Hundreds of Current and Former Law Enforcement Officers Reportedly Found in Extremist Facebook Group

[dustyscamp]

Hundreds of current and former police officers and other law enforcement personnel are members of “Confederate, anti-Islam, misogynistic or anti-government militia groups” on Facebook, according to an investigation by the U.S. Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal News posted on Friday.
Reveal’s data is from prior to mid-2018, when Facebook removed a function that allowed downloading of membership lists from groups. Reveal wrote it created two separate lists of “members of extremist groups and members of police groups,” then compared them to find 14,000 cross-matches. Reveal further checked to see which of those accounts belonged to individuals with a verifiable history of employment in law enforcement (as opposed to people with personal ties to or an interest in the profession), finding “almost 400 users were indeed either currently employed as police officers, sheriffs or prison guards or had once worked in law enforcement.”


Reveal wrote that some 150 of the officers in question were involved with “violent anti-government groups”

https://gizmodo.com/hundreds-of-current-and-former-law-enforcement-officers-1835545223

[dustyscamp]

1. These people don't deserve to wear the badge

[octoberlib]

2. This isn't surprising since white supremacist groups have been infiltrating

police departments for decades.

[MasterofBiscuits]

4. The role of police departments is predicated

on white supremacy.

[safeinOhio]

3. About 95% of cops are crooked and they make

the other 5% look bad. I was married to one.

[RKP5637]

9. My sister was dating one of them sometime ago. His buddies were over and she

overhead them plotting a robbery of the local bank.

[frogmarch]

5. What a shocker.

Yeah, right.

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. No shit, huh?

Color me fucking surprised!

To paraphrase author Radley Balko from his book “The rise of the Warrior Cop”, ....

The fact that these are the kind of people attracted to this line of work is evidence they are precisely the types that should be excluded from it.

[Paladin]

6. Hey, they got to do something when they're not getting tattooed. (nt)

[beachbum bob]

7. we need to have a purge of all rightwing extremist from law enforcement AND military as they

represent the greatest threat of terrorism to America

[RKP5637]

10. And the ones tRump loves. He will want them as his foot soldiers as his wannabee dictatorship

rises ... he hopes.