"CAREN" law proposed in San Francisco

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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CNN story: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/us/caren-act-911-san-francisco-trnd/index.html

The acronym stands for Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies, which is one of the more stupid forced acronyms I have ever encountered.

Also, isn’t calling in a false emergency report already against the law? Enforce that law and maybe you won’t need this one.

I’m not clear that SF is much of a hotbed of this sort of thing, seeing what progressives we all are. And there is already a state bill making the rounds that does the same thing. This proposed city law strikes me as publicity-seeking grandstanding for political gain.

Here is my favorite nonsense quote from the article:

Though making a false police report is a misdemeanor or felony offense in many states, including California, accountability is lacking for making racially biased calls to law enforcement.

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My uninformed take on this is that it’s basically the difference between a regular crime and a hate crime. Making a false emergency report is bad. Making a false emergency report in hopes of getting a black (or other racial minority) person arrested or killed specifically because of their race is worse.

Also, I really wish politicians would knock off the shitty acronym thing. It’s not clever.

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“What does that tell you?”
“It tells me you really wanted it to come out to spell SHIELD”

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I’d like to see a law against stigmatizing actual Karens.