1. It seems to have been lost down the memory hole, but last year the Plain View Project examined the Facebook pages of 1000s of police officers from several police departments around the country. The findings were extraordinary. buzzfeednews.com/article/emilyh…
2. The project found 1000s upon 1000s of racist, bigoted, misogynistic, xenophobic posts; posts that glorified and reveled in police violence; posts that fantasized about killing protestors; posts that mocked the constitutional rights of citizens. nytimes.com/2019/06/03/us/…
4. Here is another, again from a police officer in Philly. 
5. Here is one from a Dallas police officer.
6. Here’s one from an officer in St. Louis.
7. Here’s one from a Phoenix police officer.
8. Here’s another one from a Phoenix officer.
9. Of the officers whose Facebook pages the project was able to identify ONE IN FIVE contained a disturbing post. The ratio was two in five for retired officers. buzzfeednews.com/article/emilyh…
10. The conclusion to draw, it seems to me, is that a significant minority of police officers, 20%, have views that are inconsistent with the values we would want in a law enforcement officer – and they felt comfortable articulating that in a public post. buzzfeednews.com/article/emilyh…
11. At some point “a few bad apples,” becomes “a significant subculture of bigotry, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and gratuitous violence.” And even more disturbingly: a dominant culture that feels comfortable with the public expression of those values. nytimes.com/2019/06/03/us/…
