Kill ‘Em Now

As a kid, I was taught that honesty is the best policy. As an adult, I know that rarely is a politician honest with anyone; especially in front of a microphone. When they are it is either a breath of fresh air or the stench of hell. This week the latter occurred in the state of Alabama.

Alabama is viewed by many as a conservative state because it is in the South and part of the so-called “Bible Belt”. This perception is false. Let’s recap some facts about Alabama.

Folks the South was a Democrat stronghold for 100 years after Reconstruction and not until Ronald Reagan did any Southern States vote in mass for a Republican. The problem is this, how can you be a Christian and a Democrat in today’s world? They are mutually exclusive ideologies. No, I’m not saying that the Republican Party is all sweetness and light or always right but they usually tolerate Christianity to some degree.

Alabama, as you may recall, was the center of controversy when Judge Roy Moore posted the Ten Commandments in his courtroom. These same Commandments are carved in marble at the US Supreme Court building but somehow too hot to be in a regular courtroom. So much for the myth of the “Bible Belt”.

I hate talking about race but here are a few pertinent facts. Alabama has many folks descended from slaves living there. Most of these people are still living on the plantation of their Democrat Masters. Those on the Democrat plantation have many corrupt and bad leaders bent on keeping these former slaves in bondage.

One form of bondage is the false gospel that many hear week after week in the pulpit. These false shepherds were corrupted decades ago in many ways. Their false gospel cannot free anyone from the bondage of sin. Besides departing from orthodox theology, these fake shepherds were corrupted thru purposeful planning by the Democrat Party, KKK, and supporters of eugenics (the belief that some races are superior to others).

Enter Margaret Sanger and her Birth Control League. Sanger wanted to eliminate the poor and genetically inferior peoples from our planet. It was a logical application of the theories embraced as a result of Charles Darwin and taking seriously his axiom of survival of the fittest. The question is how do you convince the unfit not to reproduce? In part, Sanger made a concerted effort to convince black ministers that aborting black babies was a compassionate act. She knew that the way to influence black folks was thru the churches so she corrupted them. (Of course when voluntary cooperation was not enough, she and her fellow travelers pursuing eugenics would find other means such as forced sterilization and “final solutions” to balance the scales of society.)

Anyway, here we are 100 years after Sanger began her crusade to “eliminate poverty by eliminating the poor”. “Weeds” —as Sanger called black folks—voluntarily self-abort 38 percent of their children at the altar of choice. Sangers’ organization, known today as Planned Parenthood, typically locates a facility anywhere there is a concentration of black people just to make controlling their population easier. Not only that, but virtually every black in public office supports the murder of their own race as a condition of holding elected office in the Democrat Party.

Those that dare to believe that All Black Lives Matter find that there is no place for them at the table or in the public square. Such people are marginalized or portrayed as sellouts to their people.

Against this backdrop, we have politician John Rogers, Democrat representative in Alabama, this week demanding that black children be murdered now.

John Rogers wants black babies and those with handicaps to die

“Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later. You bring them in the world unwanted, unloved, you send them to the electric chair. So, you kill them now or you kill them later,” Rogers said.


He continued by saying some children who face abortion could be “retarded” and “half-deformed.”

Reacting to this outrageous and evil statement, Donald Trump Jr., the President’s son, took to Twitter:

“This is stomach curling and makes Ralph Northam look like a moderate on abortion,” Trump Jr. tweeted, referencing the Virginia governor’s support for a failed abortion bill — an endorsement that critics likened to support of infanticide. “Every Democrat running for President needs to be asked where they stand on this. The extreme turn we’ve seen from Dems on abortion recently is truly sickening.”

(Ralph Northam is the Virginia Governor that recently advocated not just abortion for all nine months –which is legal now under Roe v Wade—but infanticide if the mom changes her mind after the birth of her child.)

Rogers then responded to Trump by calling for his death and doubling down of his abortion comments.

When asked by WVTM to react to the president’s son, Rogers laughed, saying Trump Jr. was “proof” that women should have a right to an abortion and called his statement “stupid.”


He even suggested that Trump Jr. was “retarded or crazy.”


“I know there’s something wrong with that boy,” Rogers said. “I look at him and I can tell there’s something wrong with him. That’s the best defense I have for more abortions right there looking at him.”

Link: Alabama Dem attacks Trump Jr. with slur after abortion comments spark outcry

Why Things Don’t Get Fixed

Government doesn’t fix things. Yes they may occasionally move around the deck chairs but to actually solve problems; especially without creating even more problems, is a rarity. Government grows both in scope and power. Both Parties agree with the premise, just not which areas that the growth should occur. Or as David Chilton once observed, politics is Rousseau’s children fighting on the playground.

A fixture in our system of government are lobbying groups. They too are dedicated to holding forth an ideal in such a pure form that they rarely will agree to incremental change, they want it all and want it right now…or else. Of course each group gives rise to either a group advocating exactly the opposite point of view or starting a cycle of dependency with no defined endpoint.

Here are a few examples.

Abortion

When Ronald Reagan was President, he wrote a book called. Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation. Reagan was proudly pro-life and viewed as a guy that had an honest chance of overturning Roe v Wade via Supreme Court appointments.

The pro-life lobbying groups at the time did not want Roe eroded but demanded the Human Life Amendment. Support of this Amendment was the Conservatives litmus test of orthodoxy. If you didn’t support it, you weren’t going to get endorsements. As you would predict, those who supported abortion on demand used all this to fundraise for their side. As a result of the all or nothing position staked-out by abortion opponents, nothing changed. Roe was still intact after eight years of Reagan.

Guns

Those wishing to outlaw private gun ownership tried during the administrations of Clinton and Obama to curtail gun rights. They used every crime not committed by Muslims or illegal aliens to put forward their narrative but were beaten back by gun rights groups. Both sides raised and spent massive amounts of money but neither won a decisive victory.

Immigration

Immigration is a similar issue. Conservatives want to stem the tide of people coming into our country while liberals see them as another dependent group that will vote for them. Voter I.D. and birthright citizenship are a part of this issue also. Both sides have purposely staked-out absolutist positions but are unwilling to fix the broke systems giving rise to this problem.

One-sided Issues

Some proposals have only one side organized to advocate for them. Sadly, many of these, once begun have no endpoint. Affirmative Action comes to mind. People say they want it but at what point will its goal be achieved? The answer of course is never. Welfare to end poverty is another. Another is Reparations. Reparations, for what Democrats like Andrew Jackson did to the Indians; reparations for slavery; reparations for Spanish exploration; reparations for Captain Cook discovering Hawaii; etc.

Thanks to Ronald Reagan, we already gave reparations to the people in Japanese internment camps, of course most of these folks were dead before this action was taken. Of course reparations are not returning property to anyone just giving them a check. In this case, $20K each.

Reagan signing Civil Rights Act of 1988

An apology from the government is one thing, or insuring it doesn’t happen again…unless Michelle Malkin is right…is another.

Once we go down this path, there is no end point.

As a country, we’ve done things we shouldn’t but reparations is just a “shakedown” ala Jesse Jackson and the Just Us Brothers. Why stop reparations there? We never declared war in Vietnam so do we owe them money too? What about bombing Dresden or atomic bombs on Japan?

Government measures its success by the number of people dependent upon it not the number that don’t need their programs and services. Against that backdrop, what incentive does government have to fix anything?

Mankind’s Long History

Think about it, government takes but produces nothing. However, this is nothing new. You can read it for yourself in the Bible. 3,000 years ago, Israel wanted a king because they weren’t happy that God was their sovereign. See if this sounds familiar:

10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
I Samuel 8

Conclusion

The only difference that I see is that tyranny in the Bible was limited to ten percent of what you have whereas now government takes what it wants without limits. The old H.L. Richardson quotation comes to mind, “Yeah, but look what we let them keep”. Folks this is the Democrats definition of limited government, they don’t need it now so they let you keep it.

California Senator H.L. Richardson

Things don’t get fixed because those in power profit by letting the problem persist or they need the issue as a talking point for the next election.

Last point is this, if government really followed the Constitution, who represents us in Washington would be irrelevant because it would have no effect on your daily life. The fact that it does is all you need to know. Our Republic is broken. The only solution that government offers is more government.

Trump Wins Again

Image Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer praising Donald Trump on television for being bipartisan. Well that day is today. As many of us predicted, Trump and Democrats have agreed to a framework for rebuilding infrastructure.

Both Schumer and Pelosi said they believe they can strike a deal with Trump on infrastructure, even as congressional Democrats ramp up investigations of the president and subpoena members of his administration in the wake of the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report.


“I believe we can do both at once,” Schumer said, adding they aren’t “mutually exclusive”


“Building infrastructure of America has never been a partisan issue,” Pelosi said, saying Democrats “hope to go forward in a very nonpartisan way for the future.”

Link: Schumer says Trump agreed to $2T infrastructure package at White House meeting

This is a big win for Trump who is keeping another campaign promise and also creating jobs for Democrat voters, just in time for the next election.

Oh, and unlike some other Presidents, many of these jobs will be shovel ready—especially along the border.

The Farce of Tesla

Sales

Tesla sold 244,920 vehicles in 2018 and some on Wall Street said they were the number two US automaker–up until Ford’s quarterly financial report was released this week. What a crock.

Over the same period—2018—Ford sold 5,982,000 vehicles.

The math is this; Tesla sold four percent as many vehicles as Ford and people said Ford was the number three automaker.

Folks, we don’t even know if Tesla is selling their vehicles at cost let alone making a profit. Ford is outselling Tesla by a huge amount. Ford sold 5,737,080 more vehicles than Tesla and somehow Elon Musk is our role model?

Tesla is tethered technology.

Both my buddy with the Chevy Volt and my future son-in-law who owns a Tesla, have the same problem. Namely, where to charge the vehicles.

My buddy with the Volt says he tried to go to Oregon with his Volt and found that he was stuck near the I-5 corridor because there was no place to charge the car once you got away from the Interstate.

Tesla is s finicky vehicle. It has three charging modes: super-fast, medium, and super slow. My son-in-law candidate drives to Elk Grove from the S.F. Bay Area to see the daughter. Before going home, he must drive to the Arden Fair Mall because that is the only fast charging station in the area. After charging the Tesla for 45 minutes to an hour, he can then go home. Please understand that this means that he drives over an hour further to get to the mall and back for the privilege of charging his car. This charging evolution adds two hours to every visit that he makes here for the privilege of driving an electric car.

If you fail to use the Tesla installed charging stations, then plan to wait several hours—like six or more—to get a decent charge on the car. Lest you think I exaggerate, check out this story of a guy in New York that took his son to camp in a demonstration Tesla Model S given to members of the media. Here are excerpts of his travelogue.

I’ve screwed up my range calculations. We don’t have enough to make the closest partner charging station. The car was warning us of this, but we needed to get the boys dropped off on time. So we took a chance and ended up ALMOST RUNNING OUT OF GAS, er … ELECTRICITY!


There’s a cable in the truck of every Tesla that enables you to charge on the fly. But there are no high-speed charging options up here in the middle of nowhere in the Catskills. So we had to resort to the slowest option, good old 120-volt, wall-socket-level rejuicing.


You plug into this small charging port at the left rear of the Model S.

Tesla charging in BFE via 110 VAC

Photo by Matthew DeBord

… but we’ll be getting only 1 mile per hour of charging! That’s mega-slow.


A few hours, a few more miles in the battery, and we have enough to head back through the lovely scenery to find lodging — and charging — for the night.

Tesla charging at one mile per hour

Photo by Matthew DeBord

By the next morning, at a charging rate of 3 miles per hour, we have enough juice to make the closest partner charging location.
We’re plugged in …


… and drawing power again.


But this time, we’re charging much faster. In a few hours, we’ll have enough power to get to the closest Supercharger location.

Link: A year ago, I had an epic adventure in a Tesla Model S — here’s what happened

Short version was that failing to charge the car resulted in an additional day of travel because it charged so slow.

Tesla = Tax Opportunities

Many early adopters of electric vehicles think that one big advantage is avoiding paying gasoline taxes. I’m here to tell you now thatBig Brother” is completely aware that you aren’t paying your fair share for road maintenance and has plans to remedy the situation. Soon Tesla owners will be introduced to the long-rumored mileage tax. Yep, you will be billed for each mile travelled by the electric vehicle that you drive.

Thanks to folks like the Chinese; government now has the power to track electric vehicles (and probably internal combustion powered ones too) via GPS. So, you won’t even have to do paperwork, you will be issued a mileage bill from government each billing cycle. Oh, I’m sure they will be happy to receive their funds via autopay.

For some folks, Elon Musk can do no wrong; however, I’m not a believer. America flirted with electric vehicles over 100 hundred years ago and the internal combustion engine won. In a free market, I think that same outcome would happen today, but our markets are anything but free.

Government is willing to put their thumb on the scale to help Musk, but I don’t think that gets this technology over the finish line. They just give him an unfair advantage in the short run.

Until electric power is plentiful and readily available, such technology is a novelty. Sadly, California is moving away from readily available energy and towards limited options at higher prices. They are restricting the market not unleashing it. Socialist utopias are like that.

If I had the money, I would buy a Tesla, disconnect the battery, wrap the car in plastic and hide it in a non-descript barn for 150 years, then it might be worth owning; otherwise, I’m sitting this revolution out.

Tesla Burns While Elon Musk Offers Quieter Leaf Blower

Yes, when it comes to Elon Musk, the logical disconnect between fantasy and reality is a wide chasm. Yesterday, Tesla’s first quarter earnings report came out but instead of talking about his leadership, Musk was busy on Twitter offering the faithful a quieter leaf blower; oh, and it wasn’t even his idea.

Here’s the story:

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his company is planning to develop a new creation — only this time, it won’t be rolling on four wheels.

Elon Musk changing the subject away from cars
Elon Musk blowing more smoke on the Internet as his stock goes to pot
No argument here

Link: Elon Musk says Tesla will develop an ‘electric leaf blower’

But come to find out, the quitet leaf blower wasn’t Musk’s idea.

Actor Rainn Wilson of The Office has accused Tesla CEO Elon Musk of failing to give him proper credit for the idea for a quiet leaf blower.


Wilson, who portrayed Dwight Schrute on the NBC sitcom, demanded credit for the idea in a tweet to the Telsa CEO on Wednesday, after Musk announced his company would be making the product.

Link: The Office star Rainn Wilson blasts Elon Musk for ‘stealing’ his idea for a quiet leaf blower without giving credit

Meanwhile, the 90-Day Cycle was not kind to Tesla. Even with lowered expectations, Tesla missed the numbers that Wall Street was expecting. The stock closed today at $235.14

Tesla six month stock results

December 13th was the high mark in recent months with a close of $376.79. From December’s high to today’s close, the stock is off $141.65 per share. Looks like it’s time to cue the dumpster fire graphic.

Tesla stock prices crash and burn…some more

Check out this link to a CNBC panel discussion on Tesla’s woes.

Has reality finally caught-up to Tesla?

Ford Motor Co. on Friday regained its status as the No. 2 U.S. car maker in market value, leaving Tesla Inc. behind after a massive earnings beat that stoked a rally for Ford stock.


Ford F, -0.19% shares were at their best since July and amassed the largest one-day gain in a decade, bringing the company’s market valuation to around $40.7 billion late Friday.


Tesla TSLA, +0.90% shares traded at their lowest since January 2017, still reeling from the wider-than-expected first-quarter loss the company reported earlier this week. That brought Tesla’s market capitalization to around $40.6 billion.

Link: Ford passes Tesla as No. 2 U.S. car maker as stock goes on a tear

Ford–a car company that really sells cars not dreams

The Tesla story only makes sense in a Liberal Utopian or the Twilight Zone-which is opten the same place.

Really Right Tours “The Swamp”

Last week, I accompanied my family along with 16 eighth graders and some other adults to Washington D.C. The tour was thru an organization called “World Strides”. The cost is about $2,300 a person which included airfare, meals, admission to all venues, tour guide and bus to haul you about the area.

I plan to blog about the various places that we visited in future installments but to begin with I wanted to address the question of what makes DC different? Donald Trump and others call this region “The Swamp”. In the 1970’s Gary S Paxton called it “Potomac Fever”. Over the years, others have questioned whether there is something in the water that makes D.C. different. In short what makes this region so disjointed from the rest of the country. However, this is question is phrased, it remains, “Why don’t our representatives represent us?

I will offer a few thoughts based on my brief observations.

Washington DC is a rich and prosperous area. With trillions of dollars flowing thru the Federal government coffers, having a bureaucracy able to direct this amount of wealth is a daunting task. Government produces nothing but consumes much. Tens of thousands work in and around DC in support of “Uncle Sam”.

As the nation’s capital, much of the best housing, entertainment, and goods available are readily accessible. Gasoline is over a dollar a gallon cheaper than California. Housing costs are high but so are wages. Also, much housing is available just outside the District. Roads are not well maintained but mass transit of various sorts is accessible as well.

One thing that is clear is that elected representatives never have to interact with the public unless they choose to do so. While touring Congress, we entered thru the public entrance and elected folks have a private entrance. Members have token office space at the Capital and larger accommodations at nearby office buildings.

One example of the disconnect between California and its representatives is the statues on display in the capital building. Each state gets two statutes—typically bronze or marble—to represent them. I recall seeing Thomas Edison, Robert E Lee, Jefferson Davis, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, etc. The statutes representing California were Ronald Reagan and Father Junípero Serra.

Reagan was a President from California (as was Richard Nixon) and both were Republicans. I can understand Reagan but I’m not sure the average voter in the once Golden State would agree. Folks, I doubt the Reagan statute would be allowed to be prominently displayed, if at all, in our own Capital in Sacramento.

Ronald Reagan bronze statue in Capital Rotunda

The second statute, an image of Father Junípero Serra, represents California too. In the current political climate, there is no way in hell that Father Junípero Serra would be regarded by those in power as a representative of what is unique and good about California. Last I heard, Serra was about to get the Christopher Columbus treatment and be purged from our history and recast as an exploiter of native peoples. Serra was not the face of salvation and Christianity but an enslaver and exploiter of those that were—up to that time—living in blessed harmony with nature.


Father Junípero Serra lifting high the Cross of Christ

Visitors to our nation’s capital get to see both statutes as those that represent California’s best. Apparently, the California contingent led on the House side by Maxine Waters, Adam Schiff, and Nancy Pelosi and on the Senate side by Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, and Kamala Harris have never noticed the incongruity or really don’t believe all the B.S. that they spout when they are back home.

Those elected to D.C. are part of an exclusive club that is far more select than the so call one percent. These guys get drivers, armed security, special access, and are part of the aristocracy of power that makes our world go around.

Occasionally they make honest mistakes which in their world means when they are honest that it’s a mistake. Take our local jewel of colossal ignorance, Doris Matsui. For many years, Doris listed her residence as Maryland not California.

Sacramento Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui has repaid $2,800 in back taxes on her $1.5 million Maryland home after state officials said she received tax breaks for erroneously claiming it was her permanent residence.
Matsui, 65, indicated earlier this year that she wanted to withdraw her application for the tax breaks and that she would voluntarily repay the back taxes, said Robert Young, associate director of Maryland’s tax office.
The tax credit she sought is a homestead tax benefit for residents of Maryland. Young said Matsui had to answer a questionnaire that asked whether her property in Montgomery County, Md., was her “principal residence” and whether she was registered to vote in the state, among other things.

Matsui said she has paid in full; however, the state of Maryland disagrees.
Young said Tuesday that Matsui still owes thousands and that she will be assessed penalties and interest for not paying back taxes dating to 2005.
“What I can tell you is those monies have not been repaid,” he said.
Rob Hagedoorn, chief of Montgomery County’s Division of Treasury, said Matsui and her husband, Robert, the former congressman who died on Jan. 1, 2005, in all likelihood had received the tax break even before 2005.

Link: California Rep. Matsui repays $2,800 Maryland tax break

Matsui lied for many years, as did her husband before her, just to get a tax break. But I disagree about one thing, Matsui lied, not about her principal residence being in Maryland, but that her principal residence is in Sacramento. Truth is that she hasn’t lived in the area for decades. She is only occasionally in the area near election time. She doesn’t represent anyone in California, she is a Democrat first and a loyal vote for their leadership and thus insulated from the consequences of her stupidity—as long as she votes right.

Sorry, I can’t quantify what’s wrong with “The Swamp” but for those of us outside that bubble, its easy to see what’s wrong with it. I hope the examples above illustrate that fact.

2020 Trump Attack from Right Begins

Having survived the Mueller Report, President Trump is facing round two from within his own Party. Besides the unsolicited attacks from Mitt Romney, the CRA and its offspring, the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) appears to be piling on as well.

Below are portions of solicitations for the NFRA Convention that I have received in the last 48 hours.

Yesterday we are informed that Donald Trump is not our only choice for President. Former Governor Bill Weld is offering himself to take-out the Orange President.

Today we are told about the speaker list which includes Ted Cruz. No surprise there.

Trump has done more for the faith community since any President since Ronald Reaganand arguably more–but its not good enough for the NeverTrumper wing of the Republican Party. They seem to want Hillary Clinton in the White House until such time as God Himself rides in on a white horse to settle all accounts. (FYI This won’t happen in your lifetime so get over it.)

Its really pathetic that Trump is the most effective weapon in the Republican arsenal and many of them can’t wait to plunge a knife in his back the first chance that they get.

Update April 22nd

Pay to play option unveiled. Everyone going is automatically a delegate.

Berkeley Children Face Death at Easter

No, I’m not talking about the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ which we celebrate at Easter. Neither am I talking about those in the Philippines that reenact the crucifixion each Good Friday as a way of identifying with the suffering of Christ.

Annual reenactment of Crucifixion of Christ on Good Friday

Berkeley children apparently face the threat of bodily injury and death for collecting Easter eggs on public property. These risks include, blindness, heart attack, broken bones, paralysis, and death. Where else but California?

Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the paper trail: Hard-boiled lawyers made sure no kids could participate in the University of California-Berkeley’s campus Easter egg hunt on Sunday without their parents first signing a waiver.


Before the tykes were ushered toward the roped-off grass, parents stood in line for up to half an hour to hand in the official form for 25th Annual Easter Egg Hunt and Learning Festival. (God forbid the kids just have fun.) According to the waiver, which was obtained by Reason, the undersigned agreed that “Participation in The Activity carries with it certain risks that cannot be eliminated regardless of the care taken to avoid injuries.” These risks ranged from “1) minor injuries, such as scratches, bruises and sprains 2) major injuries such as eye injury or loss of sight, joint or back injuries, heart attacks, and concussions to 3) catastrophic injuries including paralysis and death.


Are they hunting Easter eggs or landmines?

Link: Parents at UC-Berkeley Easter Egg Hunt Must Sign Waivers Due to Risk of ‘Catastrophic Injuries and Death’

Dangers of eggs include more that cholesterol in California

Each child risked life and limb for the state mandated quota of five eggs.

Thanks to Capital Political Review for the news tip.

CHP’s Rainbow Rules

At your next traffic stop in California, prepare to meet the new rainbow police.

Yes, from the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to your local cop, the state legislature that can’t shoot straight has decreed that when the public interacts with law enforcement that men are no longer men and women are no longer women. Under the law, if a cop calls a man “sir” or a lady “ma’am”, they can be subject to discipline for violating the state’s laws on gender discrimination. The officer is required to ask what gender identity and pronouns are appropriate for them to address you before writing you the citation for speeding or jaywalking.

Once the traffic stop is completed, the officer is required to include the gender identity information in their report. This is an expansion of the laws already on the books to document and prevent racial profiling. These statistics are required to be given to the perpetual litigant of President Trump, Javier Becerra.

The below is from the California Attorney General’s website

Stop Data Collection Requirements and Final Regulations

In addition to requiring the collection and reporting of data regarding citizen complaints that allege racial or identity profiling, AB 953 requires all city and county local law enforcement agencies in California, as well as the California Highway Patrol and peace officers of California state and university educational institutions, to collect perceived demographic and other detailed data regarding pedestrian and traffic stops. Probation officers and officers in a custodial setting are excluded from this collection requirement.

The data to be collected includes, among other things, the perceived race or ethnicity, gender, and approximate age of the person stopped, as well as other data such as the reason for the stop, whether a search was conducted, and the results of any such search. Law enforcement agencies subject to this reporting requirement must report this data to the California Attorney General’s Office every year, with specific reporting deadlines set forth in the statute.

Link: AB 953: The Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015

Screen Capture from Attorney General’s website

So there you have it. California cops must check your gender identity so as not to offend you when writing you a ticket but they sure as hell better not check your residency or immigration status.