“At least 3,000 arrests in the past decade are under review in San Francisco in a widening scandal over how police officers allegedly wrote racist and homophobic text messages. San Francisco’s top prosecutor has impaneled a trio of retired, out-of-town judges to see if bias led to wrongful prosecutions or convictions in thousands of cases investigated by a total of 14 officers. Federal prosecutors revealed text messages among police officers including references to cross burnings and a suggestion that it would be OK to shoot a black person because it’s ‘not against the law to put an animal down.’ The task force is also investigating faulty DNA testing and prize-fighting of inmates in the county jail.”
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/08/us/san-francisco-police-texts/