[FRIAM] Brennan Center report on racist cops

[Merle Lefkoff]

Excellent!

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 7:33 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in
> Law Enforcement
>
> https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidden-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-militancy-law
>
> Here's the SMMRY:
>
> https://smmry.com/https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidden-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-militancy-law#&SM_LENGTH=10
> > The process required to properly address a police officer's known
> identification with groups like the KKK or neo-Nazi skinheads, which have
> decades-long histories of violence, might seem arduous, but these are
> actually the easy cases.
> >
> > Far more frequently, law enforcement officers express bias in ways that
> are more difficult for police administrators to navigate.
> >
> > New white supremacist organizations and other far-right militant groups
> can often form extemporaneously, then splinter, change names, and employ
> disinformation campaigns to mask their illicit activities, which makes it
> difficult to determine whether an officer's affiliation with a particular
> group presents a conflict with law enforcement obligations or not.
> >
> > The St. Louis prosecutor placed all 22 of them on a list of police
> officers that her office would not call as witnesses, however.
> >
> > The San Francisco Police Department attempted to fire nine officers
> whose overtly racist, homophobic, and misogynistic text messages were
> uncovered in a 2015 FBI police corruption investigation.
> >
> > It is perhaps unsurprising then that in 2016 the Justice Department
> determined that San Francisco police officers stopped, searched, and
> arrested Black and Hispanic people at greater rates than white people even
> though they were less likely to be found carrying contraband.
> >
> > Previously published material linking the officer to a neo-Nazi group
> was reportedly not considered during the investigation, which determined
> that he had never "Expressed any racial bias on the job." 18 Samaha, "They
> Can't Fire You." The officer's patrol duties were not altered, leaving
> members of the community concerned.
> >
> > When a police department fails to address allegations of officer
> involvement in white supremacist activities in a timely and transparent
> manner, it can undermine the public's perceptions of an entire department,
> particularly when use of force issues arise.
> >
> > 20 Budnick, "The Badge and the Swastika." A second longtime friend of
> the officer later confirmed these allegations and contended that the
> officer had maintained his Nazi ideology while working at the Portland
> Police Bureau.
> >
> > 21 Budnick, "The Cop Who Liked Nazis." The officer dismantled the shrine
> and someone reportedly stashed the plaque in the Portland city attorney's
> office, where it remained undiscovered until after the brutality lawsuit
> had concluded.
>
>
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