Racist Posts By Cops Trigger Investigations, Transfers & Gun Confiscations

The Plain View Project published the findings and created a database of active and former Police Officers public Facebook posts and comments from Police Officers from several departments across the country.

The Departments were Philadelphia, PA, Dallas, TX, St. Louis, MO, Phoenix, AZ, York, PA, Twin Falls, ID, Denison, TX and Lake County, FL.  As a result, many of the departments are taking these officers off the street until an investigation is completed.

Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams took immediate action.  Commissioner Richard Ross apparently has followed suite taking decisive action against some of the worst offenders.

The findings of this report has given the Philadelphia Police Department another black eye in the national spotlight.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is allegedly compiling a new list, and checking it twice, to add this new wave of officers to the “Do Not Call” list.

Corporal Robert Pawlowski received discipline after famously referring to an African American Captain using the racial slur “Nigger” while at the Fraternal Order of Police.

Sergeant Mark Palma was kicked out of the Crime Scene Unit and his gun was taken along with Sergeant Joseph Przepiorka, reportedly put in the Auto Pound.  Przepiorka was none too happy about having his gun confiscated.

Officer Milord Celce had his gun yanked.  However; the list included Inspectors, Captains, Lieutenants, Sergeants and Corporals as well.  The assignments of some of these supervisors are just as disturbing as the comments.

Officer Reuban Ondarza and Kevin Lewis have also been yanked off the streets.

Inspector D.F. Pace is assigned to the Police Board of Inquiry (PBI).  The PBI is the disciplinary board responsible for making disciplinary decisions for officers accused of misconduct.  That’s really rich coming someone who sits in judgment of others while exercising extremely poor judgment himself.

A common theme for some of the Officers who were posting some of the offensive materials is a history of complaints.

Pace puts in his Linked In profile “As an attorney and Police Inspector in the nation’s fourth largest police department , D. F. Pace focuses on balancing constitutional protections and civil rights with public safety. He currently heads the Philadelphia Police Department’s Police Board of Inquiry.”

So the guess is that Pace is balancing his freedom of speech with the Philadelphia Police Departments’ mission and brand.

Captain Adam Friedman is a Captain in the 8th District.  Ironically, in an interview he states “We want to increase social media, too. We’re working on that, having a Facebook page and Twitter for the district.”  Apparently, he has attained this goal in his personal life.

Also included on the list is George Mullen, Frank Palumbo, Javier Rodriguez, Jarreau Thomas, and Edward Thompson.

A private law firm will be handling the investigation.

Inspector D F Pace

Captain Adam Friedman

Captain Frank Palumbo

Sergeant Mark Palma

Officer Daniel Leone: “Anti-Italian” Sentiment

Daniel Leone has filed a federal lawsuit in which he asserts there is an “anti-Italian” sentiment in the Philadelphia Police Department.  Leone is a bike cop in the Center City District.

Leone asserts he was retaliated against after he filed an official complaint about cops calling him a racial slur.  The slur was “dago”.  Leone says he reported the incidents up through the chain of command and nothing was done to stop it.

It should be noted that Frank Palumbo was the Captain in the Center City District.  Leone states he was denied “requested schedule changes that would be more accommodating to his life outside of work and that those requests have been denied”.  Really?  How many cops understand that this is one of the “undesirable aspects” of the job that is outlined in the job description for Police Officer.

Ironically, in 2002, Leone admitted to Leone saying to another cop, who was Puerto Rican “I smell stinking Mexican,”  In fact, he had Officer Nelson Aviles arrested for pulling a gun on him because of the remark.  Aviles was later acquitted.
Chief Inspector Tony Boyle said there is an “anti-white” sentiment among minority officers.

Officer Stacey Gonzalez and Officer Pavel Reznik who were assigned to the 9th District filed a federal lawsuit in which they assert there is an “anti-Semitic” sentiment in the Philadelphia Police Department.

Reznik, who emigrated from Russia to the United States, asserts he discovered a “SS” symbol scratched in a locker in the lawsuit. 

Officer Gonzalez

 

Chief Inspector Tony Boyle

So now we have the “anti-Italian” sentiment.  Which joins the “anti-White” sentiment.  And we know of the lawsuit filed by the Guardian Civic League along with Staff Inspector Debra Frazer, Captain Laverne Vann, then Lieutenant (now Sergeant) Anthony Burton and Officer Shamal Bryant, citing the “anti-Black” sentiment that they accuse Boyle of orchestrating in the Narcotics Bureau.