Philadelphia Police Department to fire 13 officers over offensive Facebook posts

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer/Inquirer.com



Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross announced Thursday that 13 officers would be fired for making racist or offensive Facebook posts, an unprecedented wave of terminations resulting from a scandal that has attracted national attention.

Speaking alongside Mayor Jim Kenney at a news conference at Police Headquarters, Ross said that in addition to the firings — the largest number of officers dismissed at one time in recent city history — another 56 cops would face disciplinary outcomes ranging from a reprimand to a 30-day unpaid suspension.

“I continue to be very angered and disappointed by these posts, many of which, in my view, violate the basic tenets of human decency,” Ross said, adding that the department must “move past this ridiculous hate that just consumes this country and has done so for centuries.”

The disciplinary outcomes represented the most significant response yet to last month’s publication of the Plain View Project, a database compiled by advocates that catalogs Facebook posts allegedly made by officers in Philadelphia and seven other jurisdictions across the country.

Read more: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-officer-firings-facebook-posts-database-20190718.html

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Here is a link to the website of the group that had been gathering this data on Philly and other municipalities - https://www.plainviewproject.org/

This is the type of thing that POC have to deal with day in and day out - whether always being under suspicion and assumed guilty within the criminal justice system or not getting the tax payer-funded services provided by that system when needed. It is due to what we see happening very publicly now, further stoked by the very top of this country's power structure.

[LiberalFighter]

1. Good!

Their FOP need to send a message to their members too. That it is not acceptable behavior.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. Ha! The FOP will probably take this to court and spend millions to get their jobs back.

[LiberalFighter]

9. Maybe they will go broke doing so.

[BlueIdaho]

2. Good Start...

Now fire all those in command positions and then resign.

Citizens deserve less than of a clean slate.

[richsonpoordad]

3. The police swamps all over the country should be drained.

Hope the drainage has begun.

[marble falls]

4. At least one swamp is getting drained a bit.

[RobinA]

11. You Think?

I tend to think that this sort of thing makes the swamp even worse. I'm not saying I have the answer, but people I know who think like these cops just get MORE incensed when something like this happens. To them it proves they are right.

[onetexan]

5. You did a great thing to protect Philadelphia residents Commissioner Ross

and you've made your city a safer place to live. It is after all, the city of brotherly love. Thank you for not tolerating such hateful behavior by men who should be protecting and promoting this idea of brotherly love.

[riversedge]

6. Anyone know what happened to those Sounthern Border Patrol agents who had

a nasty demeaning website-talking about #asylumseekers. I did not hear any follow up.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Here is some recent info on a private Facebook group that some agents participated in

https://www.propublica.org/article/revelations-about-a-secret-facebook-group-spawn-investigation-of-70-current-and-former-border-patrol-employees#

[Nitram]

10. We're fighting back.

We are beginning to accept the fact that if we want American values to survive, we have to call out racism, misogyny - bigotry of any kind - whenever it raises its ugly head.