One fired, one suspended, one retired, and one cleared after a blogger exposed officers’ racist, Islamophobic and derogatory Facebook posts last summer.
posted on Facebook by former and current San Jose Police Department officers, two of the four officers investigated have been disciplined — one was fired and the other suspended, law-enforcement sources have told the Bay Area News Group.
Those changes included barring speech “that adversely reflects upon the department” or “inhibits the department’s ability to operate efficiently and effectively.”ffered additional details, revealed here for the first time, about the status of the four officers who were placed on leave in the wake of the scandal. All but one of the officers either could not be reached or declined to comment for this story.
commemorative coin referring to San Jose’s police district L as “Stinkin’ Lincoln,” surrounded by the inscription, “To Hell and Back.” The district’s population is largely Vietnamese and Latino. “That’s not the department I joined,” he said in a May interview before moving out of state. “But I’m not bitter. It was the best experience of my life.”
Kalra credited some agencies including SJPD with already instituting the practice, but he wants to see it become mandatory across the state.
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