Who funded the team of researchers?
From the article:
The announcement comes as a local law firm hired by the city continues to investigate the social media posts of more than 300 Philadelphia police officers identified in a database from the Plain View Project, made public June 1.The posts in question were uncovered by a team of researchers who spent nearly two years looking at the personal Facebook accounts of police officers from Arizona to Florida. They found officers bashing immigrants and Muslims, promoting racist stereotypes, identifying with right-wing militia groups and glorifying police brutality.
A multi-year investigation by a non-profit group Plain View Project, resulting in the hiring of an outside law firm to do the investigating.
Someone has it out for the Philly PD.
Yes, that is the interesting, but unanswered question.
The team is The Plain View Project:
The Plain View Project was founded by Emily Baker-White, an attorney and graduate of Harvard Law School. She told CNN the idea came from something she saw during her fellowship at the Federal Community Defender Office in Philadelphia.My guess is she plans on using the research in a bunch of "civil-rights" lawsuits.