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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 14 years ago. Has anything changed?
In the 2006 bulletin, the FBI detailed the threat of white nationalists and skinheads infiltrating police in order to disrupt investigations against fellow members and recruit other supremacists. The bulletin was released during a period of scandal for many law enforcement agencies throughout the country, including a neo-Nazi gang formed by members of the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department who harassed black and Latino communities. Similar investigations revealed officers and entire agencies with hate group ties in Illinois, Ohio and Texas.
Much of the bulletin has been redacted, but in it, the FBI identified white supremacists in law enforcement as a concern, because of their access to both restricted areas vulnerable to sabotage and elected officials or people who could be seen as potential targets for violence. The memo also warned of ghost skins, hate group members who dont overtly display their beliefs in order to blend into society and covertly advance white supremacist causes.
At least one white supremacist group has reportedly encouraged ghost skins to seek positions in law enforcement for the capability of alerting skinhead crews of pending investigative action against them, the report read.
Problems with white supremacists in law enforcement have surfaced since that report. In 2014, two Florida officers including a deputy police chief were fired after an FBI informant outed them as members of the Ku Klux Klan. It marked the second time within five years that the agency uncovered an officers membership in the KKK. Several agencies nationwide have also launched investigations into personnel who may not be formal hate group members, but face allegations of race-based misconduct.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)... as possible, what could be their need to escalate in damn near every video.
louis-t
(23,292 posts)insisted be quashed? Republicans were so outraged, they insisted on an apology?
FlyingPiggy
(3,384 posts)About white supremacists infiltrating law enforcement. And nothing got done. I just want to know what is being done about systemic racism in law enforcement? Is the DOJ anything?
SharonAnn
(13,772 posts)sop
(10,167 posts)FlyingPiggy
(3,384 posts)And how they have shadow plants there just to inform them if there is an investigation? I read an article about that and it is frightening!
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Top Oath Keeper Says Active-Duty Cops Are Training Militia Members for Civil War
https://www.thedailybeast.com/oath-keeper-jim-arroyo-says-active-duty-cops-are-training-militia-members-for-civil-war
llashram
(6,265 posts)many more LEO's are now covertly and actively a part of the white supremacy group(s)...
FlyingPiggy
(3,384 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Top Oath Keeper Says Active-Duty Cops Are Training Militia Members for Civil War
https://www.thedailybeast.com/oath-keeper-jim-arroyo-says-active-duty-cops-are-training-militia-members-for-civil-war
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)All of them.
crickets
(25,964 posts)FlyingPiggy
(3,384 posts)dalton99a
(81,457 posts)Botany
(70,501 posts)They listened to Rush and Hannity as they drove around.