Guardian: White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says

[friendly_iconoclast]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-police-report

A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and racist militant activities in more than a dozen states

White supremacist groups have infiltrated US law enforcement agencies in every region of the country over the last two decades, according to a new report about the ties between police and far-right vigilante groups.

In a timely new analysis, Michael German, a former FBI special agent who has written extensively on the ways that US law enforcement have failed to respond to far-right domestic terror threats, concludes that US law enforcement officials have been tied to racist militant activities in more than a dozen states since 2000, and hundreds of police officers have been caught posting racist and bigoted social media content.

The report notes that over the years, police links to militias and white supremacist groups have been uncovered in states including Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.

Police in Sacramento, California, in 2018 worked with neo-Nazis to pursue charges against anti-racist activists, including some who had been stabbed, according to records...

Link to the report in the article:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidden-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-militancy-law

[bullimiami]

1. every day there is more evidence that policing in this country has gone rotten.

I guess its been this way for a long time.
Shame on all of us.

[Kablooie]

2. My hope for the future of our country is dying a little more every day.

I hear people being outraged but it's just words while the right and Trump are taking action.
Words against actions will not win but it seems it's the most we really have.

[wcast]

3. I remember under Obama this was brought to light.

Right wingers lost their minds and the issue disappeared.

[virgogal]

4. I don't recall any discussions of it here.

[wcast]

5. Here is an article from 4 years ago.

It shows how the fbi knew this was a problem since 2006.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement

Another article about wingers losing their minds.

https://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/17/wing-loses-dojs-announced-domestic-terrorism-counsel.html

[virgogal]

6. Thank you.

[appalachiablue]

7. Thanks for these impt. article links.