Police officers and departments across the nation have been accused of having implicit bias against and racist views about black people for a long time. The accusations are not new, but they are often refuted by those accused.
We are supposed to believe that law enforcement officers view everyone the same and treat everyone fairly under the letter of the law. We are supposed to believe that, but we know deep in our souls that it’s not true.
So when the Plain View Project (PVP) took a look at the public profiles of law enforcement officers from eight jurisdictions and put together a database that showed these officers frequently posted racist comments, memes and expressions of violence—some of the very things that activists in the Movement for Black Lives have protested against—it was met with a feeling of “See, we told y’all” combined with a cup of “But what are y’all going to do about it?”
