Ballard Spahr is working with the Philadelphia Law Department to investigate allegedly racist comments and messages posted by Philadelphia police on Facebook, The Legal has learned.

News broke in early June of a project that reviewed the Facebook accounts of thousands of police officers. The review resulted in an online database of posts from officers that included racially charged, misogynistic and Islamophobic content. According to the BuzzFeed article that broke the news about The Plain View Project, 328 Philadelphia police officers were identified as having allegedly posted problematic content.

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