FBI’s warning of white supremacists infiltrating law enforcement nearly forgotten | theGrio

If you remember, back in November of last year I posted this article by Matt Osborne of Breitbart Unmasked - Invisible Empire? Racist Police And The KKK's 2014 Nationwide Recruiting Drive.  In concluding his piece - where he briefly mentions this 2013 report (LAW AND ORDER AND WHITE POWER: WHITE SUPREMACIST INFILTRATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE NEED TO ELIMINATE RACISM IN THE RANKS)
 which discusses how law enforcement agencies are a "primary target for infiltration":

White supremacy ideology endures in the United States. White supremacy adherents strategize on how to implement their vision of a white America. Members pledge on their membership card of the Knights Party, a Klan-affiliated white supremacist group, to work for the “protection of the White race” and to advance their cause in “all areas of society, whether economic, judicial, social, educational, scientific, or political.”  To reach all areas of society, white supremacists seek to infiltrate the political establishment, the military, and law enforcement.  This article focuses on white supremacists infiltrating law enforcement, the dangers posed by such infiltration, and the need for law enforcement employers to discharge racist officers.

I pointed out that he asked a very important question. ",,,but what about the extremists wearing badges?" It is an issue that is not new.

In October of 2006, the FBI published a report called “White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement.” The report basically warns that white supremacist leaders have “historically shown an interest in infiltrating law enforcement communities or recruiting law enforcement personnel.”

According to “The Grio,” a number of key events foreshadowed the report:

Several key events preceded the report. A federal court found that members of a Los Angeles sheriffs department formed a Neo Nazi gang and habitually terrorized the black community. Later, the Chicago police department fired Jon Burge, a detective with reputed ties to the Ku Klux Klan, after discovering he tortured over 100 black male suspects. Thereafter, the Mayor of Cleveland discovered that many of the city police locker rooms were infested with “White Power” graffiti. Years later, a Texas sheriff department discovered that two of its deputies were recruiters for the Klan.

In near prophetic fashion, after the FBI’s warning, white supremacy extremism in the U.S. increased, exponentially. From 2008 to 2014, the number of white supremacist groups, reportedly, grew from 149 to nearly a thousand, with no apparent abatement in their infiltration of law enforcement.

This year, alone, at least seven San Francisco law enforcement officers were suspended after an investigation revealed they exchanged numerous “White Power” communications laden with remarks about “lynching African-Americans and burning crosses.” Three reputed Klan members that served as correction officers were arrested for conspiring to murder a black inmate. At least four Fort Lauderdale police officers were fired after an investigation found that the officers fantasized about killing black suspects.

FBI’s warning of white supremacists infiltrating law enforcement nearly forgotten | theGrio