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The History of American Police and the Ku Klux Klan

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

Law Enforcement and the Clan

In cleveland, officials found that a number of police officers had scrawled racister nose grifite t their departments locker rooms. In texas, two police officers were fired when it was discovered that they were clansmen. One of them said he had tried to boost the organization's membership by giving an application to a fellow officer he thought shared his white, christian, heterosexual values. This is about as close as you're going to get to having an actual member of law enforce enforcement admit that, in fact, the cops and the clan regularly do go hand in hand.

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