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This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action

posted by martyb on Friday June 21 2019, @09:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the Thin-blue-racist-line dept.

aristarchus writes:

Facebook may be trying to censor hate-speech, but others are putting it to good use.

From CNN

Law enforcement agencies in Dallas and Florida on Thursday became the latest to announce they are investigating allegations some of their employees made offensive comments on Facebook after a watchdog group compiled screenshots of the posts and shared them in an online database.

The screenshots of the public posts, published in the Plain View Project's online database, purport to show officers or police department employees making hateful or racist remarks.

[...] Since its founding in 2017, the Plain View Project says it has compiled images of more than 5,000 social media posts and comments by more than 3,500 current and former police officers in eight jurisdictions throughout the US.
Researchers obtained rosters of police officers and then looked them up on Facebook, according to the project's website.

After examining the profiles to confirm they belonged to police officers, they reviewed public posts and comments to see if they would "undermine public trust and confidence in police."

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by nitehawk214 on Friday June 21 2019, @02:26PM (2 children)

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Friday June 21 2019, @02:26PM (#858547)

    Even if you don't care about racist cops, can you imagine the liability to the department if one of these racists goes out an shoots a black kid? The department knew the cop was racist and let him go out anyhow.

    Granted, most police departments probably already know which of their employees are racist, those kind of people are clinically unable to keep their mouths shut. But as long as its not posted publicly, the administrators can claim deniability.

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday June 21 2019, @07:41PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday June 21 2019, @07:41PM (#858644)

    Even if you don't care about racist cops, can you imagine the liability to the department if one of these racists goes out an shoots a black kid?

    No need to imagine: At least near me, it's $6 million [apnews.com].

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 21 2019, @07:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 21 2019, @07:45PM (#858645)

    Even if you don't care about racist cops, can you imagine the liability to the department if one of these racists goes out an shoots a black kid? The department knew the cop was racist and let him go out anyhow.

    Someone else pays.