Antisemitism, racism, and taught police violence

A high school newspaper broke this story. I hadn't heard about this when it came out in December. 

In Kentucky, Student Journalists Uncover Nazi Imagery In Police Training 

The KY State Police use a training that contains several Hitler quotes promoting violence. Several thoughts on this. 

1. This training and mindset is exactly the reason that the movement to defund the police and rebuild our departments from scratch exists. 

KY is literally training its entire State Police to be "bad apples".

2. The fact that the KSP stood by the presentation completely is exactly the reason that the movement to defund the police and rebuild our departments from scratch exists. 

KY is literally training its entire State Police to be "bad apples".

3. They estimate there are at least 120 troopers (likely many more - they haven't gotten confirmation yet) on the job who were trained with these materials through 2013. How many years will it take until they are all off the job? Decades. 

And how many will have been mentors to younger officers coming up? And how long will those troopers be on the job?  

How many will leave the KSP and move on to other departments around the country? 

4. The fact that this was taken to "professional" media and they weren't interested in doing a story is exactly the reason that the movement to defund the police and rebuild our departments from scratch exists. 

KY is literally training its entire State Police to be "bad apples".

5. It took a high school newspaper to stop all of this. Kudos to these kids and to their advisor. But that just speaks to the acceptance of all of this.

6. The KY Dept of Criminal Justice Training teaches that Jews are responsible for "American opioid crisis, that Las Vegas casinos are “run by Jewish gangsters” and that in Hollywood, Jewish people “are endlessly glorified among other mind-control agendas working hand-in-hand with the U.S. government.” 

Yet none of this has made national news anywhere that I've seen. 

You all wonder why Jews live "on the coasts". You like to use that against us. Call us elitist. And so many other disgusting pejoratives. If you are a Jew living in the South I truly admire you. I know some southern cities have fairly large Jewish populations. 

But this. 

This Kentucky fried antisemitism is why I choose to live on the coast. 

Why, as I plan for my retirement, I would rather pay more taxes, pay more for housing, pay more for goods & services than move somewhere that has a lower cost of living. 

And yes. I acknowledge the privilege of being able to say and do that. But I already live in a city filled with inherently ignorant and blatantly antisemitic people. Where I've been told "we don't get too many of 'your kind' here". Where I've been called a kike in the Target parking lot.  I'm not interested in finding a new place to start that all over. 

This story on the KSP training is the story the media should be covering when they clutch their pearls over the phrase "defund the police". This is the story to cover when we about violence in PDs all over the country. When we talk about the inherent and taught racism, misogyny,  antisemitism, and violence in LE training.

The data are there. The illustrative examples are there. Can we please stop clutching our pearls over "defund the police" and start acknowledging and fixing the damn problems in policing? 

There are so many out there who have done a far better job than I ever could, so I don't need to discuss actual tactics. I don't claim to be an expert. 

But the experts are out there. Center their solutions. 

Stop pretending there are a few bad apples. Start quoting the entire phrase:  A few bad apples spoil the whole bunch.

We don't have a few bad apples. We are the ones planting the whole damn bad orchard.