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The Guardian: White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across the US says former FBI analyst.

Humidex

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Today saw the release of an analysis of just how deep white supremacist groups have managed to infiltrate US law enforcement. Michael German, a former FBI analyst, concludes that since 2000, law enforcement officials in more than a dozen states have been caught getting involved in far-right militant activities.

Checking this one out in full later. Worth a read.
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.
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There is growing awareness in some parts of the government about the intensifying threat of white supremacy. The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have directly identified white supremacists as the most lethal domestic terrorist threat in the country. According to German's report, the FBI's own internal documents have directly warned that the militia groups the agency is investigating often have "active links" to law enforcement.

And yet US agencies lack a national strategy to identify white supremacist police and root out this problem, German warned. Meanwhile, popular police reform efforts to address "implicit bias" have done nothing to confront explicit racism.
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www.theguardian.com

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

A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and racist militant activities in more than a dozen states
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gillian03

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Honestly I'm not even surprised.

I like how the Brennan Center article gives tons of sources cited for their claims. So I guess I'm gonna scour the sources and distribute them to friends and fam who don't believe this is going on.
 

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ezrarh said:
Can you really say infiltrated if this was what it always was?
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Yeah. Started as slave catchers.
 
jelly

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How do you fix it, is it soley up to states so gives it even less of a chance?
 
Hasseigaku

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"Wearin' a badge and clothed in white"

The idea that the good old boys who smiled while they watched lynchings wouldn't wind up with sons in law enforcement with a similar belief system was always delusional.
 
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Equippedwithtowel said:
We knew this back in the oughts but both parties chose to politely ignore it.
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Our brother decided to violate Muslims overseas and curtailed the civil liberties of US Muslims here instead of protecting his own people. White nationalists in law enforcement is a "fucking DUH" situation for Black Americans and has been known for a century. It's a blown opportunity that we had a Black president that did little about it then disbanded the DHS white terrorism unit once Rush Limbaugh made a public hissy fit.

Shirley Sherrod was right about him, Obama didn't truly understand the struggle.
 
nopressure

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infiltrated? lol

they were actively sought after and rewarded every step of the way by their institution.
 
Magilla

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OMG. I'm glad we found out before it was too late. I'm sure that this will be remedied immediately.
 
dabig2

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Equippedwithtowel said:
We knew this back in the oughts but both parties chose to politely ignore it.
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Daria said:
the FBI Counterterrorism Division released a report in 2006 about white supremacy infiltration of LE http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/402521/doc-26-white-supremacist-infiltration.pdf

edit: granted it's very short. trying to dig up articles from a few years back examining the same thing
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indeed. An article from 2016 during the Obama days:
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FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed?

In 2006, the FBI warned that white supremacists infiltrating local and state law enforcement posed a threat to national security. Some are asking, what's been done to curb the trend in the decade since?
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Increased attention toward the killing of black men and women by police throughout the past year has ignited national conversations on racism and law enforcement. From Freddie Gray in April 2015 to Deborah Danner — an "emotionally disturbed" woman fatally shot this week by an NYPD officer — protests around the country have forced many Americans to reassess how police engage with communities of color.

In light of — or perhaps despite — the increased scrutiny, FBI director James Comey told police officers at a national conference last Sunday that because of insufficient data on use of force, "Americans actually have no idea" whether racial bias in policing is really an epidemic. Pointing to current public outrage over police killings of African-Americans, Comey said "the absence of good information" and data has aided in the growing belief that police officers target particular communities.
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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."
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At some point we're going to have to actually do something about this instead of merely acknowledging it whenever the pigs get up to some public bullshit.
 
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