Others have been linked to far-right militia groups and white-supremacist factions, or have been identified as contributing racist posts on police message boards. An Oklahoma sheriff made national headlines in recent weeks after he was recorded reportedly talking about killing journalists and lynching Black people...
Friday, May 12, 2023
A police chief got rid of a neo-Nazi. Then came the hard part. - The Washington Post
It is difficult to measure the creep of far-right beliefs among the more than 650,000 police and sheriff's patrol officers the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics counts nationwide, but the issue is of growing concern, with dozens of prominent examples in recent years, including current and former law enforcement officers charged with taking part in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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