In this spring 2018 issue of the Law Enforcement Intelligence Brief, we review once again the Southern Poverty Law Center and its continued attack against responsible Americans and many of the traditional organizations they describe as hate groups. The SPLC has for many years used its enormous resources to publish and distribute an annual report that is sent to many law enforcement organizations throughout the country, including the FBI.

This report describes pro-life activists, Second Amendment supporters, and those involved in constitutional organizations as somehow destructive and hateful. The SPLC has become so discredited that many in law enforcement no longer receive to its annual report. While this appears to be good news, nevertheless the SPLC continues to label those who are politically conservative as hateful individuals and groups.

On those occasions when police officers are required to use deadly force to protect their lives and the lives of others, demonstrations of people carrying professionally printed signs often follow. Such was the case recently in New York City, where a man pointing what appeared to be a handgun at police was shot and killed. Within a short period of time, professionally printed signs condemning the New York Police Department were being carried by the demonstrators.

An editorial in the New York Post pointed to the fact that those who organ­ized the demonstrations and provided the signs were Marxist revolutionaries who move quickly to march against the police at every opportunity. It is notable that these very same signs can be seen in many parts of the country in demonstrations against law enforcement, and it should be evident that the goal of these revolutionary groups is to prevent local police from doing their job.

Police officers across the country are finding their job far more difficult, in many cases, due to this anti-police rhetoric. Recently, several police officers have been deliberately assassinated simply because they were wearing their uniforms. Their names will appear in the Law Enforcement Charitable Foundation’s Intelligence Brief, listed among our honored dead.

One of our goals at LECF is to provide information to law enforcement that they might otherwise not have access to. We will continue to support our local police at every opportunity, and keep them independent.

Sincerely,

James F. Fitzgerald

President, Law Enforcement
Charitable Foundation, Inc.,
Former Newark, N.J., detective
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