ICE agents will start wearing body cameras in five U.S. cities

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Source: NBC News

March 13, 2024, 2:00 PM EDT


Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will start wearing body cameras to record their interactions with migrants and the public in five U.S. cities, acting ICE Director P.J. Lechleitner announced on Wednesday.

After a six-month pilot program was deemed successful, ICE will start requiring officers working with Homeland Security Investigations as well as those responsible for arresting and deporting migrants to wear cameras on their uniforms in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Buffalo and Detroit.

“This is promoting transparency and maintaining the public’s trust,” Lechleitner said.

The program makes good on a 2022 executive order signed by President Joe Biden to mandate the adoption of body-worn camera policies for all federal law enforcement agencies. But without more money from Congress, Lechleitner said, ICE will not be able to expand the use of body-worn cameras beyond those five cities.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/ice-agents-will-start-wearing-body-cameras-five-us-cities-rcna143235

[ret5hd]

1. now, disable the "off" and "mute" buttons...

‘cause those get used WAY too often.

[Hiawatha Pete]

3. +1. From the list of cities it sounds like they're clamping down hard on those pesky Canadians...

... trying to avoid their universal single-payer healthcare & instead sneaking in to the US so they can go bankrupt from American-style "healthcare"

[ColinC]

2. This should prove enlightening

[marble falls]

4. These cameras protect everyone.

[SouthernDem4ever]

7. I agree

All law enforcement individuals should wear them. It protects all parties involved better than a bunch of heresay.

[canuckledragger]

5. This would be good, as long as they can't shut off the cameras themselves.

Or have control of all the footage obtained.

If not, they would be no different from any other crooked cop out there that can commit crimes unrecorded and control the narrative because they control the evidence.

[et tu]

6. cell phones are the

greatest deterrent if civic minded people are around,
but it is a good start to have cameras, let's hope
the program gets more funding- gotv~

[SouthernDem4ever]

9. Cell phones are only good for people getting clicks on social media and are causing a lot of harm in situations

However, that being said, they are better than nothing.

[speak easy]

10. You mean like the cell phone video of George Floyd being murdered?

⸮only good for people getting clicks on social media?

[SouthernDem4ever]

11. If there are no body cams, thats when cell phones are better than nothing

Did I really have to say that again for you?

[SouthernDem4ever]

8. I think most if not all jurisdictions that have them discipline officers that turn them off.

And they should.

[Mysterian]

12. Body cams should be a requirement for all law enforcement

There is too much police abuse and we have the technology to prevent or record it.