The Plain View Project

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The Plain View Project

The Plain View Project is a database of public Facebook posts and comments made by current and former police officers from several jurisdictions across the United States.

We present these posts and comments because we believe that they could undermine public trust and confidence in our police. In our view, people who are subject to decisions made by law enforcement may fairly question whether these online statements about race, religion, ethnicity and the acceptability of violent policing—among other topics—inform officers’ on-the-job behaviors and choices.

To be clear, our concern is not whether these posts and comments are protected by the First Amendment. Rather, we believe that because fairness, equal treatment, and integrity are essential to the legitimacy of policing, these posts and comments should be part of a national dialogue about police.

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. . . these posts and comments should be part of a national dialogue about police.

Thanks for posting.

Social media vis a vis governmental employees has been a hot topic of many seminars I've attended over the last 3/4 years. I don't believe there is any question that what public employees say over social/public media can hurt relations between the public and the police/government. On the other hand, when the rules effectively prevent the posting of offensive and especially racist statements -- are we helped or harmed by not knowing, hearing or reading what's really on the minds of those in whom we've placed so much trust, to do the right thing ???
 

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The Plain View Project

The Plain View Project is a database of public Facebook posts and comments made by current and former police officers from several jurisdictions across the United States.


What a Timely Post . . .


Lawmakers Respond To 'Vile,' Secret Facebook Group Created By Border Patrol Agents


July 2, 20197:07 AM ET

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Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, speaks alongside members of the Hispanic Caucus after touring the Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas, on Monday.

Cedar Attanasio/AP


Customs and Border Protection has launched an investigation into a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents in which members posted derogatory remarks targeting migrants and lawmakers.

The group, which called itself "I'm 10-15" — a reference to the Border Patrol code for "aliens in custody" — was revealed Monday by ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, as a delegation of Democratic congressional lawmakers toured three migrant detention facilities in southwestern Texas.

Among the group's most offensive posts were discussions of recent migrant deaths, including that of a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in May while he was in Border Patrol custody in Texas. Other posts joked about throwing burritos at lawmakers visiting its facilities.

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, who were both part of the delegation, were also targets of the group. Members referred to the women as "scumbags" and on multiple occasions posted graphic illustrations falsely depicting Ocasio-Cortez performing a sex act.

"These posts are completely inappropriate and contrary to the honor and integrity I see—and expect—from our agents day in and day out," Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost said in an emailed statement. She added that any employees who have violated the agency's standards of conduct "will be held accountable."

Matthew Klein, assistant commissioner at the CBP, said that after learning of the "disturbing social media activity," the agency immediately informed the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General and initiated an investigation.

Border Patrol has come under intense scrutiny for its treatment of migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. as the Trump administration has moved to implement more aggressive measures to curb the surge of migrants at the border.

Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, condemned the online group, following a tour of the Border Patrol's Clint facility.

"That was a vulgar, disgusting and vile page," he told reporters. "That shows, unfortunately, that there are many within CBP who've become desensitized to the point of being dangerous to the migrants in their care."

Castro added: "It shocks the conscience that these agents are entrusted with the lives of anybody in their custody."

The Clint shelter became a flashpoint last month for critics of the Trump administration's policies over how it treats unaccompanied migrant children. A group of lawyers who visited the Border Patrol-run facility said roughly 300 children were being detained in filthy conditions with no access to showers or personal hygiene products and with little food, for weeks at a time.

On Monday, The Associated Press released video of an unidentified girl talking about her experience there after she was reunited with her mother. She said hundreds of children were mistreated by the people who were meant to care for them; children were denied showers and had to sleep on the floor, often sharing blankets, she said.

Last week, Congress passed a $4.6 billion emergency aid package to improve conditions at temporary shelters housing migrants.




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Louisiana city fires 2 cops over Facebook post suggesting Rep. Ocasio-Cortez be shot

The police chief of Grenta, Louisiana, announced Monday that he had fired two police officers for violating the department's social media policy. One of the fired officers, Charlie Rispoli, posted on Facebook a parody news story about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) with the comment: "This vile idiot needs a round ... and I don't mean the kind she used to serve."

The second officer, Angelo Varisco, "liked" Rispoli's post.

Ripoli posted his perceived threat on Ocasio-Cortez amid President Trump's repeated attacks on her and three fellow Democratic freshmen congresswomen.

On Monday, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that the Grenta incident "is Trump's goal when he uses targeted language & threatens elected officials who don't agree w/ his political agenda. It's authoritarian behavior."

Source: The New Orleans Advocate, The Washington Post
 

QueEx

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these posts and comments should be part of a national dialogue about police.

Philadelphia's acting police commissioner apologizes
for having worn a controversial LAPD shirt


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By Joe Sutton
and Christina Maxouris, CNN
Wed September 11, 2019


(CNN) Philadelphia's acting police commissioner apologized this week for having worn an LAPD T-shirt that many perceive to be a reference to the Los Angeles police beating of Rodney King, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

The shirt Christine M. Coulter wore in the 1990s read: "L.A.P.D. We Treat You Like a King."

In her apology, Coulter said she didn't recognize at the time that the shirtcould have been perceived as a reference to King. She has previously said she had "never even thought of it as anything other than an L.A.P.D." shirt, the news outlet reported.

King was beaten by LAPD officers in March 1991after leading police on a high-speed chase through Los Angeles County. A recording of the beating showed King being struck by police batons more than 50 times. He suffered 11 fractures and other injuries. The acquittal of four white LAPD officers involved sparked violent riots across Los Angeles that left more than 50 people dead and more than 2,000 injured.


The beating, riots and aftermath forever changed the city, its police department and the race dialogue in America. In 2012, King was found dead in his swimming pool.
On Tuesday, Coulter called wearing the shirt a "careless decision."

"I am profoundly sorry that anything I would've done could've caused such hurt," she said.

Coulter's apology comes shortly after The Inquirer's report last week that she had been photographed wearing the shirt as a young police officer.
During the Tuesday meeting during which Coulter made her remarks, Philadelphia City Councilwoman Cindy Bass said she had written to Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney calling on the acting commissioner to "step down immediately," The Inquirer reported.

"It is inconceivable that she was unaware" of the T-shirt's apparent reference to the beating, Bass said.

Last week, Kenney's spokesperson said the mayor understood that the shirt could be interpreted as a reference to King but believed Coulter's "recollection of her perception was truthful," The Inquirer said.​


https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/11/us/p...sioner-apology-controversial-shirt/index.html


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