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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