Pagans everywhere should be aware of two disturbing trends connected with the area of law enforcement that have been growing in the last year in the United States. First of all, a number of fundamentalist Christians doing education for law enforcement personnel have been spreading false information about Paganism. Many have falsely linked Neo-Paganism with criminal Satanic activity in seminars they present and in written materials they have been circulating among police departments. Several national cult crime networks have carried misinformation about Paganism in their publications . . . .
We at Circle Sanctuary have so far addressed this problem situation in several ways. First of all, we have met with the County Sheriff and other local law enforcement officials in this area to introduce ourselves and to make sure that they understand that the Wiccan religion is not connected with Satanism or Satanic crime.
