I remind my grandkids all the time that they have to be careful what they post on social media, but someone who made it through the police academy shouldn't have to be told! I swear, at least once a week I read or hear about someone else losing their job because of some stupid thing they posted on Facebook! There's no way to know how many people haven't gotten a job they really wanted because of what they posted, text or pics!

Do they REALLY THINK that sh@t is private?

I have been shocked at some of the things that some of my FB friends post. I think us older folks don't post much personal stuff, but some of the younger people almost use FB as a diary. Of course, I am generalizing here, not all young people do that, and not all older people worry about their privacy.

although it's constantly being filled with other people's postings that have little, if anything, to do with me. I feel like I'm just the caretaker of a Facebook dumping ground.

I'm sure he's violated more than one law given his history on the force.

I say, consider due process, for all. Starting with Lentz.

I'm all for an investigation into that police department. To what extent is this merely offensively overt expression of the tough-guy 'hard-ass' image promoted, and tacitly approved of, by most of that fraternal order?

We really have little idea what most of his peers and the balance of his immediate supervisors on the force think about profiling and stereotyping based on personal prejudices.

His firing was not because his comments suggested his policing was impaired by racial bias. It is because those comments brought another embarrassment on top of a record of being reckless with his comments.

Was he really the one bad apple, or merely much less careful than many other apples fermenting in that basket?

When prosecution applies it's selective power, what emerges? Police that don't have such attitudes or police whose comments are kept among the brotherhood who shares the sentiments?

Yes, that police department did just that. Good news.

These bigots have no business with a badge and deadly weapons.

Was this in Elgin Illinois?