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Do you have examples? Many media outlets have a policy of not including race unless there are n (usually 5-7) other physical descriptors.

• justin66 8y ago
  > Do you have examples? I do not possess any examples. The policy is described in a rather facile way here, however: https://www.cleveland.com/readers/index.ssf/2014/07/the_complex_issue_of_identifyi.html https://www.cleveland.com/readers/index.ssf/2014/07/the_comp... Possibly the policy has changed recently, I don't read cleveland.com much anymore. (I don't think much of the author of that article or the paper's senior editorial staff, for a lot of mostly unrelated reasons) > Many media outlets have a policy of not including race unless there are n (usually 5-7) other physical descriptors. That sounds about right, I guess. In addition to skin color I'd expect an eyewitness with a decent view of a crime to describe - although not necessarily to recall correctly! - build, height, gender, hair color, and clothing. Some of the other common identifying factors (voice, eye color, gait, scars and tattoos, etc.) seem like they might be a bit of stretch.