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    Rhodes Middle School student slammed by SAISD police officer

    http://www.kens5.com/news/education/...icer/123085099



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    Video shows SAISD officer slamming middle school girl to the ground

    Officer Joshua Kehm placed on paid administrative leave

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    How Private Prison Companies Use Big Tax Breaks and Low Wages to Maximize Profit

    The two largest private prison firms in the United States are exploiting a loophole in the tax code to secure millions of dollars in corporate tax breaks.

    Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group avoided a combined $113 million in federal income taxes in 2015 alone, according to an analysis of federal financial filings by the racial and economic justice group Enlace.


    The prison business is booming despite efforts to reduce the nation's prison population, which has exploded in recent decades and forced the government to contract with private prison companies to meet demand. Last year, CCA reported $222 million in net profits, and GEO Group reported $139 million.


    CCA and GEO Group have enjoyed increased profits per prisoner housed in their facilities since 2012, when both companies began converting themselves into special real estate trusts that are exempt from the federal corporate income tax, at least in the eyes of the IRS.

    The conversion has effectively lowered each company's tax rate by 30 percent or more, according to annual reports submitted to investors and regulators.

    CCA, which owns 66 jails and prisons nationwide and runs an additional 11 facilities on behalf of the federal and state governments, reported a net income tax benefit of nearly $138 million in 2013 alone.


    The massive tax breaks have enraged prison reformers and advocates for communities impacted by incarceration, and they are currently pe ioning Congress to remove them.


    Federal law requires the bulk of these tax benefits to be paid out to shareholders in dividends, so the benefits do not trickle down to average private prison employees unless they are stockholders themselves.

    From 2012 to 2015, the average hourly wage for correctional officers at both companies dropped from $16.47 per hour to $15.53, according to an analysis by the watchdog group In the Public Interest


    http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/3...aximize-profit

    America is corrupted to un ability by BigCorp as BigCorp corrupts politicians.




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    Black Helicopter news

    Spies In The Skies

    America is being watched from above. Government surveillance planes routinely circle over most major cities — but usually take the weekends off.

    Each weekday, dozens of U.S. government aircraft take to the skies and slowly circle over American cities. Piloted by agents of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the planes are fitted with high-resolution video cameras, often working with “augmented reality” software that can superimpose onto the video images everything from street and business names to the owners of individual homes. At least a few planes have carried devices that can track the cell phones of people below. Most of the aircraft are small, flying a mile or so above ground, and many use exhaust mufflers to mute their engines — making them hard to detect by the people they’re spying on.

    The government’s airborne surveillance has received little public scrutiny — until now. BuzzFeed News has assembled an unprecedented picture of the operation’s scale and sweep by analyzing aircraft location data collected by the flight-tracking website Flightradar24 from mid-August to the end of December last year, identifying about 200 federal aircraft. Day after day, dozens of these planes circled above cities across the nation.

    Day after day, dozens of these planes circled above cities across the nation.

    The FBI and the DHS would not discuss the reasons for individual flights but told BuzzFeed News that their planes are not conducting mass surveillance.

    The DHS said that its aircraft were involved with securing the nation’s borders, as well as targeting drug smuggling and human trafficking, and may also be used to support investigations by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. The FBI said that its planes are only used to target suspects in specific investigations of serious crimes, pointing to a statement issued in June 2015, after reporters and lawmakers started asking questions about FBI surveillance flights.

    “It should come as no surprise that the FBI uses planes to follow terrorists, spies, and serious criminals,” said FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano, in that statement. “We have an obligation to follow those people who want to hurt our country and its citizens, and we will continue to do so.”

    But most of these government planes took the weekends off. The BuzzFeed News analysis found that surveillance flight time dropped more than 70% on Saturdays, Sundays, and federal holidays.


    http://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/spies-in-the-skies



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    thinking that they are not conducting mass surveillance. As much as I hate to agree with their tactics, though, using the current cons utional and generally, felony laws a basis, they have every right to watch us.

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    racist pigs news

    More blacks and Latinos lose their driver’s licenses than whites due to unpaid tickets

    African American and Latino drivers in California have another reason to question police these days.

    A recent study from the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area used U.S. Census Bureau data, records from the California Department of Motor Vehicles and records from 15 police and sheriff’s departments in California that track the results of unpaid traffic citations.

    The findings showed unmistakably that people of color have a higher rate of losing their license due to unpaid tickets as well as a higher rate of being arrested for driving on a suspended license.

    “Individuals who cannot afford to pay an infraction citation are being arrested, jailed and prosecuted, and are losing their licenses and their livelihoods,” the report in theLA Times said.

    “The communities impacted by these policies are disproportionately communities of color.”


    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/more...e+Raw+Story%29



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    District Fires Cop Who Threw Girl to Ground in Viral Video



    Officer Joshua Kehm, who was shown in a widely circulated video throwing a 12-year-old Central Texas student to the ground, was fired Monday by the San Antonio Independent School District Police Department.

    He’d worked for the district for more than a year, but had not yet completed a new course in school policing, which the state began offering in early 2016.


    https://www.texasobserver.org/saisd-joshua-kehm-fired/

    Joshua Kehm, and he went.



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    A Machinery Of Denial

    Chicago police officer Gil Sierra shot three black men in six months and stayed on the force. This is how the city with more police shootings than any other in America circles its wagons.

    Pinex’s death was one of 70 fatal police shootings in Chicago between 2010 and 2014, more than any police department in America over that stretch. And like other fatal police shootings in this city, it set in motion a series of familiar events and decisions, a set of practices that almost always leads to the same result: Chicago police officers facing little to no punishment.

    A Georgia State University review of Chicago police shootings from 2006 to 2014 found that 95% of victims were people of color.


    https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamah...d-i#.grbA4GZrN



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    A Machinery Of Denial

    Chicago police officer Gil Sierra shot three black men in six months and stayed on the force. This is how the city with more police shootings than any other in America circles its wagons.

    Pinex’s death was one of 70 fatal police shootings in Chicago between 2010 and 2014, more than any police department in America over that stretch. And like other fatal police shootings in this city, it set in motion a series of familiar events and decisions, a set of practices that almost always leads to the same result: Chicago police officers facing little to no punishment.

    A Georgia State University review of Chicago police shootings from 2006 to 2014 found that 95% of victims were people of color.


    https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamah...d-i#.grbA4GZrN


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    TSA seek mental health care.

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    NYPD Gets Sued After Kicking Wrong Family Out of Home

    The New York Police Department got an order kicking a family of four out of their Queens apartment by telling a judge it was a drug den — but the dealers had moved out seven months earlier.

    A lawsuit to be filed in Brooklyn Federal Court on Tuesday details an egregious case of the NYPD’s use of the nuisance abatement law — a controversial tool in which cops are able to get a temporary order barring people from their homes without first giving them the opportunity to appear before a judge.

    The bungled operation left Austria Bueno, 32, a housekeeper, crashing at a hotel and on a relative’s floor, beside her two sons and husband, for four nights, as they waited for their first court date.

    “Everybody cried. Me, I was crying like a baby,” said Bueno. “I don’t deserve that. My kids don’t deserve that either.”


    Her lawsuit, which cites the Daily News and ProPublica’s ongoing investigation into the NYPD’s misuse of the nuisance abatement law, seeks to have the legislation and its provision for secret lockout orders declared uncons utional.


    A new analysis by the Daily News has also found the number of cases filed by the NYPD has dropped substantially since the first investigation was published in February.

    Bueno’s ordeal began before she even got to the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City. Police say a confidential informant purchased crack at her future apartment twice in January 2015. A subsequent search turned up crack, weapons and $21,500.

    Bueno and her family moved into the apartment months later, in August 2015.


    https://www.propublica.org/article/n...ent=1460472902



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    TSA seek mental health care.
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    UC Davis Wants You To Forget About Its Pepper Spray Incident. So Here’s The Video

    University of California Davis spent an exorbitant amount of money to make you forget that one of its officers pepper-sprayed a bunch of students for protesting tuition hikes.

    The video, photos and memes that resulted were such a public relations nightmare for the school that it paid $175,000 for consultants to scrub its negative search results and improve the reputation of university Chancellor Linda P. B. Katehi,

    UC Davis would pay almost $1 million in settlement money to 21 students and their lawyers. It put Pike and former UC Davis Police Chief Annette uzza on paid administrative leave for an undisclosed amount of money and time. Then, the university awarded Pike more than $38,000 in workers compensation for “psychiatric injury” he sustained during the fallout.

    In all, UC Davis has funneled millions toward its problem. Here’s a breakdown:


    • $980,000 — In 2012, a settlement was reached to pay 21 students $30,000 each, pay $250,000 to their lawyers, and set aside an extra $100,000 in case more plaintiffs joined the class action.
    • $175,000 — In 2013, UC Davis hired various consultants to improve the university’s search results online and boost its image.
    • $38,055 — Two years after the incident, Lt. Pike was awarded workers compensation for psychiatric damage.
    • $2,540,000 — The Bee found that the university increased its strategic communications budget from $2.93 million in 2009 to $5.47 million in 2015, in part so that the “reputation of the university is fairly portrayed.”


    An unknown amount of money spent while Pike and former police Chief Annette uzza were on paid administrative leave.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...03d8b7b9fb62b?





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    National Crime Agency Used Hundreds Of Flawed Warrants, Official Review Finds

    Almost 90% of the warrants used by Britain’s elite crime-fighters to search property and seize evidence have been found to be faulty by a sweeping independent review, after BuzzFeed News uncovered the “systemic” failings last year.

    https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomwarren/n...ant#.ht72bWG61

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    Innocent man ends up pals with crooked cop who framed him.


    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/on-the-r...at-locked-him/

    "I falsified the report," former Benton Harbor police officer Andrew Collins admitted.

    "Basically, at the start of that day, I was going to make sure I had another drug arrest." And in the end, he put an innocent guy in jail.

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    Pennsylvania cop threatens child on school bus: Don’t smile or I’ll drag you to the f*cking police car

    A police officer outside the city of Pittsburgh was caught on tape berating a school child on a bus for smiling at him, according to a video posted to Facebook.
    The video was posted on April 13 but the caption doesn’t give much in the way of details.

    It says the officer works for the Braddock Police Department.

    He walks over to a child seated on a school bus and leans over threateningly.


    “Smile in my face one more time and I’ll be dragging your ass off this bus and back to that f*cking police car,” the officer says. “Don’t smile one more time.”


    The video doesn’t show the child he was talking to, but the other children on the bus seem to be elementary school-age.

    http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/penn...e+Raw+Story%29

    Law enforcement, prison work attracts murderous, sadistic, racist, less bullies. Wannabe macho skinheads hiding behind external, not intrinsic power, hiding behind dark glasses.



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    Over 7,800 Prosecutions Questioned After NJ Lab Tech Caught Faking Drug Test Results

    from the so-fast-the-tests-can't-even-keep-up-with-him dept

    Hey, it's only someone's freedom at stake. Why try harder? (via Fusion.net)

    A lab technician for the State Police allegedly faked results in a drug case, and has drawn into question 7,827 criminal cases on which he worked, according to state officials.

    Kamalkant Shah worked as a laboratory technician for the State Police laboratory in Little Falls and was found to have "dry labbed" suspected marijuana, according to a Feb. 29 memo to Public Defender Joseph Krakora from Deputy Public Defender Judy Fallon.

    Shah's essentially accused of making up data.
    "Basically, he was observed writing 'test results' for suspected marijuana that was never tested," Fallon said in the memo.

    If Shah wasn't concerned about putting a possibly innocent person behind bars, it's unlikely his yearly salary of $101,039 would have been much of a motivating factor for better work either. It could be that this was an isolated incident -- the one time Shah cut corners to increase throughput.

    (Which, truth be told, is kind of how our entire criminal justice system operates: throughput is preferable to diligent effort.)

    https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...%28Techdirt%29



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    Judge holds public defender in contempt for doing his job

    Weill was hearing arguments from the state to revoke the bond given in County Court to a woman her office represented. The woman was in court with her 3-month-old baby and both began to cry.

    Routh requested a finding on why bail for the accused was being denied and Weill immediately said he wanted order in court, according to an affidavit filed in state Supreme Court. The affidavit said Weill took a 10 minute break and then held Routh in contempt.

    Attorney Merrida "Buddy" Coxwell, representing Routh, filed an emergency appeal with the state high court. A three-judge panel of the court granted the pe ion in part filed on behalf of Routh. It said Routh should be immediately released from custody after posting a $500 bond while he appeals his contempt citation to the state high court.

    “We have had over nine attorneys to serve in Judge Weill’s courtroom. And every one of those attorneys has at some point been threatened with the contempt that has never occurred in any of the other courtrooms,” claims Harris. In December, Harris herself was escorted out of Weill’s courtroom. At that time, the Supreme Court also sided with the public defenders.

    “We will continue to do our jobs, and that is what is required of us and that’s what we’ll do,” says Harris. “We will not be intimidated. We will not be bullied.”

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/04/15/1515684/-Judge-holds-public-defender-in-contempt-for-doing-his-job?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_camp aign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29



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    America’s Cash Bail System Is a Disgrace

    Thhere are only two countries on the planet that currently jail people for being too poor to pay the government for getting arrested:

    The United States and the Philippines. That’s right. Two.

    As
    Slate’s Leon Neyfakh explained last year, there is currently a crusade underway in this country to end the practice of caging poor people who have been arrested for misdemeanors and traffic violations unless they can come up with sums ranging from $300 to $500.

    One prominent civil rights attorney in Washington D.C., Alec Karakatsanis, has been
    filing suits across the United States arguing that this practice is uncons utional.

    In any given year, city and county jails across this country lock up between 11 and 13 million people just because they aren’t rich enough to write a check for a few hundred dollars.

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/04/jason_flom_on_how_to_get_rid_of_cash_bail.html

    One nasty ing country, huh?



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    The NYPD is Running Stings Against Immigrant-Owned Shops, Then Pushing For Warrantless Searches

    “It was total entrapment,” says one storeowner.

    AN UNDERCOVER NYPD OFFICER entered the spotless Super Laundromat & Dry Cleaners in Inwood, a largely Dominican neighborhood at the northernmost tip of Manhattan. He made his rounds through the store, hawking what he said were stolen gadgets — an iPhone, iPad Mini and iPad.

    One man took the bait, agreeing to s out $200 for all three. He was arrested during the May 2013 sting, and the trouble seemed to end there.



    But seven months later — the week before Christmas — cops arrived at the laundromat again. This time, they slapped a neon sticker on the front door declaring in block letters: “RESTRAINING ORDER.”

    They presented the store’s owner, Sung Cho, with a daunting slew of legal papers, threatening to shutter the laundromat for a year and auction off everything inside. Their justification, the cops said: The store was being “used to facilitate criminal possession of stolen property.”


    Cho was shocked. The 54-year-old Korean immigrant said he had operated his shop for six years without a problem. He says he had even helped cops solve neighborhood crimes, giving them video footage of the sidewalk outside his store.


    To build its case, the NYPD cited the May 2013 arrest, along with one other undercover sale of an iPad months earlier for $100 and tips that people inside the laundromat were buying stolen property. Cho said police never told him about the iPad sale or the tips.


    “It cannot be denied that this subject premises is a serious public nuisance,” the NYPD wrote in boilerplate language. “As such it should not be allowed to remain open even one more day.”


    https://www.propublica.org/article/n...ent=1461327489

    My guess is that "capitalists" wanting to buy building pay the cops to go after shop owners.

    There was a recent story of NYPD cops evicting paid-up apartment dwellers for "nuisance" or very old "drug dealing" by previous occupants.




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    RACIST TEXTS SENT BY SAN FRANCISCO POLICE OFFICER



    CNN)"I hate that ******," one text reads, "but I think the nig is worse."

    "Indian ppl are disgusting," proclaims another.
    "Burn down walgreens and kill the bums," a third message states.
    These and numerous other racist and phobic text messages were allegedly sent by a San Francisco police officer at the center of an ongoing scandal that is the most recent disturbing revelation for the beleaguered SFPD.

    Justice Department to investigate San Francisco police

    CNN has exclusively obtained a list of dozens of offensive texts sent to and from Officer Jason Lai. The content has not been previously disclosed. The list is not a full history of his texts.

    Lai resigned from the department earlier this month, according to a police spokesman.
    Don Nobles, Lai's attorney, said the texts were "not reflective of who he is" and that "there is no evidence he carried out any of those sentiments as an officer."
    "He was well liked and well loved on his beat," he said of the six-year-veteran.


    The texts were seized from Officer Jason Lai's personal phone. He's resigned from the department.
    Second scandal in as many years
    Nobles said the texts were seized from Lai's personal phone and had been exchanged with some of his closest friends on the police force, as well as with people he had befriended on his beat.

    "It's hard to say any of those things in context," the lawyer said, "but there is context to it."
    It marks the second time in as many years that the SFPD has been the subject of a racist texting scandal and could undermine Chief Greg Suhr's assertion that the problem is limited to a relative handful of officers and not part a broader cultural problem within the ranks, as critics contend.
    2015 poll: 1 in 5 African Americans report 'unfair' dealings with police in last month
    Suhr said Monday that he has no tolerance for biased officers and takes "swift and severe" action when they come to his attention. He said he is working to get the SFPD to "a better place."

    "We work for the community," Suhr said. "We work for everybody and when somebody demonstrates that they have this reprehensible character trait, we need to cut them from the body."


    Lai allegedly sent dozens of racist and phobic texts.

    Texts reference President Obama, LeBron James

    In addition to disparaging blacks, Hispanics and Indians, Lai used coded language to talk about gay officers, according to a source, and made a blanket statement impugning residents of the city's largely minority and low-income Tenderloin district.
    "They're all drug dealers in the TL," his text stated.
    The officer also referred to a draft of an official incident report as "a story I wrote today."
    The messages, sent in 2014 and 2015, were discovered as part of an SFPD probe into a sexual assault allegation against Lai made by a woman last year. Prosecutors declined to file rape charges in the case, citing insufficient evidence.
    Chicago PD accused of ins utional racism

    Lai has since been charged with multiple misdemeanor counts of illegally accessing DMV computers for a non-official purpose. He is scheduled to be arraigned on May 3rd.

    Prosecutors recently turned over the text messages to the San Francisco Public Defender's office, which is representing a defendant in a case in which Lai was involved. Evidence of biased at udes could be used to undermine the officer's credibility and result in cases being dismissed. San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi provided the texts to CNN at the request of reporters.
    In the messages, Lai makes a disparaging joke about President Obama and says he hates basketball player LeBron James.
    "F--- that nig," he says.

    Such language could add to ongoing tension between the police and members of San Francisco's African American community, some of whom have called for Suhr to resign in the wake of the controversial police killing of a black man armed with a knife last December. The shooting remains under investigation.
    Fast facts: Controversial police encounters
    Lai, who was identified as Chinese by his attorney, makes several references to "hock gwai," apparently a misspelled reference to the Cantonese "hak gwai," a derogatory phrase for African Americans.
    In a series of texts sent last June he describes an incident involving a "bunch of hock gwais shooting each other."
    "Sprained my ankle over these barbarians," he says.
    One of the suspects "went to the hospital after he got shot lol," the officer texted.
    "Too bad none of them died," he added. "One less to worry about."


    The texts disparaged against blacks, Hispanics, Indians, gays and poor people.
    More than one officer involved
    In another exchange referencing African Americans, Lai wrote: "They're like a pack [of] wild animals on the loose."
    The exchange happened during a night of civil unrest in Baltimore following thedeath of Freddie Gray. Gray, an African American, died after suffering head and neck injuries in the back of a police van.
    Baltimore faces its 'original sin' a year after riots

    Lai used coded language to describe an encounter with a sergeant at the department's Taraval station.
    "Passive aggressive 528," he wrote, using the numeric code for a fire call. The number is used to describe gay officers as "flames or flaming," according to the source.
    The names of most of the people trading texts with Lai are blacked out or listed as "unknown" in the do ents obtained by CNN.
    Opinion: Racism deeply embedded in our psyche
    At least two exchanges appear to involve one or more police officers. In one exchange, Lai and a fellow texter discuss running into one another at a police station and dealing with a "528" sergeant. In another, a person texting Lai described being in an "on-duty" accident that occurred in 2015.
    "Some dumb Asian chick driving for Uber didn't look and changed lanes right into my car," the texter said.
    Three of four officers implicated in the texting scandal with Lai are no longer with the department, said Officer Albie Esparza, a police spokesman. A fourth officer is facing disciplinary charges, Esparza said.
    "We're going to be better served without them," Suhr said.
    Texts discovered by accident
    The SFPD's first texting scandal occurred last year when a federal prosecutor filed court papers detailing racist and phobic texts made by former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger, one of three officers convicted of stealing money and drugs from the residents of low-rent Tenderloin hotels.
    The texts were made public in support of a motion to put Furminger in jail in advance of his then-impending prison sentence.
    They were discovered as part of a federal corruption probe into the officers. Fourteen officers, including a captain, were implicated in sending or receiving such texts. Suhr attempted to fire eight of those officers, but was barred from doing so after a judge determined he waited too long to initiate disciplinary proceedings. The city has appealed the judge's decision.
    Public Defender Adachi, whose office released hotel surveillance footage of Furminger and other officers' alleged crimes on YouTube, prompting the federal investigation, noted that text messages discovered in that case—and in Lai's—were discovered by accident.
    Adachi said it made him wonder what other SFPD officers are texting about that has not come to light because they've yet to be accused of a crime.
    "What are the chances of two officers being arrested...and there's racists texts on [their phones]?" he said. "I don't know what the odds would be in Vegas."
    Singled out officer 'extremely hurt'
    Yulanda Williams, an African American sergeant who was singled out by name and called a racial slur in the first texting scandal, said she was "extremely hurt" by what happened.

    "It made me wonder what must I do as a black woman to prove that I'm worthy of wearing the same blue uniform" as her fellow officers, she said.
    Williams, president of a minority police officers' association called Officers for Justice, said she was concerned not only for herself.
    "I was also concerned that it could hinder our ability to be able to hire officers of color when they see and hear of others being treated that way," she told CNN in a recent interview.

    Without revealing the contents of the texts, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon announced last last month that a new round of racist and phobic messages had been discovered as part of the sexual assault probe of Lai.
    The first texting scandal prompted a review of some 1,600 cases for evidence of biased policing by the 14 officers implicated, Gascon said. Ultimately, 13 cases were dismissed due to concerns about the officers.

    'A good old boys network'

    The current texting investigation stemming from Lai's case involves several other officers, including a lieutenant. It could result in hundreds more cases being reviewed, Gascon said.
    Like Adachi, Gascon stressed the accidental nature of the discovery of the texts in both cases. He also accused the police department of being slow to address the problem in both instances.
    In an interview with CNN last week, Gascon said he has concluded two things about the police department he once ran.
    "No. 1: There's a substantial number of people within the organization that are racist," he said. "And No. 2: There's a culture that has allowed those people to thrive and survive and even promote within that environment."
    Suhr said he did not want to "get into it" with Gascon who he succeeded as chief, but he noted that "every one of these officers I've contended with were there when he was the chief of police."
    Gascon likened the leadership of the SFPD's union to police in Alabama and Mississippi in the 1950s.
    "They would probably feel right at home," he said. "It's a good old boys network that does everything they can to protect the status quo."
    Martin Halloran, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, did not return a call or email seeking comment.
    Gascon, who in addition to serving as the SFPD chief for more than a year, spent most of his career at the LAPD -- a department that has seen its own share of scandal.
    Even after decades in law enforcement, Gascon said, he was stunned by the contents of the text messages he's read.
    "I never in a million years would have dreamt that those kind of conversations would go on between San Francisco police officers," he said.
    He said officers should not be allowed to engage in such talk, even in private.
    "I would say OK if you're a plumber, if you're a carpenter," he said. "But if you're somebody that actually gets to put people in jail or in worst case conditions actually take somebody's life from them, and do so lawfully, you don't get to be a racist."
    Adachi, the public defender, said he was concerned that a perceived lack of accountability could lead officers to believe there are no consequences for misconduct in the SFPD.

    'R U READING THIS IA?'

    Lai sent some of his texts after the first scandal had made headlines. He discussed what investigators would be able to find with a search warrant and suggested that deleting an app could cover his tracks.
    At one point he made what appeared to be a joking reference to being the subject of an internal affairs investigation.
    "R U READING THIS IA?" he texted.
    Then, in August of 2015, as investigators obtained search warrants in pursuit of the sexual assault investigation, Lai sent this ominous message to an unknown recipient:
    "This is my drop phone," Lai wrote, borrowing a term drug dealers used to describe disposable phones for conducting illicit business.
    "Don't contact me or answer any calls/texts from my normal cell until further," the text said.


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    the disease known as white supremacy is in our police forces and tainting those who are supposed to protect and uphold the values of justice.

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    the disease known as white supremacy is in our police forces and tainting those who are supposed to protect and uphold the values of justice.
    That dude looks Asian to me, Trill.

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    That dude looks Asian to me, Trill.
    he's wannabe white supremacist/racist.

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    That dude looks Asian to me, Trill.
    You don't have to be white to participate in white supremacy

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