Cops Across The US Have Been Exposed Posting Racist And Violent Things On Facebook. Here's The Proof

[Pilot1]

This is nothing new, this has been the behavior for 100yrs of years and the general public could careless as long as they are killing black folks.

In democrat run towns.. ohh look it’s a democrat lol

It's no difference in republican run towns, probably even worse.

Actually not,, all the riots caused by police brutality on blacks are all from Democrat run towns

If it is justified how can it be brutality? In republican run towns they are afraid to protest out of fear.

Which Large Cities are "republican run towns"?

Maybe Blacks should stop committing so much violent crime, and murder?

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

This article was published in collaboration with Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom focused on exposing institutional failures that obstruct justice and equality.

CHICAGO — When an armed, would-be robber backed out of a liquor store after the clerk pulled a gun on him, the surveillance video was posted on Facebook with a comment: “Should have shot him.”

Another commenter responded, “I would of pulled the trigger.”

These comments weren’t from your everyday Facebook users. They were the words of Philadelphia police officers.

Local law enforcement departments across the country have grappled with officers’ use of social media, often struggling to create and enforce policies that restrict offensive speech.

The North Charleston, South Carolina, police department fired an officer for posting a photo of himself wearing Confederate flag underwear, days after a white supremacist killed nine black worshippers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church just miles away. He later settled a wrongful termination suit.

The Chicago Police Department has tried unsuccessfully to fire an officer whose own commander complained of his “bigoted views.” A Facebook page called Chicago Code Blue attracted attention for inflammatory comments — such as “Every Thug Deserves a Slug” — after an officer was found guilty in the death of Laquan McDonald.

Police officers saying bigoted and racist things online has been an issue since the beginning of social media. The behavior was especially scrutinized after the Black Lives Matter movement blasted into the national conversation — and that scrutiny has continued even after that movement began grappling with its future. What was never really captured was the scope of problematic online posts from police officers.

But a new review of police behavior on Facebook documents the systemic nature of the conduct across several departments. The Plain View Project, launched by Philadelphia lawyer Emily Baker-White, examined the accounts of about 2,900 officers from eight departments across the country and an additional 600 retired officers from those same departments. She compiled posts that represented troubling conduct in a database that is replete with racist imagery and memes, and in some cases long, vitriolic exchanges involving multiple officers.

The project sought to compile posts, comments, and other public activity that could undermine public trust in the police and reinforce the views of critics, especially in minority communities, that the police are not there to protect them.

Facebook
Various screenshots compiled by Plain View.
Of the pages of officers whom the Plain View researchers could positively identify, about 1 in 5 of the current officers, and 2 in 5 of the retired officers, made public posts or comments that met that threshold — typically by displaying bias, applauding violence, scoffing at due process, or using dehumanizing language. The officers mocked Mexicans, women, and black people, celebrated the Confederate flag, and showed a man wearing a kaffiyeh scarf in the crosshairs of a gun.

“Just another savage that needs to be exterminated,” wrote Booker Smith Jr., a Dallas police sergeant, about a homicide at a Dollar General store. “Execute all involved,” he wrote separately about a group of teens who were accused of killing a 6-year-old. (One defendant pleaded guilty to aiding in the kidnapping. The alleged shooter and another defendant’s trials are scheduled for later this year.)

Reuben Carver III, a Phoenix officer, proclaimed in a stand-alone post, “Its a good day for a choke hold.”

And in St. Louis, Officer Thomas Mabrey shared a false news report that distorted an incident in which a woman police officer was shot responding to a call from a Moroccan man in Lebanon, Ohio. “F these muslem turd goat humpers,” he wrote, one of numerous anti-Muslim posts.

The officers named in this article did not respond to attempts to contact them or declined to comment.

When contacted about the findings of the Plain View Project, some departments requested more details about the flagged posts. The Phoenix Police Department said it had opened an inquiry into Carver’s post, and submitted it to the Professional Standards Bureau for review. The same officer also made posts threatening lawbreakers with sexual assault and celebrating violence against “hippies.”

A spokesperson with the St. Louis police department said they had forwarded the information regarding the post disparaging Muslims to their Internal Affairs division. A spokesperson with the Dallas Police Department said they had forwarded Smith’s details to superiors for review.

Still, experts in race and criminal justice were alarmed at the data.

“This blows up the myth of bad apples, by the sheer number of images and numbers of individuals who are implicated,” said Nikki Jones, an associate professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

David Kennedy, a criminology professor at John Jay College, said he considered the results “dire.”

"This is the kind of behavior that confirms the worst suspicions on the part of communities about the police," Kennedy said, adding that it “fuels and cements” the convictions of people in distressed communities have that the “police are not to be trusted.”

Still others said some posts need to be taken in the context of the job.

Peter Moskos, a sociologist and former Baltimore police officer, argued that among the police rank and file, such comments may just be expressions of officers who recognize the dangers of the profession.

“I think a lot of that language serves a purpose,” Moskos said. It implies, “We’re all in this together.”

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Theres nothing racist about killing dangerous criminals. Its simply a good policy in my opinion.

Do you even understand how our criminal justice system operates because it's not the job of the police to determine on the spot if someone deserves to live or die.

 

[Jitss617]

In democrat run towns.. ohh look it’s a democrat lol

It's no difference in republican run towns, probably even worse.

Actually not,, all the riots caused by police brutality on blacks are all from Democrat run towns

If it is justified how can it be brutality? In republican run towns they are afraid to protest out of fear.

Can’t protest something that doesn’t happen

That's the bullshit that is being told.

Prove me wrong

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

This article was published in collaboration with Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom focused on exposing institutional failures that obstruct justice and equality.

CHICAGO — When an armed, would-be robber backed out of a liquor store after the clerk pulled a gun on him, the surveillance video was posted on Facebook with a comment: “Should have shot him.”

Another commenter responded, “I would of pulled the trigger.”

These comments weren’t from your everyday Facebook users. They were the words of Philadelphia police officers.

Local law enforcement departments across the country have grappled with officers’ use of social media, often struggling to create and enforce policies that restrict offensive speech.

The North Charleston, South Carolina, police department fired an officer for posting a photo of himself wearing Confederate flag underwear, days after a white supremacist killed nine black worshippers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church just miles away. He later settled a wrongful termination suit.

The Chicago Police Department has tried unsuccessfully to fire an officer whose own commander complained of his “bigoted views.” A Facebook page called Chicago Code Blue attracted attention for inflammatory comments — such as “Every Thug Deserves a Slug” — after an officer was found guilty in the death of Laquan McDonald.

Police officers saying bigoted and racist things online has been an issue since the beginning of social media. The behavior was especially scrutinized after the Black Lives Matter movement blasted into the national conversation — and that scrutiny has continued even after that movement began grappling with its future. What was never really captured was the scope of problematic online posts from police officers.

But a new review of police behavior on Facebook documents the systemic nature of the conduct across several departments. The Plain View Project, launched by Philadelphia lawyer Emily Baker-White, examined the accounts of about 2,900 officers from eight departments across the country and an additional 600 retired officers from those same departments. She compiled posts that represented troubling conduct in a database that is replete with racist imagery and memes, and in some cases long, vitriolic exchanges involving multiple officers.

The project sought to compile posts, comments, and other public activity that could undermine public trust in the police and reinforce the views of critics, especially in minority communities, that the police are not there to protect them.

Facebook
Various screenshots compiled by Plain View.
Of the pages of officers whom the Plain View researchers could positively identify, about 1 in 5 of the current officers, and 2 in 5 of the retired officers, made public posts or comments that met that threshold — typically by displaying bias, applauding violence, scoffing at due process, or using dehumanizing language. The officers mocked Mexicans, women, and black people, celebrated the Confederate flag, and showed a man wearing a kaffiyeh scarf in the crosshairs of a gun.

“Just another savage that needs to be exterminated,” wrote Booker Smith Jr., a Dallas police sergeant, about a homicide at a Dollar General store. “Execute all involved,” he wrote separately about a group of teens who were accused of killing a 6-year-old. (One defendant pleaded guilty to aiding in the kidnapping. The alleged shooter and another defendant’s trials are scheduled for later this year.)

Reuben Carver III, a Phoenix officer, proclaimed in a stand-alone post, “Its a good day for a choke hold.”

And in St. Louis, Officer Thomas Mabrey shared a false news report that distorted an incident in which a woman police officer was shot responding to a call from a Moroccan man in Lebanon, Ohio. “F these muslem turd goat humpers,” he wrote, one of numerous anti-Muslim posts.

The officers named in this article did not respond to attempts to contact them or declined to comment.

When contacted about the findings of the Plain View Project, some departments requested more details about the flagged posts. The Phoenix Police Department said it had opened an inquiry into Carver’s post, and submitted it to the Professional Standards Bureau for review. The same officer also made posts threatening lawbreakers with sexual assault and celebrating violence against “hippies.”

A spokesperson with the St. Louis police department said they had forwarded the information regarding the post disparaging Muslims to their Internal Affairs division. A spokesperson with the Dallas Police Department said they had forwarded Smith’s details to superiors for review.

Still, experts in race and criminal justice were alarmed at the data.

“This blows up the myth of bad apples, by the sheer number of images and numbers of individuals who are implicated,” said Nikki Jones, an associate professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

David Kennedy, a criminology professor at John Jay College, said he considered the results “dire.”

"This is the kind of behavior that confirms the worst suspicions on the part of communities about the police," Kennedy said, adding that it “fuels and cements” the convictions of people in distressed communities have that the “police are not to be trusted.”

Still others said some posts need to be taken in the context of the job.

Peter Moskos, a sociologist and former Baltimore police officer, argued that among the police rank and file, such comments may just be expressions of officers who recognize the dangers of the profession.

“I think a lot of that language serves a purpose,” Moskos said. It implies, “We’re all in this together.”

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buzzfeed ....the eduMAcated news source for truth
try here for news on real bad cops Bad Cop, No Donut! ..
not some limp wisted fake outrage from a fake news source over memes and comedy
useful idiot retards

 

[theHawk]

This article was published in collaboration with Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom focused on exposing institutional failures that obstruct justice and equality.

CHICAGO — When an armed, would-be robber backed out of a liquor store after the clerk pulled a gun on him, the surveillance video was posted on Facebook with a comment: “Should have shot him.”

Another commenter responded, “I would of pulled the trigger.”

These comments weren’t from your everyday Facebook users. They were the words of Philadelphia police officers.

Local law enforcement departments across the country have grappled with officers’ use of social media, often struggling to create and enforce policies that restrict offensive speech.

The North Charleston, South Carolina, police department fired an officer for posting a photo of himself wearing Confederate flag underwear, days after a white supremacist killed nine black worshippers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church just miles away. He later settled a wrongful termination suit.

The Chicago Police Department has tried unsuccessfully to fire an officer whose own commander complained of his “bigoted views.” A Facebook page called Chicago Code Blue attracted attention for inflammatory comments — such as “Every Thug Deserves a Slug” — after an officer was found guilty in the death of Laquan McDonald.

Police officers saying bigoted and racist things online has been an issue since the beginning of social media. The behavior was especially scrutinized after the Black Lives Matter movement blasted into the national conversation — and that scrutiny has continued even after that movement began grappling with its future. What was never really captured was the scope of problematic online posts from police officers.

But a new review of police behavior on Facebook documents the systemic nature of the conduct across several departments. The Plain View Project, launched by Philadelphia lawyer Emily Baker-White, examined the accounts of about 2,900 officers from eight departments across the country and an additional 600 retired officers from those same departments. She compiled posts that represented troubling conduct in a database that is replete with racist imagery and memes, and in some cases long, vitriolic exchanges involving multiple officers.

The project sought to compile posts, comments, and other public activity that could undermine public trust in the police and reinforce the views of critics, especially in minority communities, that the police are not there to protect them.

Facebook
Various screenshots compiled by Plain View.
Of the pages of officers whom the Plain View researchers could positively identify, about 1 in 5 of the current officers, and 2 in 5 of the retired officers, made public posts or comments that met that threshold — typically by displaying bias, applauding violence, scoffing at due process, or using dehumanizing language. The officers mocked Mexicans, women, and black people, celebrated the Confederate flag, and showed a man wearing a kaffiyeh scarf in the crosshairs of a gun.

“Just another savage that needs to be exterminated,” wrote Booker Smith Jr., a Dallas police sergeant, about a homicide at a Dollar General store. “Execute all involved,” he wrote separately about a group of teens who were accused of killing a 6-year-old. (One defendant pleaded guilty to aiding in the kidnapping. The alleged shooter and another defendant’s trials are scheduled for later this year.)

Reuben Carver III, a Phoenix officer, proclaimed in a stand-alone post, “Its a good day for a choke hold.”

And in St. Louis, Officer Thomas Mabrey shared a false news report that distorted an incident in which a woman police officer was shot responding to a call from a Moroccan man in Lebanon, Ohio. “F these muslem turd goat humpers,” he wrote, one of numerous anti-Muslim posts.

The officers named in this article did not respond to attempts to contact them or declined to comment.

When contacted about the findings of the Plain View Project, some departments requested more details about the flagged posts. The Phoenix Police Department said it had opened an inquiry into Carver’s post, and submitted it to the Professional Standards Bureau for review. The same officer also made posts threatening lawbreakers with sexual assault and celebrating violence against “hippies.”

A spokesperson with the St. Louis police department said they had forwarded the information regarding the post disparaging Muslims to their Internal Affairs division. A spokesperson with the Dallas Police Department said they had forwarded Smith’s details to superiors for review.

Still, experts in race and criminal justice were alarmed at the data.

“This blows up the myth of bad apples, by the sheer number of images and numbers of individuals who are implicated,” said Nikki Jones, an associate professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

David Kennedy, a criminology professor at John Jay College, said he considered the results “dire.”

"This is the kind of behavior that confirms the worst suspicions on the part of communities about the police," Kennedy said, adding that it “fuels and cements” the convictions of people in distressed communities have that the “police are not to be trusted.”

Still others said some posts need to be taken in the context of the job.

Peter Moskos, a sociologist and former Baltimore police officer, argued that among the police rank and file, such comments may just be expressions of officers who recognize the dangers of the profession.

“I think a lot of that language serves a purpose,” Moskos said. It implies, “We’re all in this together.”

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How is saying an armed criminal should had been shot a racist statement? Race wasn’t even mentioned.

This is just more “thought police” mentality by the radical left. You assholes would welcome the “social media score” shit the commies in China are using.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

This article was published in collaboration with Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom focused on exposing institutional failures that obstruct justice and equality.

CHICAGO — When an armed, would-be robber backed out of a liquor store after the clerk pulled a gun on him, the surveillance video was posted on Facebook with a comment: “Should have shot him.”

Another commenter responded, “I would of pulled the trigger.”

These comments weren’t from your everyday Facebook users. They were the words of Philadelphia police officers.

Local law enforcement departments across the country have grappled with officers’ use of social media, often struggling to create and enforce policies that restrict offensive speech.

The North Charleston, South Carolina, police department fired an officer for posting a photo of himself wearing Confederate flag underwear, days after a white supremacist killed nine black worshippers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church just miles away. He later settled a wrongful termination suit.

The Chicago Police Department has tried unsuccessfully to fire an officer whose own commander complained of his “bigoted views.” A Facebook page called Chicago Code Blue attracted attention for inflammatory comments — such as “Every Thug Deserves a Slug” — after an officer was found guilty in the death of Laquan McDonald.

Police officers saying bigoted and racist things online has been an issue since the beginning of social media. The behavior was especially scrutinized after the Black Lives Matter movement blasted into the national conversation — and that scrutiny has continued even after that movement began grappling with its future. What was never really captured was the scope of problematic online posts from police officers.

But a new review of police behavior on Facebook documents the systemic nature of the conduct across several departments. The Plain View Project, launched by Philadelphia lawyer Emily Baker-White, examined the accounts of about 2,900 officers from eight departments across the country and an additional 600 retired officers from those same departments. She compiled posts that represented troubling conduct in a database that is replete with racist imagery and memes, and in some cases long, vitriolic exchanges involving multiple officers.

The project sought to compile posts, comments, and other public activity that could undermine public trust in the police and reinforce the views of critics, especially in minority communities, that the police are not there to protect them.

Facebook
Various screenshots compiled by Plain View.
Of the pages of officers whom the Plain View researchers could positively identify, about 1 in 5 of the current officers, and 2 in 5 of the retired officers, made public posts or comments that met that threshold — typically by displaying bias, applauding violence, scoffing at due process, or using dehumanizing language. The officers mocked Mexicans, women, and black people, celebrated the Confederate flag, and showed a man wearing a kaffiyeh scarf in the crosshairs of a gun.

“Just another savage that needs to be exterminated,” wrote Booker Smith Jr., a Dallas police sergeant, about a homicide at a Dollar General store. “Execute all involved,” he wrote separately about a group of teens who were accused of killing a 6-year-old. (One defendant pleaded guilty to aiding in the kidnapping. The alleged shooter and another defendant’s trials are scheduled for later this year.)

Reuben Carver III, a Phoenix officer, proclaimed in a stand-alone post, “Its a good day for a choke hold.”

And in St. Louis, Officer Thomas Mabrey shared a false news report that distorted an incident in which a woman police officer was shot responding to a call from a Moroccan man in Lebanon, Ohio. “F these muslem turd goat humpers,” he wrote, one of numerous anti-Muslim posts.

The officers named in this article did not respond to attempts to contact them or declined to comment.

When contacted about the findings of the Plain View Project, some departments requested more details about the flagged posts. The Phoenix Police Department said it had opened an inquiry into Carver’s post, and submitted it to the Professional Standards Bureau for review. The same officer also made posts threatening lawbreakers with sexual assault and celebrating violence against “hippies.”

A spokesperson with the St. Louis police department said they had forwarded the information regarding the post disparaging Muslims to their Internal Affairs division. A spokesperson with the Dallas Police Department said they had forwarded Smith’s details to superiors for review.

Still, experts in race and criminal justice were alarmed at the data.

“This blows up the myth of bad apples, by the sheer number of images and numbers of individuals who are implicated,” said Nikki Jones, an associate professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

David Kennedy, a criminology professor at John Jay College, said he considered the results “dire.”

"This is the kind of behavior that confirms the worst suspicions on the part of communities about the police," Kennedy said, adding that it “fuels and cements” the convictions of people in distressed communities have that the “police are not to be trusted.”

Still others said some posts need to be taken in the context of the job.

Peter Moskos, a sociologist and former Baltimore police officer, argued that among the police rank and file, such comments may just be expressions of officers who recognize the dangers of the profession.

“I think a lot of that language serves a purpose,” Moskos said. It implies, “We’re all in this together.”

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If a group of individuals (blacks) consistently behave badly, and people mock and ridicule them for it, is it the fault of those who mock them, or those who behave badly?

If you want "us" to respect you, change your behaviour individually and as a group.

There is so much wrong with your statement I don't even know where to start.

The people behaving badly are the racist, bigoted & misogynistic cops posting these comments on social media.They are not supposed to behave in the same manner as the criminals yet there they are showing their true colors. They are supposed to be professionals yet there they are behaving this way for the entire world to see all while everyone makes excuses for their unprofessional, racists, sexist and violent commentary.

As far as you are concerned, I don't know who "us" is but I can telll you this - you have always needed a your online KKK gang to confront us and in particular me. You are beyond deranged if you think I give a second thought to what you or any other racists thinks or if you seriously think anyone is going to be altering their behavior in an attempt to curry favor from the likes of a bunch of ignorant racist bigots.

So mock away all you want because it's also beyond pathetic that the ONLY thing that any of you have going for yourselves as evidenced by your postings is that you're white. Not a damn thing else, yet none of us mocks you because of it. We do pity you though lol

 

[fncceo]

There is a reason that most police departments severely restrict the use of social media by police members.

There can be strong disciplinary measures taken against police who bring their departments into disrepute on social media.

I know officers who have been fired for making offensive posts.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

This article was published in collaboration with Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom focused on exposing institutional failures that obstruct justice and equality.

CHICAGO — When an armed, would-be robber backed out of a liquor store after the clerk pulled a gun on him, the surveillance video was posted on Facebook with a comment: “Should have shot him.”

Another commenter responded, “I would of pulled the trigger.”

These comments weren’t from your everyday Facebook users. They were the words of Philadelphia police officers.

Local law enforcement departments across the country have grappled with officers’ use of social media, often struggling to create and enforce policies that restrict offensive speech.

The North Charleston, South Carolina, police department fired an officer for posting a photo of himself wearing Confederate flag underwear, days after a white supremacist killed nine black worshippers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church just miles away. He later settled a wrongful termination suit.

The Chicago Police Department has tried unsuccessfully to fire an officer whose own commander complained of his “bigoted views.” A Facebook page called Chicago Code Blue attracted attention for inflammatory comments — such as “Every Thug Deserves a Slug” — after an officer was found guilty in the death of Laquan McDonald.

Police officers saying bigoted and racist things online has been an issue since the beginning of social media. The behavior was especially scrutinized after the Black Lives Matter movement blasted into the national conversation — and that scrutiny has continued even after that movement began grappling with its future. What was never really captured was the scope of problematic online posts from police officers.

But a new review of police behavior on Facebook documents the systemic nature of the conduct across several departments. The Plain View Project, launched by Philadelphia lawyer Emily Baker-White, examined the accounts of about 2,900 officers from eight departments across the country and an additional 600 retired officers from those same departments. She compiled posts that represented troubling conduct in a database that is replete with racist imagery and memes, and in some cases long, vitriolic exchanges involving multiple officers.

The project sought to compile posts, comments, and other public activity that could undermine public trust in the police and reinforce the views of critics, especially in minority communities, that the police are not there to protect them.

Facebook
Various screenshots compiled by Plain View.
Of the pages of officers whom the Plain View researchers could positively identify, about 1 in 5 of the current officers, and 2 in 5 of the retired officers, made public posts or comments that met that threshold — typically by displaying bias, applauding violence, scoffing at due process, or using dehumanizing language. The officers mocked Mexicans, women, and black people, celebrated the Confederate flag, and showed a man wearing a kaffiyeh scarf in the crosshairs of a gun.

“Just another savage that needs to be exterminated,” wrote Booker Smith Jr., a Dallas police sergeant, about a homicide at a Dollar General store. “Execute all involved,” he wrote separately about a group of teens who were accused of killing a 6-year-old. (One defendant pleaded guilty to aiding in the kidnapping. The alleged shooter and another defendant’s trials are scheduled for later this year.)

Reuben Carver III, a Phoenix officer, proclaimed in a stand-alone post, “Its a good day for a choke hold.”

And in St. Louis, Officer Thomas Mabrey shared a false news report that distorted an incident in which a woman police officer was shot responding to a call from a Moroccan man in Lebanon, Ohio. “F these muslem turd goat humpers,” he wrote, one of numerous anti-Muslim posts.

The officers named in this article did not respond to attempts to contact them or declined to comment.

When contacted about the findings of the Plain View Project, some departments requested more details about the flagged posts. The Phoenix Police Department said it had opened an inquiry into Carver’s post, and submitted it to the Professional Standards Bureau for review. The same officer also made posts threatening lawbreakers with sexual assault and celebrating violence against “hippies.”

A spokesperson with the St. Louis police department said they had forwarded the information regarding the post disparaging Muslims to their Internal Affairs division. A spokesperson with the Dallas Police Department said they had forwarded Smith’s details to superiors for review.

Still, experts in race and criminal justice were alarmed at the data.

“This blows up the myth of bad apples, by the sheer number of images and numbers of individuals who are implicated,” said Nikki Jones, an associate professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

David Kennedy, a criminology professor at John Jay College, said he considered the results “dire.”

"This is the kind of behavior that confirms the worst suspicions on the part of communities about the police," Kennedy said, adding that it “fuels and cements” the convictions of people in distressed communities have that the “police are not to be trusted.”

Still others said some posts need to be taken in the context of the job.

Peter Moskos, a sociologist and former Baltimore police officer, argued that among the police rank and file, such comments may just be expressions of officers who recognize the dangers of the profession.

“I think a lot of that language serves a purpose,” Moskos said. It implies, “We’re all in this together.”

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How is saying an armed criminal should had been shot a racist statement? Race wasn’t even mentioned.

This is just more “thought police” mentality by the radical left. You assholes would welcome the “social media score” shit the commies in China are using.

Did you even bother to read the article? It states that the postings are described as "racist, violent, derogatory towards women, black people, muslims...etc.' No where does it state that they're all of those things all at the same time.

Furthermore if you honestly believe that the police have the right to shoot a citizen just because they're armed, you're demonstrating part of the problem that is being complained of in this article and is being illustrated by all of the stupid responses to it. It's not the job of the police to act as determine guilt and execute individuals on the spot if they are not under an imminent and direct threat.

And watch who you're calling an asshole, you're not talking to your mother who was obviously remiss in both teaching you any manners as well as ensuring you obtained reading comprehension skills.

It also noted that you're a member of the group who cannot formulate a counter-argument therefore can only "funny" a post.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

This is nothing new, this has been the behavior for 100yrs of years and the general public could careless as long as they are killing black folks.

The police kill more than twice as many white suspects per year, so why don't you care? oh, that's right, u r a racist

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

There is a reason that most police departments severely restrict the use of social media by police members.

There can be strong disciplinary measures taken against police who bring their departments into disrepute on social media.

I know officers who have been fired for making offensive posts.

When I saw this article I immediately thought of former Dallas PD officer Amber Guyger and how it was reported that she scrubbed her social media account after she "mistakenly" ended up in the wrong apartment (she thought it was hers) and shot & killed Botham Jean, but some of it was left behind that one of the news agencies got ahold of and it showed much of the same "us" versus "everyone else" mentality.

 

[fncceo]

There is a reason that most police departments severely restrict the use of social media by police members.

There can be strong disciplinary measures taken against police who bring their departments into disrepute on social media.

I know officers who have been fired for making offensive posts.

When I saw this article I immediately thought of former Dallas PD officer Amber Guyger and how it was reported that she scrubbed her social media account after she "mistakenly" ended up in the wrong apartment (she thought it was hers) and shot & killed Botham Jean, but some of it was left behind that one of the news agencies got ahold of and it showed much of the same "us" versus "everyone else" mentality.

There is a very much ... us versus them ... when it comes to police humor. Part of that comes from the fact that people with whom police interact 99% of the time belong to a very unique demographic.

That demographic isn't one of race, creed, or color, it's one of intelligence. While it remains easy to maintain empathy for the victims of crime. It is very difficult to empathize with those who wake up every morning and think up ways to make their lives and the lives of others even worse than it already is.

When it comes to those people who, thankfully, make up a very small percentage of the general population, a policeman can no more identify with them than an anthropologist can identify with the subjects of his research. At some point, all you can do is observe, reflect, classify, and document.

 

[JoeB131]

Dark humor ... is a common coping mechanism for most first responders.

That being said, there are nearly a million sworn LEOs in America. How many have posted to these things on FaceBook?

Again, 99% are great guys..

The problem is the 1% who aren't... and how difficult it is to fire them.

 

[fncceo]

Dark humor ... is a common coping mechanism for most first responders.

That being said, there are nearly a million sworn LEOs in America. How many have posted to these things on FaceBook?

Again, 99% are great guys..

The problem is the 1% who aren't... and how difficult it is to fire them.

It's really not all that difficult. Cops get fired all the time. One of the biggest impediment to firing a police officer for cause is the press. When a case becomes high profile, the department will have to take extra care to make sure they cannot be accused of depriving a police member of due process and deliver a trial by media ... a charge that leave them open to damages in a civil suit.

The more people clamor for blood, the less likely they are to get it.

 

[JoeB131]

It's really not all that difficult. Cops get fired all the time. One of the biggest impediment to firing a police officer for cause is the press. When a case becomes high profile, the department will have to take extra care to make sure they cannot be accused of depriving a police member of due process and deliver a trial by media ... a charge that leave them open to damages in a civil suit.

The more people clamor for blood, the less likely they are to get it.

Quite the contrary.... The cop who shot LaQuan McDonald 16 times had 20 complaints of civilian abuse on his record, including an incident where the city had to pay out $375,000 for a man who got his shoulder dislocated.

But the FOP made it impossible to fire him, until he shot that kid. And then the FOP spent millions of dollars defending him in court.

Every time we have a high-profile shooting, they usually find out that the cop in question had a lot of questionable stuff in his record.

When the DOJ investigated police in Chicago after the McDonald Shooting they found out that 137 officers (Less than 1% of the force) were responsible for 50% of the civilian complaints for excessive force. Yet they all still have jobs.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

This article was published in collaboration with Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom focused on exposing institutional failures that obstruct justice and equality.

CHICAGO — When an armed, would-be robber backed out of a liquor store after the clerk pulled a gun on him, the surveillance video was posted on Facebook with a comment: “Should have shot him.”

Another commenter responded, “I would of pulled the trigger.”

These comments weren’t from your everyday Facebook users. They were the words of Philadelphia police officers.

Local law enforcement departments across the country have grappled with officers’ use of social media, often struggling to create and enforce policies that restrict offensive speech.

The North Charleston, South Carolina, police department fired an officer for posting a photo of himself wearing Confederate flag underwear, days after a white supremacist killed nine black worshippers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church just miles away. He later settled a wrongful termination suit.

The Chicago Police Department has tried unsuccessfully to fire an officer whose own commander complained of his “bigoted views.” A Facebook page called Chicago Code Blue attracted attention for inflammatory comments — such as “Every Thug Deserves a Slug” — after an officer was found guilty in the death of Laquan McDonald.

Police officers saying bigoted and racist things online has been an issue since the beginning of social media. The behavior was especially scrutinized after the Black Lives Matter movement blasted into the national conversation — and that scrutiny has continued even after that movement began grappling with its future. What was never really captured was the scope of problematic online posts from police officers.

But a new review of police behavior on Facebook documents the systemic nature of the conduct across several departments. The Plain View Project, launched by Philadelphia lawyer Emily Baker-White, examined the accounts of about 2,900 officers from eight departments across the country and an additional 600 retired officers from those same departments. She compiled posts that represented troubling conduct in a database that is replete with racist imagery and memes, and in some cases long, vitriolic exchanges involving multiple officers.

The project sought to compile posts, comments, and other public activity that could undermine public trust in the police and reinforce the views of critics, especially in minority communities, that the police are not there to protect them.

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Various screenshots compiled by Plain View.
Of the pages of officers whom the Plain View researchers could positively identify, about 1 in 5 of the current officers, and 2 in 5 of the retired officers, made public posts or comments that met that threshold — typically by displaying bias, applauding violence, scoffing at due process, or using dehumanizing language. The officers mocked Mexicans, women, and black people, celebrated the Confederate flag, and showed a man wearing a kaffiyeh scarf in the crosshairs of a gun.

“Just another savage that needs to be exterminated,” wrote Booker Smith Jr., a Dallas police sergeant, about a homicide at a Dollar General store. “Execute all involved,” he wrote separately about a group of teens who were accused of killing a 6-year-old. (One defendant pleaded guilty to aiding in the kidnapping. The alleged shooter and another defendant’s trials are scheduled for later this year.)

Reuben Carver III, a Phoenix officer, proclaimed in a stand-alone post, “Its a good day for a choke hold.”

And in St. Louis, Officer Thomas Mabrey shared a false news report that distorted an incident in which a woman police officer was shot responding to a call from a Moroccan man in Lebanon, Ohio. “F these muslem turd goat humpers,” he wrote, one of numerous anti-Muslim posts.

The officers named in this article did not respond to attempts to contact them or declined to comment.

When contacted about the findings of the Plain View Project, some departments requested more details about the flagged posts. The Phoenix Police Department said it had opened an inquiry into Carver’s post, and submitted it to the Professional Standards Bureau for review. The same officer also made posts threatening lawbreakers with sexual assault and celebrating violence against “hippies.”

A spokesperson with the St. Louis police department said they had forwarded the information regarding the post disparaging Muslims to their Internal Affairs division. A spokesperson with the Dallas Police Department said they had forwarded Smith’s details to superiors for review.

Still, experts in race and criminal justice were alarmed at the data.

“This blows up the myth of bad apples, by the sheer number of images and numbers of individuals who are implicated,” said Nikki Jones, an associate professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

David Kennedy, a criminology professor at John Jay College, said he considered the results “dire.”

"This is the kind of behavior that confirms the worst suspicions on the part of communities about the police," Kennedy said, adding that it “fuels and cements” the convictions of people in distressed communities have that the “police are not to be trusted.”

Still others said some posts need to be taken in the context of the job.

Peter Moskos, a sociologist and former Baltimore police officer, argued that among the police rank and file, such comments may just be expressions of officers who recognize the dangers of the profession.

“I think a lot of that language serves a purpose,” Moskos said. It implies, “We’re all in this together.”

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...ok-racist-violent-posts-comments-philadelphia​

If a group of individuals (blacks) consistently behave badly, and people mock and ridicule them for it, is it the fault of those who mock them, or those who behave badly?

If you want "us" to respect you, change your behaviour individually and as a group.

There is so much wrong with your statement I don't even know where to start.

The people behaving badly are the racist, bigoted & misogynistic cops posting these comments on social media.They are not supposed to behave in the same manner as the criminals yet there they are showing their true colors. They are supposed to be professionals yet there they are behaving this way for the entire world to see all while everyone makes excuses for their unprofessional, racists, sexist and violent commentary.

As far as you are concerned, I don't know who "us" is but I can telll you this - you have always needed a your online KKK gang to confront us and in particular me. You are beyond deranged if you think I give a second thought to what you or any other racists thinks or if you seriously think anyone is going to be altering their behavior in an attempt to curry favor from the likes of a bunch of ignorant racist bigots.

So mock away all you want because it's also beyond pathetic that the ONLY thing that any of you have going for yourselves as evidenced by your postings is that you're white. Not a damn thing else, yet none of us mocks you because of it. We do pity you though lol

The discovery of these expressed opinions does not mean anyone behaved badly.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

There is a reason that most police departments severely restrict the use of social media by police members.

There can be strong disciplinary measures taken against police who bring their departments into disrepute on social media.

I know officers who have been fired for making offensive posts.

When I saw this article I immediately thought of former Dallas PD officer Amber Guyger and how it was reported that she scrubbed her social media account after she "mistakenly" ended up in the wrong apartment (she thought it was hers) and shot & killed Botham Jean, but some of it was left behind that one of the news agencies got ahold of and it showed much of the same "us" versus "everyone else" mentality.

There is a very much ... us versus them ... when it comes to police humor. Part of that comes from the fact that people with whom police interact 99% of the time belong to a very unique demographic.

That demographic isn't one of race, creed, or color, it's one of intelligence. While it remains easy to maintain empathy for the victims of crime. It is very difficult to empathize with those who wake up every morning and think up ways to make their lives and the lives of others even worse than it already is.

When it comes to those people who, thankfully, make up a very small percentage of the general population, a policeman can no more identify with them than an anthropologist can identify with the subjects of his research. At some point, all you can do is observe, reflect, classify, and document.

"All trespassers will be shot. Any survivors will be shot again". Do you find this statement humorous?

 

[fncceo]

There is a reason that most police departments severely restrict the use of social media by police members.

There can be strong disciplinary measures taken against police who bring their departments into disrepute on social media.

I know officers who have been fired for making offensive posts.

When I saw this article I immediately thought of former Dallas PD officer Amber Guyger and how it was reported that she scrubbed her social media account after she "mistakenly" ended up in the wrong apartment (she thought it was hers) and shot & killed Botham Jean, but some of it was left behind that one of the news agencies got ahold of and it showed much of the same "us" versus "everyone else" mentality.

There is a very much ... us versus them ... when it comes to police humor. Part of that comes from the fact that people with whom police interact 99% of the time belong to a very unique demographic.

That demographic isn't one of race, creed, or color, it's one of intelligence. While it remains easy to maintain empathy for the victims of crime. It is very difficult to empathize with those who wake up every morning and think up ways to make their lives and the lives of others even worse than it already is.

When it comes to those people who, thankfully, make up a very small percentage of the general population, a policeman can no more identify with them than an anthropologist can identify with the subjects of his research. At some point, all you can do is observe, reflect, classify, and document.

"All trespassers will be shot. Any survivors will be shot again". Do you find this statement humorous?

Actually, yeah, I do ... it's meant in jest.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

The discovery of these expressed opinions does not mean anyone behaved badly.

What about non-compliance? When law enforcement agencies accept federal grant money they are required to comply with the stipulations attached to that dispersement

The Office for Civil Rights at the Office of Justice Programs ensures that recipients of financial assistance from OJP, as well as the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services and the Office on Violence Against Women, comply with federal laws that prohibit discrimination in employment and the delivery of services or benefits based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, and disability. See Civil Rights Requirements for more information.

Recipients of financial assistance from OVW are also prohibited from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. For more information, see Nondiscrimination Grant Condition in the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013.

Employees, beneficiaries and applicants for employment or services of any of the above who believe that they have experienced unlawful discrimination may file a complaint.

The Investigative Findings page captures information for a selection of OCR investigations

Office for Civil Rights at the Office of Justice Programs (OJP)​

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

There is a reason that most police departments severely restrict the use of social media by police members.

There can be strong disciplinary measures taken against police who bring their departments into disrepute on social media.

I know officers who have been fired for making offensive posts.

When I saw this article I immediately thought of former Dallas PD officer Amber Guyger and how it was reported that she scrubbed her social media account after she "mistakenly" ended up in the wrong apartment (she thought it was hers) and shot & killed Botham Jean, but some of it was left behind that one of the news agencies got ahold of and it showed much of the same "us" versus "everyone else" mentality.

There is a very much ... us versus them ... when it comes to police humor. Part of that comes from the fact that people with whom police interact 99% of the time belong to a very unique demographic.

That demographic isn't one of race, creed, or color, it's one of intelligence. While it remains easy to maintain empathy for the victims of crime. It is very difficult to empathize with those who wake up every morning and think up ways to make their lives and the lives of others even worse than it already is.

When it comes to those people who, thankfully, make up a very small percentage of the general population, a policeman can no more identify with them than an anthropologist can identify with the subjects of his research. At some point, all you can do is observe, reflect, classify, and document.

"All trespassers will be shot. Any survivors will be shot again". Do you find this statement humorous?

Actually, yeah, I do ... it's meant in jest.

I find it humerous as well, but not in jest.

The reason I asked you that question is because i find it hard to believe that these postings, or even the majority of them can be chalked up to humor, at least not on Facebook. If it were an internal ListServ where the audience was other LEOs then yeah I could believe that, maybe but not on a public internet message board where anyone has access to. No one does that unless they want people to know and see what they think about a particular subject, similar to how we post here on US Message Board.

There are some cops that are just outright scary, some who are nice, some who behave professionally if not friendly but they all can fuck you up if they so choose, legally or otherwise and then leave you to fight your way back to justice. We know that there are cops like this, we know that they say and write things that we can't readily see that are derogatory and harmful to us. Anyone that denies these things is not being honest, however the vitriol directed towards those of us trying to root out the corruption is just as bad as the corrupt cops. I know what they've said because I've utilized our public records act and subpoenas to obtain audio, documents, 911 calls, detective reports, etc in regards to certain things that have occurred. I know you're a police officer and that you've been posting here as long as I've been here and often wondered what your rank was because you've always seemed not too concerned about being circumspect in your comments. I have enjoyed being able to discuss certain topics with a law enforcement officer, but you're not one of the ones who starts twitching whenever the subject turns to bad or corrupt cops, with good reason I'd surmise.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

This is nothing new, this has been the behavior for 100yrs of years and the general public could careless as long as they are killing black folks.

The police kill more than twice as many white suspects per year, so why don't you care? oh, that's right, u r a racist

They kill more unarmed blacks than they do whites.