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CBS 12: Florida driver database hacked through compromised police credentials, state says. “Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles says an international cybercriminal organization breached a state driver-record database after gaining access through compromised credentials belonging to a Plant City Police Department user.”

DATE: September 15, 2026 at 06:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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TITLE: ICE arrests surged under Trump, but the share of those with criminal records plummeted

URL: https://www.psypost.org/ice-arrests-surged-under-trump-but-the-share-of-those-with-criminal-records-plummeted/

A new analysis of federal immigration enforcement indicates that while immigration arrests surged during both of Donald Trump’s presidencies, the proportion of those arrested who had actual criminal convictions dropped sharply. The research suggests a disconnect between the public narrative of targeting criminals and the reality of enforcement on the ground. The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly known as ICE, is the federal agency responsible for enforcing immigration laws within the interior of the United States. During the second Trump administration, officials announced an expansive immigration enforcement effort, repeatedly citing public safety and the need to remove individuals who commit crimes as the primary motivation.

However, prior evidence suggests that federal immigration crackdowns do not necessarily improve public safety. For instance, a study covered by PsyPost in 2024 found that stricter immigration enforcement policies during the first Trump administration produced no measurable change in immigrant arrest rates relative to non-immigrants in California and Texas.

Despite intense public debate over these policies, there has been little real-time analysis of how ICE actually conducts its interior arrests during periods of aggressive expansion. The research, led by Chloe N. East of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Caitlin Patler of the University of California, Berkeley, aimed to map out exactly who is being targeted, where arrests are happening, and what methods are being used.

To understand these patterns, the researchers analyzed administrative records from the Deportation Data Project covering more than 1.5 million ICE arrests made between October 2015 and March 2026. Because enforcement levels dropped to a ten-year low during the Biden administration due to the COVID-19 pandemic and temporary changes in ICE’s duties at the border, the researchers focused their comparison on the periods immediately surrounding the two Trump inaugurations. The first term window covered roughly December 2015 through March 2018, and the second term window covered December 2024 through March 2026.

The team looked at the total number of arrests, the geographic region where each arrest took place, and whether the arrested person had a criminal conviction of any kind. They also categorized the arrests by the specific method ICE used. The two primary methods analyzed were Law Enforcement Agency collaborative arrests and Community Arrests.

Law Enforcement Agency arrests happen when ICE takes custody of an individual who is already being held in a local or state jail or prison. Community Arrests occur when ICE officers apprehend people directly in their neighborhoods, homes, or workplaces. By breaking the data down this way, the researchers could see whether changes in who ICE was arresting were driven by a shift in their physical tactics.

The analysis showed that the scale of arrests increased massively under both administrations, but particularly during the second term. In the year before the first Trump inauguration, ICE averaged 304 arrests per day. This rose to 436 per day in the first 14 months of his first term, representing a 43 percent increase.

Before the second term, arrests were at a similar pre-inauguration baseline of 304 per day. But between January 2025 and March 2026, the volume surged to an average of 952 arrests per day. This represents a 214 percent increase compared to the prior year.

As the sheer number of arrests went up, the percentage of individuals with a criminal conviction went down. During the second term, the criminal conviction rate among those arrested by ICE fell to 34 percent. This was near the lowest point observed in the entire ten-and-a-half-year period the researchers studied.

The researchers also found a massive shift in how ICE operated on the ground during the second term. Community Arrests jumped from making up 17 percent of all apprehensions in the year prior to 47 percent between January 2025 and March 2026. This aggressive shift toward direct neighborhood enforcement did not happen during the first term.

Because Community Arrests generally involve fewer people with criminal convictions than jail-based arrests, the researchers wanted to know if this change in tactics explained the overall drop in the conviction rate. They found that the shift in method only explained about a quarter of the decline in the second term.

The remaining three-quarters of the drop happened because ICE was arresting fewer people with criminal records within both categories. Specifically, during the second term, the conviction rate fell by 10 percentage points during Community Arrests and 16 percentage points during Law Enforcement Agency arrests. This indicates a broad change in who is being targeted, independent of the method used.

The study also mapped out geographic differences across ICE’s 25 regional jurisdictions. In the second term, regions with steep spikes in jail-based arrests included El Paso, Miami, New Orleans, and San Antonio. In contrast, other regions saw sharp spikes in Community Arrests. These included areas like Boston, Chicago, Newark, Seattle, and all jurisdictions in California and New York.

The researchers note this pattern aligns with the administration’s stated goal of targeting so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, which are cities or states that limit local police cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Despite these stark regional differences in how arrests were carried out, the decline in the share of arrested individuals with criminal convictions was nearly universal across the country.

As with all research, there are a few things to keep in mind. The data relies on ICE’s own administrative records, which only capture people who are formally processed into the system. The analysis also focuses strictly on interior enforcement within the United States, meaning it does not account for apprehensions made by border agents at the physical border.

Additionally, the researchers point out that they cannot be certain why the conviction rate dropped specifically within jail-based arrests. It might be due to changes in how ICE prioritizes targets in jails, or it could be related to changes in local police practices that result in different populations ending up in local custody. Future research will need to explore these underlying mechanisms.

Finally, while the research provides a detailed picture of the early months of the second Trump administration, immigration policies and enforcement strategies can shift rapidly. Ongoing tracking will be needed to see if these patterns hold steady over the coming years and to understand their broader impact on immigrant communities.

The study, “ICE arrests, 2015–2026: Variation in targeting, method, and geography,” was authored by Chloe N. East, Caitlin Patler, and Elizabeth Cox.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/ice-arrests-surged-under-trump-but-the-share-of-those-with-criminal-records-plummeted/

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DATE: September 15, 2026 at 06:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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TITLE: ICE arrests surged under Trump, but the share of those with criminal records plummeted

URL: https://www.psypost.org/ice-arrests-surged-under-trump-but-the-share-of-those-with-criminal-records-plummeted/

A new analysis of federal immigration enforcement indicates that while immigration arrests surged during both of Donald Trump’s presidencies, the proportion of those arrested who had actual criminal convictions dropped sharply. The research suggests a disconnect between the public narrative of targeting criminals and the reality of enforcement on the ground. The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly known as ICE, is the federal agency responsible for enforcing immigration laws within the interior of the United States. During the second Trump administration, officials announced an expansive immigration enforcement effort, repeatedly citing public safety and the need to remove individuals who commit crimes as the primary motivation.

However, prior evidence suggests that federal immigration crackdowns do not necessarily improve public safety. For instance, a study covered by PsyPost in 2024 found that stricter immigration enforcement policies during the first Trump administration produced no measurable change in immigrant arrest rates relative to non-immigrants in California and Texas.

Despite intense public debate over these policies, there has been little real-time analysis of how ICE actually conducts its interior arrests during periods of aggressive expansion. The research, led by Chloe N. East of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Caitlin Patler of the University of California, Berkeley, aimed to map out exactly who is being targeted, where arrests are happening, and what methods are being used.

To understand these patterns, the researchers analyzed administrative records from the Deportation Data Project covering more than 1.5 million ICE arrests made between October 2015 and March 2026. Because enforcement levels dropped to a ten-year low during the Biden administration due to the COVID-19 pandemic and temporary changes in ICE’s duties at the border, the researchers focused their comparison on the periods immediately surrounding the two Trump inaugurations. The first term window covered roughly December 2015 through March 2018, and the second term window covered December 2024 through March 2026.

The team looked at the total number of arrests, the geographic region where each arrest took place, and whether the arrested person had a criminal conviction of any kind. They also categorized the arrests by the specific method ICE used. The two primary methods analyzed were Law Enforcement Agency collaborative arrests and Community Arrests.

Law Enforcement Agency arrests happen when ICE takes custody of an individual who is already being held in a local or state jail or prison. Community Arrests occur when ICE officers apprehend people directly in their neighborhoods, homes, or workplaces. By breaking the data down this way, the researchers could see whether changes in who ICE was arresting were driven by a shift in their physical tactics.

The analysis showed that the scale of arrests increased massively under both administrations, but particularly during the second term. In the year before the first Trump inauguration, ICE averaged 304 arrests per day. This rose to 436 per day in the first 14 months of his first term, representing a 43 percent increase.

Before the second term, arrests were at a similar pre-inauguration baseline of 304 per day. But between January 2025 and March 2026, the volume surged to an average of 952 arrests per day. This represents a 214 percent increase compared to the prior year.

As the sheer number of arrests went up, the percentage of individuals with a criminal conviction went down. During the second term, the criminal conviction rate among those arrested by ICE fell to 34 percent. This was near the lowest point observed in the entire ten-and-a-half-year period the researchers studied.

The researchers also found a massive shift in how ICE operated on the ground during the second term. Community Arrests jumped from making up 17 percent of all apprehensions in the year prior to 47 percent between January 2025 and March 2026. This aggressive shift toward direct neighborhood enforcement did not happen during the first term.

Because Community Arrests generally involve fewer people with criminal convictions than jail-based arrests, the researchers wanted to know if this change in tactics explained the overall drop in the conviction rate. They found that the shift in method only explained about a quarter of the decline in the second term.

The remaining three-quarters of the drop happened because ICE was arresting fewer people with criminal records within both categories. Specifically, during the second term, the conviction rate fell by 10 percentage points during Community Arrests and 16 percentage points during Law Enforcement Agency arrests. This indicates a broad change in who is being targeted, independent of the method used.

The study also mapped out geographic differences across ICE’s 25 regional jurisdictions. In the second term, regions with steep spikes in jail-based arrests included El Paso, Miami, New Orleans, and San Antonio. In contrast, other regions saw sharp spikes in Community Arrests. These included areas like Boston, Chicago, Newark, Seattle, and all jurisdictions in California and New York.

The researchers note this pattern aligns with the administration’s stated goal of targeting so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, which are cities or states that limit local police cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Despite these stark regional differences in how arrests were carried out, the decline in the share of arrested individuals with criminal convictions was nearly universal across the country.

As with all research, there are a few things to keep in mind. The data relies on ICE’s own administrative records, which only capture people who are formally processed into the system. The analysis also focuses strictly on interior enforcement within the United States, meaning it does not account for apprehensions made by border agents at the physical border.

Additionally, the researchers point out that they cannot be certain why the conviction rate dropped specifically within jail-based arrests. It might be due to changes in how ICE prioritizes targets in jails, or it could be related to changes in local police practices that result in different populations ending up in local custody. Future research will need to explore these underlying mechanisms.

Finally, while the research provides a detailed picture of the early months of the second Trump administration, immigration policies and enforcement strategies can shift rapidly. Ongoing tracking will be needed to see if these patterns hold steady over the coming years and to understand their broader impact on immigrant communities.

The study, “ICE arrests, 2015–2026: Variation in targeting, method, and geography,” was authored by Chloe N. East, Caitlin Patler, and Elizabeth Cox.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/ice-arrests-surged-under-trump-but-the-share-of-those-with-criminal-records-plummeted/

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DATE: September 15, 2026 at 06:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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TITLE: ICE arrests surged under Trump, but the share of those with criminal records plummeted

URL: https://www.psypost.org/ice-arrests-surged-under-trump-but-the-share-of-those-with-criminal-records-plummeted/

A new analysis of federal immigration enforcement indicates that while immigration arrests surged during both of Donald Trump’s presidencies, the proportion of those arrested who had actual criminal convictions dropped sharply. The research suggests a disconnect between the public narrative of targeting criminals and the reality of enforcement on the ground. The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly known as ICE, is the federal agency responsible for enforcing immigration laws within the interior of the United States. During the second Trump administration, officials announced an expansive immigration enforcement effort, repeatedly citing public safety and the need to remove individuals who commit crimes as the primary motivation.

However, prior evidence suggests that federal immigration crackdowns do not necessarily improve public safety. For instance, a study covered by PsyPost in 2024 found that stricter immigration enforcement policies during the first Trump administration produced no measurable change in immigrant arrest rates relative to non-immigrants in California and Texas.

Despite intense public debate over these policies, there has been little real-time analysis of how ICE actually conducts its interior arrests during periods of aggressive expansion. The research, led by Chloe N. East of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Caitlin Patler of the University of California, Berkeley, aimed to map out exactly who is being targeted, where arrests are happening, and what methods are being used.

To understand these patterns, the researchers analyzed administrative records from the Deportation Data Project covering more than 1.5 million ICE arrests made between October 2015 and March 2026. Because enforcement levels dropped to a ten-year low during the Biden administration due to the COVID-19 pandemic and temporary changes in ICE’s duties at the border, the researchers focused their comparison on the periods immediately surrounding the two Trump inaugurations. The first term window covered roughly December 2015 through March 2018, and the second term window covered December 2024 through March 2026.

The team looked at the total number of arrests, the geographic region where each arrest took place, and whether the arrested person had a criminal conviction of any kind. They also categorized the arrests by the specific method ICE used. The two primary methods analyzed were Law Enforcement Agency collaborative arrests and Community Arrests.

Law Enforcement Agency arrests happen when ICE takes custody of an individual who is already being held in a local or state jail or prison. Community Arrests occur when ICE officers apprehend people directly in their neighborhoods, homes, or workplaces. By breaking the data down this way, the researchers could see whether changes in who ICE was arresting were driven by a shift in their physical tactics.

The analysis showed that the scale of arrests increased massively under both administrations, but particularly during the second term. In the year before the first Trump inauguration, ICE averaged 304 arrests per day. This rose to 436 per day in the first 14 months of his first term, representing a 43 percent increase.

Before the second term, arrests were at a similar pre-inauguration baseline of 304 per day. But between January 2025 and March 2026, the volume surged to an average of 952 arrests per day. This represents a 214 percent increase compared to the prior year.

As the sheer number of arrests went up, the percentage of individuals with a criminal conviction went down. During the second term, the criminal conviction rate among those arrested by ICE fell to 34 percent. This was near the lowest point observed in the entire ten-and-a-half-year period the researchers studied.

The researchers also found a massive shift in how ICE operated on the ground during the second term. Community Arrests jumped from making up 17 percent of all apprehensions in the year prior to 47 percent between January 2025 and March 2026. This aggressive shift toward direct neighborhood enforcement did not happen during the first term.

Because Community Arrests generally involve fewer people with criminal convictions than jail-based arrests, the researchers wanted to know if this change in tactics explained the overall drop in the conviction rate. They found that the shift in method only explained about a quarter of the decline in the second term.

The remaining three-quarters of the drop happened because ICE was arresting fewer people with criminal records within both categories. Specifically, during the second term, the conviction rate fell by 10 percentage points during Community Arrests and 16 percentage points during Law Enforcement Agency arrests. This indicates a broad change in who is being targeted, independent of the method used.

The study also mapped out geographic differences across ICE’s 25 regional jurisdictions. In the second term, regions with steep spikes in jail-based arrests included El Paso, Miami, New Orleans, and San Antonio. In contrast, other regions saw sharp spikes in Community Arrests. These included areas like Boston, Chicago, Newark, Seattle, and all jurisdictions in California and New York.

The researchers note this pattern aligns with the administration’s stated goal of targeting so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, which are cities or states that limit local police cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Despite these stark regional differences in how arrests were carried out, the decline in the share of arrested individuals with criminal convictions was nearly universal across the country.

As with all research, there are a few things to keep in mind. The data relies on ICE’s own administrative records, which only capture people who are formally processed into the system. The analysis also focuses strictly on interior enforcement within the United States, meaning it does not account for apprehensions made by border agents at the physical border.

Additionally, the researchers point out that they cannot be certain why the conviction rate dropped specifically within jail-based arrests. It might be due to changes in how ICE prioritizes targets in jails, or it could be related to changes in local police practices that result in different populations ending up in local custody. Future research will need to explore these underlying mechanisms.

Finally, while the research provides a detailed picture of the early months of the second Trump administration, immigration policies and enforcement strategies can shift rapidly. Ongoing tracking will be needed to see if these patterns hold steady over the coming years and to understand their broader impact on immigrant communities.

The study, “ICE arrests, 2015–2026: Variation in targeting, method, and geography,” was authored by Chloe N. East, Caitlin Patler, and Elizabeth Cox.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/ice-arrests-surged-under-trump-but-the-share-of-those-with-criminal-records-plummeted/

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The FBI Doubles Down on Easing ‘Bestiality’ Hiring Standards

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/the-fbi-doubles-down-on-easing-bestiality-hiring-standards/

EFF: The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke. “When law enforcement and tech salespeople pitch ALPRs to city councils, they stick to a familiar script. They trumpet the technology, which is often provided by private companies like Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, or Axon, as an essential tool for solving high-stakes crimes, such as car jacking, […]

EFF: The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke. “When law enforcement and tech salespeople pitch ALPRs to city councils, they stick to a familiar script. They trumpet the technology, which is often provided by private companies like Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, or Axon, as an essential tool for solving high-stakes crimes, such as car jacking, […]

EFF: The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke. “When law enforcement and tech salespeople pitch ALPRs to city councils, they stick to a familiar script. They trumpet the technology, which is often provided by private companies like Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, or Axon, as an essential tool for solving high-stakes crimes, such as car jacking, […]

EFF: The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke. “When law enforcement and tech salespeople pitch ALPRs to city councils, they stick to a familiar script. They trumpet the technology, which is often provided by private companies like Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, or Axon, as an essential tool for solving high-stakes crimes, such as car jacking, […]

EFF: The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke. “When law enforcement and tech salespeople pitch ALPRs to city councils, they stick to a familiar script. They trumpet the technology, which is often provided by private companies like Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, or Axon, as an essential tool for solving high-stakes crimes, such as car jacking, […]

Prosecutors charge German-Ukrainian woman with aiding Russian intelligence

BERLIN — Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office said Monday it had filed charges against a German-Ukrainian woman suspected of…
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https://www.europesays.com/germany/90697/

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Who is Amrit Dalam, brother of CRPF jawan extradited from Moldova as front man of Jaggu Bhagwanpuria gang https://www.byteseu.com/2363338/ ##CrimeInPunjab ##CriminalNetwork ##GangNetwork #AmritpalSingh #Extradition #JagguBhagwanpuria #lawenforcement #Moldova #PunjabPolice #Terrorism

Florida Man Exposed Himself at Fast-Food Drive-Thru https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/7268/ #ChickFilA #ExposedHimself #exposing #FlaglerCounty #Florida #FloridaFood #guilty #LawEnforcement #local #LukeDudkewic #minor #PalmCoast #WhatsHappening

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‘Wheel of Fortune’ fires Jim Thornton amid pedophilia chat room scandal

“Wheel of Fortune” announcer Jim Thornton’s longtime tenure on the popular game show is officially over. A spokesperson…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/us/836889/

‘Wheel of Fortune’ fires Jim Thornton amid pedophilia chat room scandal

“Wheel of Fortune” announcer Jim Thornton’s longtime tenure on the popular game show is officially over. A spokesperson…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/719170/

The Painful Truth of Exactly How ICE’s New Shock Gloves Work

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/the-painful-truth-of-exactly-how-ice-new-shock-gloves-actually-work/

Common Dreams: New Database Documents Over 100 Cases of Cops Abusing Flock Surveillance Cameras. “A new database launched Wednesday that details more than 100 cases of alleged abuse by law enforcement officers using Flock Safety’s nationwide camera network is adding fresh urgency to the growing backlash against automated license plate readers.”

Associated Press: Russia accuses Telegram CEO Pavel Durov of aiding terrorism in its latest digital crackdown. “Russian authorities said Wednesday they had charged Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram, with aiding terrorism, the latest step by the Kremlin to bring the internet and digital communications under its control.”

University of New Hampshire: Bystander videos are ‘fundamentally changing how the news is made’. “Just weeks before [Alex] Pretti’s death, Renee Good was shot and killed by federal agents during Operation Metro Surge, a large-scale ICE deployment in Minnesota. In the Good case, too, bystander videos analyzed by professional journalists contradicted the government’s account of the incident.”

404 Media: Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People. “The contours of each story are much the same, with the police officer in question using their access to the system to repeatedly track a specific person over the course of weeks or months. The cases highlight the fact that Flock can be used to track the whereabouts of individual people, that police do not get a warrant in […]

Mississippi Today: Families of men killed or hurt by law enforcement urge Mississippi officials to stop blocking public records. “The families of four men who died or allegedly were beaten in encounters with Mississippi law enforcement gathered outside the state attorney general’s office Thursday to urge officials to stop denying them access to video capturing the incidents, years after they […]

Hoodline San Francisco: Berkeley’s Big-Ticket Police Misconduct Database Goes Quiet on Recent Cases. “The state-funded Police Records Access Project, a UC Berkeley-led effort promoted as a one-stop public archive of internal police misconduct files, is drawing heat after a review found its online portal has few entries from the most recent years. Critics warn that if cases from the last two […]

A quotation from Lincoln

   The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
   The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The first — that in relation to wrongs — embraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and non-performance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself.
   From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1854-07-01?), fragment on government

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CNN: Exclusive: DHS admits its website showcasing the ‘worst of the worst’ immigrants was rife with errors. “The Department of Homeland Security admitted that its website featuring what it calls the ‘worst of the worst’ arrested immigrants was rife with errors and changed the site this week after receiving questions from CNN about it.”

Prison Policy Initiative: Resource spotlight: Data projects tracking police misconduct, use of force, and employment histories. “The need for law enforcement transparency, oversight, and accountability has never been clearer. We highlight data projects that have helped document and investigate misconduct, as both data sources and as models for others who want to contribute to these collective […]

Civil Discoure – ICE Says It Doesn’t Need A Judicial Warrant – Joyce Vance

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

ICE Says It Doesn’t Need A Judicial Warrant

By Joyce Vance, Jan 21, 2026

It’s been a long time since we took a night off. I honestly can’t remember the last time. But tonight I’m going to turn in early, after a long day. Before I do that, I wanted to flag one development with ICE for you.

I also want to leave you with some reason for optimism. You may have seen the news that ICE has now surged agents to Maine, predominantly to the cities of Portland and Lewiston, where there are large Somali immigrant communities. This is an echo of the focus on the Somali community in Minnesota.

Tonight, close to 1,000 people joined the mighty Maine ACLU for training on their legal rights and non-violent protest. It was an honor to get to participate in it. When we talk about community building and supporting democracy, this is what it’s all about: people committed to standing up for their rights and for their neighbors’ rights. There is training across the country that you can participate in to better educate yourself about your right to protest peacefully.

Now, the development: The Associated Press is reporting that it has seen a memo ICE is using for internal agent training that asserts “sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant.” The Fourth Amendment, which protects people from unreasonable search and seizure, has always been understood to require a warrant signed by a judge, not an administrative warrant signed by a DHS employee to enter a private residence or private areas of a business.

This new policy stance might explain some of the incidents that have been reported in Minnesota, where agents have made forcible entry into homes to remove people and put them into deportation proceedings without a judicial warrant. This sounds like what might have been at work when agents forcibly entered the home of a Hmong man in Minnesota who has been an American citizen for decades, and according to his statement, declined to produce a warrant and claimed he was subject to removal before forcing him out into the freezing cold in his underwear. It turned out that they got it wrong and were forced to release him a few hours later.

The AP reported that they witnessed ICE officers ramming through the front door of the home of a Liberian man in Minneapolis on Jan. 11 with only an administrative warrant, wearing heavy tactical gear and with their rifles drawn, which could also be a result of the new policy.

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Who is Michael Fanone? From Trump Supporter to Vocal Critic.

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#MichaelFanone #TrumpSupporter #VocalCritic #CapitolRiots #PoliticalTransformation #LawEnforcement #CivicEngagement #Accountability #PoliticalChange #SocialJustice

WTTW: Inspector General Launches New Dashboard to Identify ‘Hot Spots’ of Police Misconduct. “The database, which includes only closed complaints, was designed to allow both police brass and Chicagoans to map the ties between officers accused of misconduct by creating a ‘social network analysis’ to identify ‘hot spots’ of misconduct, [Deborah] Witzburg said.”

Bắt giữ nhóm 4 đối tượng tại Thái Nguyên chuyên tàng trữ, mua bán trái phép vũ khí quân dụng. Cơ quan An ninh điều tra đang mở rộng điều tra.

#ThaiNguyen #SungDan #AnNinh #LawEnforcement #GunTrafficking #CrimeNews

https://vtcnews.vn/phat-hien-nhom-4-nguoi-lam-dai-ly-sung-dan-ar997228.html

Bắt giữ nhóm 4 đối tượng tại Thái Nguyên chuyên tàng trữ, mua bán trái phép vũ khí quân dụng. Cơ quan An ninh điều tra đang mở rộng điều tra.

#ThaiNguyen #SungDan #AnNinh #LawEnforcement #GunTrafficking #CrimeNews

https://vtcnews.vn/phat-hien-nhom-4-nguoi-lam-dai-ly-sung-dan-ar997228.html

NBC News: How a Reddit tipster cracked the Brown University and MIT shooting cases. “Having unleashed a multiagency manhunt — involving the Providence police, the FBI and a $50,000 reward — the clue investigators needed in the Brown University shooting was ultimately found not on a street corner but in a Reddit thread.”

Khởi tố Phạm Anh Cường (Thái Nguyên) sau khi bị kiểm tra ma túy, đã cầm dao truy đuổi và đe dọa tổ công tác. Hành vi chống người thi hành công vụ gây nguy hiểm, hiện đối tượng đã bị bắt giam.
#Crime #LawEnforcement #TháiNguyên #MaTúy #ChốngNgườiThiHànhCôngVụ #PhạmAnhCường

https://vietnamnet.vn/khoi-to-doi-tuong-cam-dao-duoi-cong-an-khi-bi-kiem-tra-ma-tuy-2470959.html

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/11/tuesday-november-18-2025/

https://youtube.com/shorts/GOa2T9TFHIs?si=CCBNkvr4sTWABzTn

First video of Derrick Groves being detained

Linktr.ee/562AlexD

#DerrickGroves #NewOrleansJailbreak #AtlantaPolice #USMarshals #LawEnforcement #CrimeNews #FugitiveCapture #JailEscape #TrueCrime #PoliceOperation #CriminalJustice #BreakingNews #NewsUpdate #LawAndOrder

#LawEnforcement's #SecretSurveillance of Defenders at #ThackerPass, Peehee Mu'huh

#LithiumAmericas of Canada plans huge man camp in Winnemucca

By @bsnorrell.blogspot.com , #CensoredNews, Updated Aug. 12, 2025

"The #BIA and #BLM were part of 10 agencies in a joint #terrorism task force stalking defenders of Peehee Mu-huh, Thacker Pass, new documents reveal. The surveillance intensified when #MyronDewey supported. The Nevada Sheriff said there could be 'another #StandingRock,' and called in a 'spin master' to discredit #WaterProtectors, as he had done at Standing Rock.

"#ProPublica and #NevadaIndependent expose the surveillance. Censored News tracks back on the timeline. Interior Sec. #DebHaaland's BIA was part of the joint terrorism task force targeting the defenders of Peehee Mu-huh."

Original story:
THACKER PASS, Nevada -- "While descendants of the survivors of the massacre of Paiutes at #PeeheeMuhuh struggled to protect the sacred remains from the digging of a lithium mine, owned by Lithium Americas on Canada -- law enforcement had a spider web of surveillance. The law enforcement surveillance of defenders of Peehee Mu'huh, Thacker Pass, began before
Myron Dewey was killed, and continued afterwards.

"ProPublica and Nevada Independent expose the spy trail of law enforcement and private security of Lithium Americas. The surveillance web of 10 agencies included the BIA, and a counter-terrorism task force.

"During a meeting in April of 2021, the sheriff met with a spinmaster who linked the resistance to Standing Rock. This was six months before Myron Dewey was killed when a truck driven by a mining
engineer [an employee of #LithiumAmericas] hit Myron head on.

"Myron was well known for his reporting and drone coverage at Standing Rock 2016--2017. Myron was livestreaming the day before he was killed near his home in #YombaNevada, Sept. 26, 2021. Myron was fighting the #USMilitary's expansion of the bombing range on his #Paiute homeland."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/07/law-enforcements-secret-surveillance-of.html

#JusticeForMyronDewey #PoliceState
#SecretSurveillance #ACAB
#IndigenousLand #IndigenousNews
#LandDefenders #StandWithStandingRock
#ProtectPeeHeeMuhuh
#DefendTheSacred #NoLithiumMining
#StopThackerPass #LithiumAmericas
#LithiumAmericasCanada
#LithiumMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #ReaderSupportedNews

UC Berkeley Journalism: A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records. “Public records about use of force and misconduct by California law enforcement officers — some 1.5 million pages obtained from nearly 500 law enforcement agencies — will now be searchable by the public for the first time thanks to a new […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/05/uc-berkeley-journalism-a-new-database-on-police-use-of-force-and-misconduct-in-california-makes-public-1-5-million-pages-of-once-secret-police-records/

A 9-year-old girl died after she was left unattended inside of a hot vehicle on Tuesday, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/local/2025/07/02/525458/9-year-old-girl-dies-after-being-left-unattended-inside-hot-car-in-galena-park-sheriff-says/

#HarrisCounty #Houston #LawEnforcement #Local #News #Police #Weather #GalenaPark #HarrisCountySheriffEdGonzalez #HarrisCountySheriffSOffice #HotVehicle #HoustonWeather

SCOTUS Says Family Can Sue Over Wrong-House Raids

The high court's 6-3 conservative majority has had plenty of chances to weigh in against these #WrongHouse#Raids. But for decades, the court has rejected several claims against #LawEnforcement officers, making it more difficult to bring cases like this one.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5430354/supreme-court-sue-wrong-house-raid

#LegalVictory #BlackMastodon

Nepal Police Allegedly Breached, Sensitive Data Appears for Sale Online https://dailydarkweb.net/nepal-police-allegedly-breached-sensitive-data-appears-for-sale-online/ #lawenforcement #CyberSecurity #DataBreaches #cyberattack #NepalPolice #databreach #government #allegedly #Nepal

Galveston County officials have approved temporary beach access restrictions during the upcoming "Jeep Weekend" in an attempt to bring more control to what has become an increasingly violent annual gathering on Bolivar Peninsula.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/local/galveston/2025/05/12/521110/jeep-weekend-galveston-2025-restrictions-approves-beach/

#Galveston #LawEnforcement #Local #News #Police #PublicSafety #BolivarPeninsula #GalvestonCountyCommissionersCourt #GalvestonCountySheriff #GalvestonCountySheriffJimmyFullen #JeepWeekend2025 #TexasGeneralLandOffice

The #DEA Once Touted #BodyCameras for Their “Enhanced Transparency.” Now the Agency Is Abandoning Them.
The email said the agency made the change to be "consistent" with a Trump #executiveorder rescinding the 2022 requirement that all federal #lawenforcement agents use body cameras. But at least two other federal law enforcement agencies within the Justice Department -- #USMarshals and #ATF -- are still requiring body cameras, according to their spokespeople.
https://www.propublica.org/article/drug-enforcement-administration-ends-body-camera-program-trump

404 Media: Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional. “A judge in Nevada has ruled that ‘tower dumps’—the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers—is unconstitutional. The judge also ruled that the cops could, this one time, still use the evidence they obtained through this unconstitutional search.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/20/404-media-judge-rules-blanket-search-of-cell-tower-data-unconstitutional/

Four people tied to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office committed suicide recently, calling attention to ongoing mental health struggles among law enforcement.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/law-enforcement/2025/04/14/518770/string-of-law-enforcement-suicides-rattles-first-responders-and-exposes-gaps-in-state-support/

#HarrisCounty #HealthScience #LawEnforcement #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Police #Texas #FirstResponders #HarrisCountySheriffSOffice #MentalHealth #TexasLawEnforcement #TexasLawEnforcementPeerNetwork

Incoming British laws offer a test on how to get networking and messaging apps to beef up defenses against fraud. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/04/09/world/fighting-social-scams/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #socialmedia #cybersecurity #banks #lawenforcement #telecoms #tech #cybercrimes

Monday is "First Responders Day" at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, where volunteers on the medical and safety committee also activate when someone is injured at NRG Park.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/events/houston-livestock-show-and-rodeo/2025/03/10/515635/houston-rodeo-2025-medical-and-safety-committee-assists-first-responders-at-nrg-park/

#Events #HealthScience #Houston #HoustonLivestockShowAndRodeo #LawEnforcement #Local #MedicineWellness #News #Police #FirstRespondersDay #HoustonRodeo #NRGPark #RodeoCommittees #RodeoVolunteers

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.
This, only this, the rigid Law pursues.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Poem (1738), “London: A Poem,” ll. 159-160

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/johnson-samuel/19352…

#quote #quotes #quotation #crime #homeless #indigence #injustice #law #lawenforcement #lawbreaking #poor #poverty #vagrancy