Report: Hundreds of Police Officers Belong to Racist Facebook Groups

[ancianita]

https://www.theroot.com/report-hundreds-of-police-officers-belong-to-racist-fa-1835542308?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=theroot_facebook&fbclid=IwAR019qBuqJGtyCkxODAWrCWbQSGhjX4kN2FhdBE2FA_XNS1P-EFZ_eQerZM

Reveal, a news website site run by the nonprofit Center for Investigative Journalism recently completed a monthslong investigation into police officers’ involvement with extremism on Facebook. The social media giant allows its users to create closed groups that share pictures, posts, and information among members who must gain permission from other members or administrators to see and post content within the group.

Before the Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed that Facebook allowed people to download users’ data, forcing the platform to change its policy, Reveal’s reporters quietly downloaded membership data from two categories of closed Facebook groups:

Extremist groups like “White Lives Matter,” “Ban the NAACP” and “Death to Islam Undercover”
Private groups that only allowed police officers, sheriff’s deputies, and/or corrections officers to join.

The journalists then wrote software that cross-referenced the two separate lists to see if any of the cops on their list also belonged to the cyber-hate groups. They expected that they would get a few hits.

They got more than 14,000.

Link to the original study: https://www.revealnews.org/article/inside-hate-groups-on-facebook-police-officers-trade-racist-memes-conspiracy-theories-and-islamophobia/

I've agreed with Bill Maher who has said, "You can't prove it. But you know it's true." Now, thanks to journalists investigations, we can prove it's true. Alone, these officers don't corrupt department practices. It's the silence of fellow polices that has enabled department corruption for so long.

[SoonerPride]

1. what an unshocking thing to learn

Defund the police.

Root out the racists and pull them out of their jobs. All of them.

[ancianita]

4. It was posted as proof, not any attempt to shock. Your point is duly noted.

Public access to department police complaint records is exactly the way to ferret all of them out.

[SoonerPride]

6. Facebook shouldn't have hate groups to begin with. Secret or not.

And yes I am very glad for the proof. Thank you for the link to the article.

It is just sad that it isn't shocking to me.

It turns my stomach.

[stillcool]

2. Cops and the Klan go hand in hand n/t

[chia]

3. 14,000 cops on their list who also belonged to cyber-hate groups. 14,000. That's mind-boggling

[ancianita]

5. Seriously. Even considering there are 800,000 active duty, it's still a dangerous number.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. 1.75% At The Extreme Is Telling

Extremism like that should 4th standard deviation territory, which range from 1 in 380, to 1 in 18,000.
1.75% is a HUGE number!

[ancianita]

10. Good point. It's still a dangerous number where undue force is so prevalent.

Those numbers define the policies of departments, no matter what they and their mayors say to the public.

I'll bet there can be zip code mapping of this data. Which would be interesting to see.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Absolutely!

That proportion should be nowhere within driving distance of 1.75%. That's a preposterously high %age of radical nut jobs.

[gopiscrap]

8. I have been saying this about cops forever

[ancianita]

9. Now there's recent proof that quashes the rw argument that lefties are just cop haters.

[Clash City Rocker]

12. 14,000 people would be almost 2% of all cops

There are about 800,000 police officers in the US. Some of them may be retired, but still...good lord. Just a few bad apples?