the descriptions of wanted criminals. Hopefully, this will pass in CA, and the rest of the country will follow suit.