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Four Dallas police officers have been placed on administrative leave and more than 20 others are under internal investigations for their Facebook posts, police announced Friday.
Officers received letters notifying them of the investigations Friday, about a month after researchers with The Plain View Project published a database of years of public posts from eight police departments that the database’s creators said “could undermine public trust and confidence in police.”
The project, which prompted a swift response from some departments, collected posts from scores of active and retired Dallas officers. And of the more than 5,000 posts archived in the database, over 300 were from active Dallas cops. The posts included Islamophobic comments, racial stereotypes and jokes about police brutality.