Springfield police will begin screening new recruits to make sure they don’t have any ties to hate groups.
That’s according to the Faith Coalition for the Common Good. The group says Chief Ken Scarlette agreed to their recommendations in the aftermath of a recent incident where a Springfield cop resigned after revelations that he had anonymously posted racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic content on social media platforms.
The group says the department will ask future applicants if they have had any involvement with, supported, or marched with groups that promote the inferiority of certain people based on race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.
