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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: rp
Date: March 19, 2021, 5:30 pm
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He has been exposed for once running a blog detailing his trip
to Japan that talked about how "American" men are essentially
"John Wayne" for Japanese women, and how easy it was to bang
them.
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 19, 2021, 5:36 pm
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Wow!!! :D
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 20, 2021, 10:12 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFvVBMMwj0s
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 22, 2021, 10:56 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/cops-posts-private-facebook-group-115318163.html
--- Quote ---
> Transphobia, hostility about protesters in private cop group
> ...
> over the group’s almost four-year existence, a few dozen
members became more vocal with posts that shifted toward
pro-Donald Trump memes and harsh criticism of anyone perceived
to support so-called “demoncrats,” Black Lives Matter or
coronavirus safety measures.
> ...
> The Associated Press was able to view posts and comments from
the group, which has 2,200 members, including about a dozen
current and former police chiefs -- from mainly Allegheny County
and some surrounding areas stretching into Ohio -- and at least
one judge and one councilman. After the AP began asking about
posts last week, the group appeared to have been deleted or
suspended from view.
> ...
> Dozens of group members, many retired or no longer in law
enforcement, fueled days of transphobic posts about former
Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine for her role in
statewide social-distancing mandates to stop the spread of
COVID-19. Levine, who is transgender, has since been tapped by
Biden to be assistant health secretary.
>
> The posts referred to Levine as “he” or “it” and called her a
“freak” and other names. “Someone needs to shoot this thing!!”
one retired officer wrote.
> ...
> According to the group’s introduction, “What goes on in here,
STAYS IN HERE. We can have discussions, opinions, thoughts, and
even rants, but there is to be NO SHARING outside of this page
of anything posted here!”
>
> The Pittsburgh-area officers weren’t alone in posting
sometimes hostile and disparaging content to social media. In
2019, the Plain View Project released a database of similar
posts from officers in eight departments around the country.
>
> The project, founded by a group of Philadelphia attorneys,
examined the Facebook accounts of 2,900 active and 600 retired
officers, finding thousands of posts that were racist, sexist,
advocated for police brutality or were similarly problematic.
The group made the database public, saying the posts eroded the
public’s trust.
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 23, 2021, 10:32 pm
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Someone willing to state the obvious:
HTML https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/identity-crisis-white-supremacist-racist-american-cops-must-be-removed-experts-say-it-will-take-resolve/ar-BB1eT90J
--- Quote ---
> “You cannot train away white supremacy,” Taylor said as she
pauses between two careers, between a past in a troubled
department and a future protecting people’s civil rights as an
attorney.
>
> “You have to fire it. You have to remove it.”
--- End Quote ---
I agree you cannot train away white supremacy:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/superiority-cannot-be-taught/
I agree you have to fire it. But by fire I mean:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_burning
or at least:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_by_firing_squad
Merely firing them from their jobs will leave them to continue
their behaviour elsewhere. Removal is not removal if their lives
are not removed.
With that said, the article does have some other points:
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> Vida Johnson knows a simple approach to remedy the
disproportionate representation of white men in policing.
>
> Hire females and people of color in large numbers.
>
> Johnson, an associate law professor at Georgetown University
who has studied white supremacist infiltration of police, said
just focusing on women and diversity would go a long way toward
building better police forces.
>
> Only 13 percent of police are women and only 3 percent of
police chiefs are female, she said.
>
> “Women are less likely to hold extreme political views, and
women are less likely to use force and more likely to
de-escalate a situation.”
>
> She advocates for a federal police licensing requirement. It
exists for other professions entrusted with our safety, like
pilots. Why not for police?
>
> Johnson would like to see American police focus more on
far-right domestic terror threats and less on street crime,
which disproportionately targets people of color for often minor
events. Incidents like in February when multiple Rochester, New
York, police cruisers converged on the scene of an alleged
drugstore theft and a Black woman was taken down and
pepper-sprayed while her 3-year-old looked on. She was later
charged with trespassing.
>
> Finally, Johnson said, check who is doing your recruiting.
>
> “White nationalists are being hired by other white
nationalists,” Johnson said. “At least two at the U.S. Capitol
invasion were police recruiters. It isn’t hard to get those
police jobs as a racist if you have someone sympathetic to those
views.”
--- End Quote ---
This is how screwed up the current hiring practice is:
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> Legacies: A tale of two cops
>
> It made sense: his dad was a cop so he would be a cop, too.
Josh Hastings applied to the Little Rock, Arkansas, police
department knowing what would come with the role: a gun, a
badge, a paycheck and respect. It was the young man’s legacy,
after all.
>
> While submitting for a required polygraph exam, Hastings
revealed his connection to another legacy. He’d attended a Ku
Klux Klan rally three years earlier while in high school. His
friend’s grandfather was a member, the 21-year-old applicant
said in what appeared to be a comment on his application
contradicting his original response that he’d never attended a
meeting of a racist group.
>
> Lt. Johnny Gilbert, a Black officer who’d seen Black men’s
applications denied for having any connection with local gangs,
wrote a memo advising against hiring Hastings.
>
> Gilbert questioned the applicant’s judgment and maturity. “How
does a person go about attending a Ku Klux Klan meeting?” he
wrote. “Who are his friends and associates? Why would he place
himself in such a bad position based on his upbringing as the
son of a police officer?”
>
> Little Rock Police Department hired him in March 2007.
>
> Five years later, after over a dozen red flags for his
behavior that went undisciplined by the force, Hastings fired
into a Honda Civic that investigators later determined was
either stopped or backing away from him, killing a Black teen.
Fifteen-year-old Bobby Joe Moore III died at the scene.
>
> Hastings was arrested and charged with manslaughter, although
the charge would be dropped when juries were twice unable to
arrive at a verdict.
>
> Legacies upon legacies. White officers in numbers
disproportionate to the color of the communities they serve,
shooting Black citizens and walking away.
>
> There are officers like Josh Hastings in law enforcement
agencies across the nation, both in towns in the old South and
in industrial Northeastern cities, in the wealthy suburbs of
Texas and in the diverse Pacific Ocean communities of
California.
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 24, 2021, 10:17 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/kentucky-republican-defends-controversial-bill-that-outlaws-insulting-police-205756830.html
Meanwhile:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pO0MsXMlGw
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 24, 2021, 11:24 pm
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3 Polk County deputies arrested for evidence tampering
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> The Polk County Sheriff's Office says three deputies are
facing charges for evidence tampering in relation to a December
arrest.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzJ4GoXk6qw
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 30, 2021, 11:38 pm
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Chauvin Trial Update: "I Witnessed A Murder"
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> Derek Chauvin's lawyer had a bit of a problem with an MMA
fighter's witness testimony, and it was incredibly gross.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2t_3XotAjg
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 2, 2021, 11:44 pm
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HTML https://twitter.com/AttorneyCrump/status/1356784689491623936<br
/>(video at link)
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> 19yo Christian Hall needed HELP. On 12/30, he experienced a
mental health crisis and @PAStatePolice were called to assist.
Instead of helping Christian, deputies fatally shot him with his
hands raised.
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Kyle Rittenhouse, on the other hand.....
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Re: Police rightist bias
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 3, 2021, 10:36 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THBFLWxItg0
There are surely thousands more that they don't know about yet.
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