I've driven hundreds of extra miles per trip going around that damned state.
I lived in Idaho Falls (well within the majority Mormon area that extends farther North at least to Rexburg) and never had an issue, but I definitely knew I was not part of the club.
American Fork, UT is literally 10 miles from Brigham Young University, and BYU represents 1/4th of the state's bachelors degrees.
It's a bit like saying police officers in Italy are Catholic. I'd be more surprised if they weren't tbh.
(Disclaimer: I live near that area and also graduated from BYU.)
Mormons aren't implicated, but I fail to see how this can explain the behavior of the Oregon police.
https://academic.oup.com/california-scholarship-online/book/...
Why yes, 6 day old account, I would say the same in that scenario. Thanks for playing.
Someone recently told me that when he worked for the BLM, there was a lot of LDS folk, which reinforced my observation that they are overrepresented in federal jobs in general (I have no evidence for this, just several anecdotes). I assumed it is because they usually don't smoke marijuana, so they are more likely to be eligible. That abstract gave more compelling possibilities that I didn't think of, that don't seem conspiratorial, like the higher multilingual likelihood at concentrated places like BYU, making it a great spot for recruiting.
Does the article go into more detail on how they "corrupted" the FBI that is not easily explained by them simply being ideal FBI hires?
1. LDS members can be obligated to provide each other jobs where possible.
2. LDS members (especially of the same congregation) are obligated to not report on each other to non LDS authorities.
And these factors made it sort of an invasion, where after a couple of likely competent LDS members started to make towards the top of government hierarchies, they started ballooning these organisations with their compatriots. Theres been a heap of money spent changing the public perception of this towards "Oh actually Mormons make great public sector employees because they dont drink".
You wont find much for this outside of books usually from retired spooks or journalists who involve themselves in that area.
But the issues have occasionally spilled over to public notice.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/10/02/Former-FBI-agent-tes...
The sports authorities get my gambling losses.
If a few hockey players were in a crime I wouldn’t be spouting nonsense about hockey mafias. And that’s a cohort less than one on thousandth the size.