Inside KKK murder plot: FBI informant infiltrated klan to foil murder

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : 'White supremacist groups have historically engaged in strategic efforts to infiltrate and recruit from law enforcement,' said an FBI document released by a congressional committee in September, about four months before the Capitol riots.
51% : In the intelligence assessment, written in 2006, the FBI said some in law enforcement were volunteering 'professional resources to white supremacist causes with which they sympathize.'
47% : These groups´ efforts to infiltrate law enforcement have been documented repeatedly in recent years and called an 'epidemic' by legal scholars.
40% : Troubling tale raises questions about the prevalence of white supremacists in law enforcement
37% : The very existence of a plot to murder a black man by Ku Klux Klan members working in law enforcement evokes past tragedies like the 1964 'Mississippi Burning' case, where three civil rights workers were slain by klansmen.
36% : Despite repeated examples, white supremacists who are fired from law enforcement jobs after being discovered can often find jobs with other agencies.

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