My take: If we can’t defund ICE until we take back one of the houses of congress, then the next best thing is to give them pointless security theater jobs.

Shoving as many hired ICE agents into Airport lines is a good thing for America right now.

  • NateNate60@lemmy.world
    6·
    22 hours ago

    Sidenote here: Has anyone noticed that the push in recent years to force law enforcement to wear body cameras has resulted in a rather large increase in the amount of body camera footage content on sites like YouTube? Don’t get me wrong, the body cameras are definitely a good thing, but a cottage industry starting around publishing people’s worst moments to the Internet as cheap entertainment certainly seems a bit crass to me.

    • solo@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      17 hours ago

      the body cameras are definitely a good thing

      I am not so sure about that tbh. Where I live (another continent) they are used by some sort of officers to patrol boarders. Whenever these officers do push-backs/kill immigrants/etc their cameras are never on.

      Th following article is more relevant to the US

      The history of police body cameras is more complex and troubling than we’ve been told

      With body cameras, law enforcement agencies could expand their surveillance capacity, mitigate police brutality lawsuits, create “highly controllable evidence” against the largely poor, largely Black citizens of whom police often seek to capture footage, and quell social unrest by creating “comprehensive digital archives” of attendees at protests for social change.