A Seattle police officer, writing in his union newspaper, disparages the anti-bias training the city employees are required to take, and calls city leaders a "quaint socialist cabal." Under the headline, "Just Shut Up and Be a Good Little Socialist," Officer Steve Pomper calls the city's 5-year-old Race and Social Justice Initiative an attack on American values and calls its supporters "the enemy."
He expresses contempt for a "Perspectives in Profiling" class that department members were required to take last year to raise awareness about racial profiling, and he questions at what point he and other officers should say "Hell no!" to the city's attempts to "indoctrinate SPD in social justice culture."
Pomper joined the Seattle force in 1992, and he has written regularly for The Guardian.
In 2009, he earned $96,696, according to city records. He has his own website, with a picture of him on a motorcycle and a headline that identifies him as "Author/Libertarian/Cop." He blogs regularly about police and political issues from his home in Brier, Snohomish County.
Pomper referred an inquiry about The Guardian article to the police department.
City Council member Bruce Harrell said he was concerned Pomper's article labeled city leaders who endorsed the city's Race and Social Justice Initiative as "the enemy."
Harrell said, "If you have an 'enemy mentality,' it affects how you do your job. He (Pomper) doesn't understand that the playing field is not equal yet. Injustice clearly exists."
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