Racism

Chicago’s police oversight agency has cited a veteran officer for more than 60 rule violations, blasting him for repeatedly posting insensitive racial and religious comments on Facebook and promoting violence against police protesters, Muslims and others. In addition to the Facebook posts, Officer Brian J. Hansen allegedly parked his Chevrolet Equinox outside the Central District … Read more

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office issues hundreds of pedestrian citations a year, drawing on an array of 28 separate statutes governing how people get around on foot in Florida’s most populous city. There is, of course, the straightforward jaywalking statute, barring people from crossing against a red light. But in Jacksonville, pedestrians can also be ticketed … Read more

The police chief of a town in Maryland was fired after he took huge steps at calling out and fighting racism within his department. A crowd of supporters for the Pocomoke City chief gathered outside City Hall. They were demanding that their community’s first African American police chief be hired back. Protesters held signs reading … Read more

Philadelphia police officials investigating an officer with a tattoo resembling a Nazi emblem knew he’d been accused of involvement in a white supremacist group and dismissed the allegation based on the officer’s denial, according to an internal affairs memo. The department cleared officer Ian Lichterman of misconduct following a three-month investigation in late 2016, and … Read more

The former chief of a small township in New Jersey has been arrested on federal hate crime and civil rights charges for what federal authorities described as a pattern of racist comments and behavior — including slamming an African American teen’s head into a metal door jamb and saying that black people are “like ISIS.” … Read more

CLEVELAND, OHIO―Today, Ramón Ortiz filed a lawsuit to enforce a public-records request to the City of Cleveland for records that would reveal whether the police chief or safety director have taken any disciplinary action against officers for the August 16, 2010 attack on Mr. Ortiz’s son Juan, and for shouting racial slurs at the Ortiz … Read more

A top law-enforcement official in Palm Beach County, Florida is coming under fire for allegedly being a white nationalist, fantasizing and plotting the death of black citizens or Jews. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Michael Gauger was exposed for his correspondence with other members of the now-defunct Stormfront White Supremacist web site, whose … Read more

Javier Ortiz, the head of Miami’s police union, was promoted from lieutenant to captain Wednesday, despite his past harassment of women of color and racist statements. Just a few months ago, Ortiz was recently assigned desk duty and stripped of his gun for harassing and doxxing a woman of color, after she reported a speeding … Read more

An Oklahoma police department has been the center of scrutiny over its handling of a case involving one of its officers and a racially fueled attack on NFL protests. The Verdigris Police Department had been receiving so many complaints from the public on social media this past week that administrators chose to take the VPD … Read more

A white Georgia sheriff’s deputy has been terminated and another white officer abruptly resigned following an internal affairs investigation that uncovered racist and sexist messages they sent each other on Facebook, including one that described what appeared to be an effort to target black motorists. The two officers — both former McIntosh County sheriff’s deputies … Read more

Black men in Alabama were racially profiled and made criminals by a group of racist police. According to the Henry County Report, the incidents occurred in Dothan, Alabama where at least 12 White police officers involved. The officers were a part of a narcotics team and were supervised by Lt. Steve Parrish, who is now … Read more