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Hundreds of active and former US police officers are part of extremist FB groups
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoNot good. But, now run the same experiment with law enforcement and Antifa.
- ncmncm 7y agoVery funny. Those anti-fascists are just mowing down innocent people left and right, shooting up bingo parlors and country clubs everywhere you look, aren't they?
- CM30 7y agoControversial, but couldn't you make this claim about almost any profession with a decent number of practitioners and any sort of responsibility? Probably about any political side or extreme outgroup too. There are likely at least a million police officers in the US, so hundreds of those being associated with questionable Facebook groups hardly seems like it'd be statistically relevant. And you could probably swap police officers with teachers, doctors, lawyers, politicians or military personnel and find similar figures.
- tomohawk 7y agoLots of innuendo here, but that's about it. How many former police are members of the Democrat party? Would that be news?
- ncmncm 7y agoI see the astroturf committee is out in force already. TFA said their match got 14000 hits, and they called police and sheriffs' offices and confirmed 400. But how many did they call about? Were they randomly selected, or were the ones called about identified as more likely than others? We know that these domestic terrorist groups encourage members to join and try to subvert police departments and border patrol offices, and we know that the presence of just one has been seen to profoundly increase the amount of brutality in a department.