Kamala Harris was endorsed by the SFPD, one of the most racist police departments in the whole country. All you have to type is “SFPD racism” and you’ll get an avalanche of articles. If that isn’t MAGA then I don’t know what is.
After investigations into serious misconduct, findings of systemic bias cast a pall on law enforcement and question the city’s faith as a progressive beacon
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court filing by a US attorney pulled back the curtain of the San Francisco police department in March last year, revealing a shockingly ugly culture in which
sworn officers of the law exchanged text messages expressing such sentiments as “All ******s must fukking hang” and “Cross burning lowers blood pressure”.
The ensuing scandal –
which implicated 14 officers and compromised thousands of criminal cases – cast a pall on the police department and shook San Francisco’s faith in itself as a progressive beacon.
Elected leaders and the police brass quickly and forcefully denounced the officers involved and promised reform. But even as the city attempted to clean up the mess,
another group of at least four San Francisco police officers was exchanging text messages that mocked the community response to the scandal, used racist slurs and denigrated LGBT people.
The revelation last week of that second batch of bigoted text messages has prompted another round of recrimination between city leaders and again raised the question: how can this be happening in liberal
San Francisco?
“We seem to have a continuation of the problem,” said George Gascón, the city’s district attorney. “Last year the police department indicated that this was an isolated incident. I differed then because you don’t just have 14 people being racist without there being a wider problem.”
It is perhaps easier to identify that problem from a text message reading “White Power” than it is from a department’s overall work product, but statistics paint a damning picture of law enforcement in the city by the bay.
George Gascón
San Francisco’s population is just 5.8% black, but black adults make up 40% of all arrests in the city and 56% of inmates in the San Francisco county jail. A 2015 study found that black adults were seven times as likely to be arrested as whites, and black women were 13.4 times as likely to be arrested as white women.
What is often overlooked in discussions of the racist text messages is the fact that both were discovered in the course of investigations into serious misconduct by SFPD officers.
The first batch was revealed in the course of a federal investigation into a group of officers who were caught on video illegally searching and stealing property from residents of single-room occupancy hotels. Six officers were ultimately
indicted in the corruption case, which resulted in multiple
convictions.
The second batch came out because of a criminal investigation into allegations of rape against officer Jason Lai. The investigation found insufficient evidence to support a sexual assault charge, but Lai was
charged with six misdemeanor counts of misusing police records. Another officer, Lt Curtis Liu, allegedly interfered with the
investigation into Lai.
Gascón pointed to another troubling case as evidence of systemic bias in the SFPD: Operation Safe Schools.
The joint SFPD/DEA effort was supposed to target drug dealing near schools and resulted in the arrest of 37 people – all black. Leaked surveillance video of the operation revealed undercover officers eschewing arrests of non-black people engaging in the same criminal activity as the black people they did arrest.
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the coli shills got no shame no spine backbone or brain to be objective and see evil for what it is... These folks really want to same person as Biden who locked up innocent black folks to be president.. that's who you want as this country's leader???
what a fukking joke
