- Our totally inane and amateur government:
“This diversion is not a small part of many of these agencies. It includes one in five US marshals (650 of 3,892), one in five FBI agents (2,840 of 13,700), half of DEA agents (2,181 of 4,620), over two-thirds of the ATF (1,778 of 2,572), and nearly 90 percent of Homeland Security Investigations (6,198 of 7,100).”
- These numbers help us understand how many Federal LEO are supportive of performing Kavanaugh Stops of brown people and renditioning them at scale. We probably want to know this.
- Kavanaugh Stops implies his foolery is historically his responsibility. These are Trump Stops, and his responsibility for them lies on his desk. We want to know much more than this.
- > Kavanaugh Stops implies his foolery is historically his responsibility.
That's an unfortunate implication. It hints that the holder is making assumptions without understanding the critical, nation-changing facets in play.
Kavanaugh's patently false characterization of these encounters are an important handle to the unethical SCotUS decisions that are key and core to these atrocities.
An ethical SCotUS would be continually thwarting the Whitehouse instead of enabling and empowering it. The SCotUS was truly the last bastion against degrading unconstitutional forces but it is captured and lost.
- The last bastion is not listed in the Constitution, it’s described in the Declaration of Independence.
- you mean enrollment is voluntary ?
- I wonder what the downstream effect of this diversion of law enforcement will be?
I'm assuming there will be less arrests, does that mean crime rates will go up? More cases will go unsolved?
With half of the DEA now focused on immigration, will that result in a flood of drugs coming into the US and a drop in prices?
- Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, what will happen once the immigration problem is "fixed"? That's always been the narrative that has been sold: the borders were "open", they are now "closed", and now we have to take some extreme action to correct things. Presumably this means there will be a time when enhanced enforcement is no longer necessary (the mere existence of uncaught immigrants doesn't define the need, if you look to COVID as an example of a resolution to point where the emergency passed)
- > Presumably this means there will be a time when enhanced enforcement is no longer necessary
No agency tasked with alarm-based enforcement (ex: War on *) will ever silence the alarm. After the need (actual or otherwise) is passed, numbers are massaged and the original mandate is redefined into an expanded scope.
That's how it's been with past, more constitutional administrations. What we've seen recently is that national threats are crafted so that enemies of the admin are targeted.
For any excess capacity of force that ICE may have, that's where I expect to see it directed.
- The National Guard and Military will of course be available to step into a policing role, cities and borders.
- You act like we have real problems to solve. There are 2 million people in prison, most of those able bodied men. Abstract statistics like crime rates are just noise if anything with less police there will be less crime. Quality of life is poor regardless we are already a society that accepts fraud and crimes against humanity
15 points by ryan_j_naughton 7 hours ago | 11 comments