{"id":10001,"date":"2024-02-06T11:25:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=10001"},"modified":"2024-02-06T11:25:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T19:25:31","slug":"new-york-california-laws-turn-police-into-clerks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=10001","title":{"rendered":"New York &#038; California Laws Turn Police Into Clerks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you are a police officer in a high-crime urban district responding to a report of a drive by shooting.\u00a0 As you and your partner begin talking to witnesses a local law requires you to fill out a form listing the race, age and sex of everybody you talk to. The New York City Council has just passed the &#8220;How Many Steps Act&#8221; to require police to do this, supposedly to discourage racial profiling. California puts even more of a burden on police with the Racial &amp; Identify Profiling <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/ab953\">Act<\/a>. As a legislator, Attorney General Rob Bonta voted for this law. It requires officers to fill out an eight page form with 200 fields. Heather MacDonald has this City Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/the-decadence-of-identity-politics\">piece<\/a> breaking down what amounts to the most stupid anti-police legislation ever adopted.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The form, generated by the California Department of Justice, comes straight from race-and gender-studies classrooms. The officer first documents whether he,<em> the officer<\/em>, is a \u201ccisgender man, cisgender woman, transgender man, transgender woman, or nonbinary person.\u201d To avoid placing a retrogressive \u201cgender\u201d straitjacket on the state\u2019s public servants, the form allows an officer to check <em>both<\/em> \u201cNonbinary person\u201d <em>and<\/em> one of the other categories, such as \u201cCisgender woman.\u201d \u201cN\/A\u201d is not an option; the officer <em>must<\/em> list a sexual identity. Naturally, there is also an extensive \u201cOfficer race or ethnicity\u201d section, asking whether the officer is \u201cAsian, Hispanic\/Latine(X), Black\/African, Native American, Middle Eastern or South Asian, Pacific Islander, White,\u201d or a combination of the above.<\/p>\n<p>Then the officer documents the civilian\u2019s \u201cperceived sexual orientation: LGB+ or Straight\/Heterosexual\u201d and the civilian\u2019s \u201cperceived gender: Cisgender man\/boy, Cisgender woman\/girl, Transgender man\/boy, transgender woman\/girl, or nonbinary person.\u201d Here, too, the discerning officer is allowed to surmise that the person stopped is both a \u201cTransgender man\/boy\u201d and a \u201cNonbinary person.\u201d How is the officer to make those judgments, without engaging in culpable \u201cstereotyping\u201d? Police academies across the state are going to have to contract with Judith Butler for a \u201cgender theory\u201d module. The civilian\u2019s \u201cperceived race or ethnicity\u201d must be as narrowly described.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>None of this information has anything to do with apprehending criminals or solving crimes. The law turns police officers into clerks collecting data for race and gender identity narratives. Is anyone surprised that New York and California cities are hemorrhaging police officers and failing to recruit replacements? Both states are awash with carjackings, gang shootings, drug trafficking, looting and assault. Police are too busy filling out Attorney General Bonta&#8217;s forms than to actually catch criminals. It is high time for the voting public to fire the politicians who voted for this idiocy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you are a police officer in a high-crime urban district responding to a report of a drive by shooting.\u00a0 As you and your partner begin talking to witnesses a local law requires you to fill out a form listing the race, age and sex of everybody you talk to. The New York City Council has just passed the &#8220;How Many Steps Act&#8221; to require police to do this, supposedly to discourage racial profiling. California puts even more of a burden on police with the Racial &amp; Identify Profiling Act. As a legislator, Attorney General Rob Bonta voted for this law. It requires officers to fill out an eight page form with 200 fields. Heather MacDonald has this City Journal piece breaking down what amounts to the most stupid anti-police legislation ever adopted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New York &amp; California Laws Turn Police Into Clerks - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=10001\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New York &amp; California Laws Turn Police Into Clerks - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Imagine you are a police officer in a high-crime urban district responding to a report of a drive by shooting.\u00a0 As you and your partner begin talking to witnesses a local law requires you to fill out a form listing the race, age and sex of everybody you talk to. 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