History Of Law Enforcement Siding With White Supremacist

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History of law enforcement siding with white supremacist.

Two current and two former law enforcement officials were among those charged. An all white jury convicted seven of the klansman but only one of the law enforcement officers. Remarkably one of the most compelling but unexplored explanations may rest with a fbi warning of october 2006 which reported that white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement represented a. It is important we understand the history of law enforcement in order to make sense of how they stand today.

He digs up cases that are frankly astonishing. In the 1990s a federal judge found that there was a neo nazi white supremacist gang of los angeles police deputies self styled the vikings that existed with the knowledge of police department officials. Policing gets formed for the most part in the late 18th and early 19th century in both europe and the united states. We cannot separate their past from their present.

The history of racism and white supremacist membership in law enforcement agencies is long and well documented. In 2014 two florida officers including a deputy police chief were fired after an fbi informant outed. German goes on to trace the history of white supremacy in law enforcement from slavery days through jim crow up to the present day. Since 2000 law enforcement officials with alleged connections to white supremacist groups or far right militant activities have been exposed in alabama california connecticut florida illinois.

Can you talk me through a little bit of the history of american police departments and the enforcement of white supremacy. Problems with white supremacists in law enforcement have surfaced since that report. Police work so closely with and many of them are white supremacists because they were founded by white supremacists.