cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4475730

An anonymous group of hackers calling themselves the “puppygirl hacker polycule” leaked more than 8,500 files from the private first responder training company Lexipol on Tuesday, as The Daily Dot first reported. The data breach includes thousands of police department policy manuals and training documents from across the U.S., as well as emails, phone numbers, physical addresses, and other sensitive information pertaining to Lexipol staff.

Many of the documents leaked by the puppygirl polycule this week, marked from a range of separate police departments across the U.S., contained matching language about policies such as use-of-force protocols; several reviewed by Them included identical “Code of Ethics” pages, each ending with a religious vow that a police officer will “dedicat[e] myself before God to my chosen profession.”

Police in Culver City, CA adopted a Lexipol manual in 2017 that encouraged police to use “lack of English proficiency” as a reason to detain suspected undocumented immigrants, despite previously declaring itself a “sanctuary city” the same year.