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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRacist Police Emails Put Florida Cases in Doubt
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/us/miami-prosecutor-reviews-cases-of-police-officers-who-sent-racist-emails.html?_r=0KEY WEST, Fla. The Miami-Dade state attorneys office is combing through more than 150 criminal cases of black suspects arrested by Miami Beach police officers who wrote or received racist emails, the latest in a series of high-profile episodes around the nation that have raised troubling questions about the relations between the police and the communities they serve.
Two ranking officers at the Miami Beach Police Department sent about 230 emails that contained racist and sexist jokes and pornography from 2010-12, Chief Dan Oates announced Thursday. A former police captain, who had been demoted to lieutenant, was fired, and a major retired before the investigation was made public.
Fourteen other officers received the emails, the police department said.
The episode, which follows the release of racist or homophobic emails in Ferguson, Mo.; San Francisco; and Fort Lauderdale, adds another level of discord to the often-strained relations between the police and minority groups. Officers in Edison, N.J.; Seattle; Baton Rouge, La.; and Casselberry, Fla., have also been fired or disciplined over racist text and email messages, a wave that some experts believe indicates a culture in which officers are comfortable expressing racist views.
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Racist Police Emails Put Florida Cases in Doubt (Original Post)
steve2470
May 2015
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And capable, yeah willing, to kill same as a kind of belt-notching known to the
libdem4life
May 2015
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libdem4life
(13,877 posts)1. And capable, yeah willing, to kill same as a kind of belt-notching known to the
Brotherhood of Protect and Serve Ourselves.
enough
(13,256 posts)2. This pattern extends beyond police departments. A majority-black School District near me
recently fired high-level administrators (white males) for exchanging vast numbers of vile racist, homophobic and sexist texts on official school phones. It has me wondering what is this compulsion to express one's bigotry in writing over electronic media. It's as if these people are actually trying to prove something to themselves and others by this behavior.