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BigmanPigman

(52,241 posts) Fri Jun 5, 2020, 08:22 PM Jun 2020

FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 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 Sheriff's 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 don't 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."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement?__twitter_impression=true

*This is from 2016, so it is from 14 years ago but still applies.

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FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed? (Original Post) BigmanPigman Jun 2020 OP

yes there's lots more of them now that's a change nt msongs Jun 2020 #1

Yes allnews Jun 2020 #2

yes. it has gotten worse. mopinko Jun 2020 #3

Racism is endemic to Police forces. It has a history. cayugafalls Jun 2020 #4

msongs

(70,170 posts)

1. yes there's lots more of them now that's a change nt

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Fri Jun 5, 2020, 08:23 PM

Jun 2020

allnews

(245 posts)

2. Yes

Reply to BigmanPigman (Original post)

Fri Jun 5, 2020, 08:26 PM

Jun 2020

Aren’t there more of them because Trumps people assured they were no longer considered domestic terrorists?

mopinko

(71,800 posts)

3. yes. it has gotten worse.

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Fri Jun 5, 2020, 08:32 PM

Jun 2020

cayugafalls

(5,755 posts)

4. Racism is endemic to Police forces. It has a history.

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Fri Jun 5, 2020, 08:35 PM

Jun 2020

Slave patrols
There are two historical narratives about the origins of American law enforcement.

Policing in southern slave-holding states had roots in slave patrols, squadrons made up of white volunteers empowered to use vigilante tactics to enforce laws related to slavery. They located and returned enslaved people who had escaped, crushed uprisings led by enslaved people and punished enslaved workers found or believed to have violated plantation rules.

The first slave patrols arose in South Carolina in the early 1700s. As University of Georgia social work professor Michael A. Robinson has written, by the time John Adams became the second U.S. president, every state that had not yet abolished slavery had them.

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https://theconversation.com/the-racist-roots-of-american-policing-from-slave-patrols-to-traffic-stops-112816

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