CU-Boulder Police Will No Longer Describe Race or ‘Perceived Gender’ of Crime Suspects in Order to be Inclusive
“Only behaviors are considered suspicious –– and not race, ethnicity or perceived gender or religious affiliations.”
This is just plain stupid. Why will no one state the obvious?
Campus Reform reports:
CU Boulder’s police to cease reference to race, ‘perceived gender’ of unidentified suspects, to be ‘inclusive’
The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) police department announced on July 12 it is expanding its diversity, equity, and inclusion training (DEI), which will include “inclusive, accurate language to describe suspects.”
“Alerts language revisions are expected to include more accurate, inclusive language around suspect descriptions pertaining to race and ethnicity,” Patricia Gonsalez, director of CU Boulder’s College of Arts and Sciences Office for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI), told CU Boulder Today. “Only behaviors are considered suspicious –– and not race, ethnicity or perceived gender or religious affiliations.”
CU Boulder’s Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) and JEDI collaborated to implement language changes to be used in the police department’s future emergency communications, according to CU Boulder Today.
Campus Reform contacted Gonsalez to inquire if the language changes could lead to a less accurate description of the suspect. Campus Reform also asked for examples of common “non-inclusive” language that is frequently used by cops and what should be said instead. She was given 24 hours, but no response was received.
Campus Reform also asked Reiland Rabaka, the CAAAS director and professor of African, African American and Caribbean Studies, the same questions. Campus Reform gave him 24 hours to respond, but no response was received.
Olivia Doak, a Daily Camera reporter who covers stories about CU Boulder, explained the training in further detail. “Police officers must be specific about the identity of the suspect if it’s known rather than identifying them as having dark skin.”
“If no identity is known, then the training instructs officers not to make assumptions and to focus on other identifying traits, such as type of car driven or color and type of clothing,” Doak wrote in the Daily Camera.
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This change assures that suspects for violent crimes will be less likely to be apprehended. Innocent people will die. Life is more important than “correctness.”
Law enforcement to victim: you have the right to remain silent, anything you say can be used as evidence…
Respectfully — if you were planning to enroll at CU-Boulder, and this article (above) does not make you change your plans, then imho there really is something seriously wrong with you.
Likewise, if you had been planning to move to Boulder for job or family.
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Sometimes, we can find ourselves chatting amicably with a stranger. And then the stranger might mention that he has to return to his spaceship. And at that point we realize that in fact the person we’d been chatting with is actually living in a different reality. That’s what this CU-Boulder story feels like. It cannot end well.
I think that sane American families will steer clear of CU-Boulder and Boulder, Colorado … just like sane drivers steer clear of a poison-waste spill on the interstate.
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Hey Professor Jacobson!! See if you can prevail upon Mr. LaChance to do a couple of follow-up progress reports on this story!!! Please!!!!
“Only behaviors are considered suspicious –– and not race, ethnicity or perceived gender or religious affiliations.”
This is correct, and how it always should have been. But…
“Alerts language revisions are expected to include more accurate, inclusive language around suspect descriptions pertaining to race and ethnicity,”
… this is taking “inclusivity” to stupid new levels. Taken literally, there is no description that can’t be interpreted as a proxy for race, ethnicity, or gender*.
Focusing on clothing or car descriptions will mean criminals will all wear generic hoodies and shoes (and have a change available) and drive silver Hondas. (Or, being that this is Colorado, red Jeeps.)
They say they want “accurate” descriptions, but accuracy requires a multitude of describable traits. Arbitrarily limiting what traits are allowed or not allowed in descriptions will necessarily reduce accuracy; it cannot do anything else.
In the name of “inclusivity” and “fairness”, someone (or a lot of someones) is gonna get hurt, and the police will be hamstrung to find, identify, or charge the criminal. It will empower the criminal class over the law-abiding**.
Which I suspect is the actual point.
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* – Not exaggerating. Eye color? Blue eyes, for example, are almost unheard of outside white people. Hair color? First, hair can be dyed easily, and second, true black hair (for example) is extremely rare outside “people of color”. “Body shape” — and to a lesser extent, height and/or size — is no different from “perceived gender”.
** – A possible unintended consequence is that law-abiding people, knowing the police are hamstrung, will start fighting back harder that they would have before, if for no other reason than to “mark” their assailants. Police will start getting descriptions including things like, “Look for the person with a black eye, broken nose, and limping on their left side from where I stomped their knee.” No forbidden descriptors, but not likely to be many of those!
Calling all cars!
Calling all cars!
Be on the lookout for a… a person!
Armed and dangerous!
Do not approach!
Really, this is “Ms. Swan’s” entire comedy routine… except that Ms. Swan was being even more specific than the Boulder police are now allowed to be.
Comedy is tragedy plus time… and Democrat policy is comedy plus time.
That sounds both pretty ableist and speciesist to me. And why are the bicycle cops let off the hook? We must include them as well.
Future calls will be something doing something somewhere, maybe.
We can call it “Ilhan Omar policing”: “some people did something.”
Now you’re assigning blame. How do you know it wasn’t just “something happened”? In the Leftist canon, there is no individual; there is only class membership.
There is nothing new about this. Just about every newspaper, television station, etc hides the race of criminals because we know who 70+ percent of them are.