[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.

[Alia]

The science of understanding combinant Race DNA is so very inconclusive. Therefore, our racialists here in CA can only rely upon "skin color" as a means to suggest certain medical tests (tay-sachs, sickle-cell); HOWEVER, the very same racialists are all over the map decrying racial profiling (and I concur) -- which is, of course, what they do in the course of "using" the science of race to apply medical techniques/tests. Are they nuts or what? :)

...Alia

[familyop]

"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."

Agreed.