# Police Posting Racist, Bullying, Homophobic Posts On Social Media: Is This A Thing Outside the US?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 2, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-posting-racist-bullying-homophobic-posts-on-social-media-is-this-a-thing-outside-the-us/834902 "2019-06-02T00:36:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-posting-racist-bullying-homophobic-posts-on-social-media-is-this-a-thing-outside-the-us/834902/1 "2019-06-02T00:36:07Z")

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[This article](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilyhoerner/police-facebook-racist-violent-posts-comments-philadelphia) posits that an alarming percentage of police officers with public social media presences post racist, bullying, homophobic, etc. posts. It also offered some rather shocking examples.

Is this a problem outside of the United States?

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**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-posting-racist-bullying-homophobic-posts-on-social-media-is-this-a-thing-outside-the-us/834902/2 "2019-06-02T05:15:24Z")

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Just google searching “Racist Police British Facebook” [gets you articles like this](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/secret-london-police-facebook-group-racist-150719094251292.html), so yeah I assume it’s a problem globally.