A high school newspaper has exposed how state police quoted Adolf Hitler

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

and advocated violence in a training manual

In Kentucky, a high school newspaper obtained slides exposing how the state police force used Adolf Hitler quotes in their training sessions for recruits.

Students working on the Manual RedEye, the newspaper for Louisville's duPont Manual High School, published exclusive slides a local attorney obtained through a public records request and shared with the publication on Friday.

In the slides, reported the RedEye, recruits are told to "meet violence with greater violence" and be a "ruthless killer" with "a mindset void of emotion."

One slide then goes on to quote Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic manifesto: "The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/high-school-newspaper-exposed-state-165412090.html

[dalton99a]

1. White supremacists have infiltrated police across the U.S.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-police-report
White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says
A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and racist militant activities in more than a dozen states
Sam Levin in Los Angeles @SamTLevin
Thu 27 Aug 2020 10.13 EDT

White supremacist groups have infiltrated US law enforcement agencies in every region of the country over the last two decades, according to a new report about the ties between police and far-right vigilante groups.

In a timely new analysis, Michael German, a former FBI special agent who has written extensively on the ways that US law enforcement have failed to respond to far-right domestic terror threats, concludes that US law enforcement officials have been tied to racist militant activities in more than a dozen states since 2000, and hundreds of police officers have been caught posting racist and bigoted social media content.

The report notes that over the years, police links to militias and white supremacist groups have been uncovered in states including Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.

Police in Sacramento, California, in 2018 worked with neo-Nazis to pursue charges against anti-racist activists, including some who had been stabbed, according to records.

And just this summer, German writes, an Orange county sheriff’s deputy and a Chicago policeman were caught wearing far-right militia logos; an Olympia, Washington, officer was photographed posing with a militia group; and Philadelphia police officers were filmed standing by while armed mobs attacked protesters and journalists.

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[TomVilmer]

8. Misquoted by a victim of the Killology cult

The slides appears to draw heavily from nationally-known police trainer Dave Grossman, who delivers lectures to police forces nation-wide on his theory of “killology”.

The worst quote is: “The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence”, and the guy who made the slide must have believed it to be of Adolf Hitler, like most of the Internet does. It might be, but it is not in this form from Hitler's famous book "Mein Kamp".

UPDATE: But if I seach in the German original, I can find it in chapter V: “In der ewig gleichmäßigen Anwendung der Gewalt allein liegt die allererste Voraussetzung zum Erfolge.” Returning to the translation, it is : "Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success." This does in no way make it better. And now I again know to much of this sh*t.

On the same slide, equally quoted from the Internet is a bit by somebody called Albert Einstein: “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”. And no, this was never said by Einstein...

[stopdiggin]

2. Times covering the same

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/us/kentucky-state-police-hitler.html

- snip - The lesson appears to be at least partially in line with “warrior training,” a controversial practice that often begins during basic training in academies and is modeled on military boot camp, which many police departments embrace. Many of the nation’s police academies and departments have long emphasized a warrior mentality, experts have said, with officers trained for conflict and equipped with the gear and weapons of modern warfare. Critics have said the specialized training can lead officers to believe they are under constant threat of being harmed and can intensify encounters with civilians.

- snip - The quotations attributed to Hitler, the genocidal leader of Nazi Germany, and Lee, the Confederate general, are included among 33 slides that were shown to cadets in the Kentucky State Police Academy as part of a slide show entitled “The Warrior Mindset.”

“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence,” reads one quotation attributed to Hitler, who is quoted more than anyone in the training document.

this is some pretty sick sh*t -- but is completely consistent with elements of "police training" throughout the U.S.

[Blue Owl]

3. K&R

[Stuart G]

4. K and R, Thank You for Posting This.

[AleksS]

5. Can you imagine Andy Griffith going through this?

Mayberry might not have been perfect, but it got policing done right. (For a fictional town, that is.)


I miss the days when everyone agreed that Nazis were the bad guys.

[rickyhall]

7. Can you imagine what Jack Webb would say?

This is the exact opposite of Dragnet & Adam 12, who never shot anybody in the back or used too many bullets or murder like so many of today's cops. Today's cops are more like what some of us called "Pigs" in the '60s due their violence & brutality. I remember how they treated people of color and "longhairs" like me and my friends "back in the day."

[ancianita]

6. The heart of white supremacy is enforcing that supremacy through violence.

The violent believe that their use of it makes them superior humans. They've hidden behind uniforms, but if they base their violence on their race superiority, they are setting themselves up to learn from the rest of the world that their time is over. One way or another. The easy way or the hard way.