#106: Police Attitudes in Plain View
Criminal (In)justice
English - September 03, 2019 06:00 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 286 ratingsNews Government abuse brutality civilliberties corruption criminaljustice misconduct police policing prosecutors Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Many people make their social media posts public. Everyone can see them, like a signed billboard visible anywhere in the world. So, what should we think when we learn that *some* police officers, in some departments, have been posting racist messages or memes endorsing violence, visible to anyone on the Internet?
Emily Baker-White is founder of The Plain View Project, an organization that gathered and analyzed thousands of social media posts by police officers, from many police departments. The results reveal much – none of it positive – about the racial and other attitudes of some officers.
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