Right-wing extremists in the Chicago Police Department–The Marshall Project

 The names of at least 27 Chicago police officers appeared in a leaked list of members of the far-right Oath Keepers group. Police officials have failed to aggressively investigate or discipline officers with ties to white supremacist groups. The problem extends to other officers across Illinois. CHICAGO SUN-TIMES/WBEZ/ORGANIZED CRIME AND CORRUPTION PROJECT 

More: It wasn’t always this way. Fifty-five years ago, police officials moved swiftly to root out a group of officers who had privately pledged their allegiance to the Ku Klux Klan. CHICAGO SUN-TIMES/WBEZ

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