By now, Police Chief Scott Bixby is quite familiar with the Racial and Identity Profiling Act that requires law enforcement to record the approximate race and gender of everyone they stop.
And whether they are vegan or normal.
They also have to note how-a well-a da poi-son speaks da Ingles. If he is mute, they must judge what language he looks as if he should speak.
Cops also must note a suspect’s disabilities.
Atty. Gen. Xavy (I Love Bean-counting) Becerra, who grew up hundreds of miles from Cripple Creek, will judge if certain departments are arresting too many guys who do not look and smell like them.
The state Legislature has declared that too many non-white lawbreakers – and too few non-non-white lawbreakers are being hauled over.
While the act takes effect in large departments in July, California’s smaller police departments, like Culver City, can stop true bad guys only until 2022.
As for Culver City, “this is going to create a whole lot more work for us,” said Chief Bixby.
“I am afraid it could actually…
“We will just have to see how the stats go.
“In the past, you make a stop and move on to your next.
“Now we are going to have to track everything – how long they were stopped, race, sex.
“This is kind of funny,” said Chief Bixby, “because in this time of immigration fear where (we are told) ‘don’t ask too many questions,’ this is going to require us to not only ask more questions, but more intrusive questions.”
The chief believes the burden of remarkably extraneous rules will cause offers to pass on some suspicious cases because he will reason there is too much paperwork to fill out and skip the bad guy.