Recently I suggested to a reporter at the Northwest Herald that the newspaper investigate how many calls were placed to the McHenry County Sheriff's Department on Monday, December 13, when the CALEA inspectors were there to examine the Department for its application for accreditation?
Not only was there no article at the time, but there has been no article since.
The information about the number of calls and, possibly, the topics of the calls, should be available by FOIA. A Department telephone number was publicized.
There was one major problem, though. Members of the public were invited to comment on how MCSD was doing in regard to CALEA. The problem? How would members of the public know how the Department was doing. CALEA standards have never been publicized.
Recently, news has emerged via a hearing in a Rockford Federal court that that an issue involving racial profiling did, indeed, exist at the Sheriff's Department, contrary to denials of Sheriff Nygren. It turns out that there was a second set of records, for tickets that were issued but never reported to IDOT. Lots of them.
When a deputy (or more than one deputy) makes many traffic stops and records the race of a Hispanic driver as Caucasian (white), isn't that going to tilt statistics submitted to IDOT about the race of the driver stopped?
Do you suppose there is a CALEA standard that reads, "Record the driver's race correctly"?
It's not rocket science!
You never know who is interested…
3 months ago
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The thing I find interesting about this one is that most people believe that the term "Hispanic" is one about ethnicity not race. In the most recent US Census over half of those with "Hispanic" ethnic surnames self identified themselves as white. Perhaps Zane will sue all those who self identified their own race as white for falsifying federal documents. Or perhaps we need to question if a person with dark black skin in Puerto Rico is Hispanic or Black or if one is his ethnicity and one is his race?
Census "Enumerators" (census takers) in Woodstock reported to Census management that many Hispanics insisted that their race be recorded as Hispanic or Latino, not as White.
Instructions on the Census form, to be read to those interviewed, read, "For the purpose of this Census, Hispanic is not a race", or some similar wording.
That head-in-the-sand approach reduced the value and validity of the Census.
Everyone was writing down AMERCIAN rather than a race.
Down here in the Southwest,we find that the prefered self identity is Mexican. Mexicans do not want to be called hispanic. When I lived in South Florida, it was the same with Cuban's.
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