Rampant, unchecked corruption inside CBP (Customs and Border Patrol)

[AverageOldGuy]

I stumbled on this article this morning -- has anyone else heard of or seen of or participated in Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s “Illinois Accountability Commission,” that he set up after Trump's “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago last summer?

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

Apparently some of the testimony before the Governor's Commission included this gem:

Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP’s misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink.

In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective:

• The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.

• Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

[sop]

1. "The crime rate of CBP agents was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the U.S."

They should deport themselves.

[dalton99a]

2. It is a well-known fact in South Texas - where Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez came from

[Scrivener7]

3. Shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

[leftstreet]

4. DURec

[Historic NY]

5. Border officers have been arrested at a rate roughly five times higher than other U.S. law enforcement officers.

So far this fiscal year 71

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/reported-employee-arrests]

[flashman13]

6. Could Bovino, AKA The pocket Nazi, been among the miscreants? Please say yes.