After Reporters Find A Number Of Racist Emails, Top L.A. Law Enforcement Official Res

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  1. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Oh boy:

    After Reporters Find A Number Of Racist Emails, Top L.A. Law Enforcement Official Resigns | ThinkProgress

    "After the emails were published on Wednesday, McDonnell initially stood by his top staffer. “Everybody’s got their own take on humor,” he said, adding that the episode was “divisive and nonproductive” but that he didn’t plan to discipline Angel."

    "For his own part, the chief of staff apologized “if I offended anybody, but the intent was not for the public to have seen these jokes.”
     
  2. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Racist police? Oh, no! Who would have thought it?

    I love the "if I offended anybody" part. So, it's not offensive, but some people might have taken it that way. Oh, and the mistake was not that he did it, but that the public found out about it.

    How typical. Or, at least, not unusual.
     
  3. Neuhaus

    Neuhaus Well-Known Member

    I saw a recruiter get fired for forwarding a stupid joke. What a silly thing to end a career over.

    Of course, you could also not be a racist jackass and avoid the problem altogether...
     
  4. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    Yep, that's us; racist to the core, always looking to shoot unarmed black children. :rolleyes:

    On a serious note, it's beyond stupid to use work email for anything other than work-related things. I check mine about 2X per week just to clean out the Inbox of bulletins, I couldn't tell you the last time I actually composed a new message or forwarded anything.
     
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  5. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    With more than a million full-time peace officers on duty in the U.S., one imagines it is a tiny number. But the near-universal availability of recording devices has shown it is more significant than thought. It will settle down soon enough.
    I've worked for decades in the private, federal, military, and academic spaces. I've never, ever, been sent anything that would approach this kind of thing. Not even close. Who ARE these people?
     
  6. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Exactly! Dumb ass. If you are going to be racist, at least have the brains to be racist outside of the work place! :smile:
     
  7. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    The number ebbs & flows, but law enforcement in the US make about 10-14 million arrests every year. Compared to the number of videos that have surfaced (some of which are questionable, to say the least), that's quite a favorable ratio.

    My city email address is on the business cards I hand out to victims & witnesses, and I've found it useful for them to send me pictures or videos they took on their smart phones. However, I do nothing more than acknowledge the receipt and thank them for their cooperation in reply. I instantly delete any messages that aren't business related, and I'm trying to think if I've even ever composed an original message from that account. I don't believe I have.

    Related to that, one of our officers once received death threats from a chucklehead E-2 soldier who used his Army email account. A call to his HQ resulted in the division CSM calling the young lad into his office, and pinning his ears back for awhile. Needless to say, PV2 Snuffy was never heard from again.
     

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