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In October of 2006, the FBI released an intelligence assessment titled, White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement. Though the documentculled from FBI investigations and open sourceswas heavily redacted, it reached a number of disturbing conclusions.
The assessment revealed that white supremacists have historically engaged in strategic efforts to infiltrate and recruit from law enforcement communities; that many of these white-supremacist infiltrators are known as ghost skins who avoid overt displays of their beliefs to blend in; and that the KKK have longstanding ties to local law enforcement. These firm ties between white supremacists and law enforcement persist to this day. Last year, Reveal published an investigative series exposing the polices proclivity for Facebook hate groups and racist memes, and in late August, former FBI agent Michael German compiled an exhaustive report detailing the prevalence of racism, white supremacy, and far-right militancy in law enforcement and the federal governments non-existent response to it.
Links between white supremacists and law enforcement have been thrown into sharper relief in recent months following the killing of George Floyd, and numerous instances of curiously chummy behavior between police and far-right militiamen during the ensuing protests for Black lives.
Frank Meeink, once one of the most prominent neo-Nazis in the U.S.and the inspiration for the character Derek Vinyard, played by Edward Norton in the 1998 film American History Xthinks he knows why.
I know that there are neo-Nazis who I used to run with who are now cops, he tells The Daily Beast. And thats just in my crew. Imagine how many neo-Nazis and white nationalists have been becoming cops? Three of the people in my crew alone became cops.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-was-the-neo-nazi-who-inspired-american-history-x-his-nazi-pals-are-now-cops?
tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)For the Blue/All Lives Matter among us.
Midnight Writer
(21,819 posts)I think police work attracts people with authoritarian personalities, and racists are a part of that.
DSandra
(999 posts)And some fields are good at attracting bad people, the best example being the Boy Scouts and pedophiles.
Hiring managers have an important job in making sure the wrong types of people dont get into their organization. Failure in that part can be disastrous.
Midnight Writer
(21,819 posts)creating a self perpetuating culture.
DSandra
(999 posts)Blue Owl
(50,529 posts)tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)Why so silent?