Police dump racist coding

A SUBURBAN New York police department said it would be scrapping codes in an internal spreadsheet that denoted Asian personnel with the letter “Y”, apparently for “yellow”. The Nassau County Police Department said it was immediately changing those notations and the designation the department had used for Native Americans or American Indians: “I”, for Indian.

The New York Civil Liberties Union unearthed the notations through public records requests for policies and data from various police departments around the state.