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June 16, 2008
Local Police Involvement in the Postville Raids?
After my commentary on the Postville raids, I received some useful reactions (and some not so useful personal attacks) to its content. One issue specifically is the accuracy of the media's reporting of local police involvement in the raids. Local sources take issue with this characterization and are suggesting to me that the involvement was overstated, and that, in fact, police had little input and little prior knowledge of what was to take place that day. Moreover, though I have not been able to verify this, it has been suggested to me that Postville police was proud of its record of having established trust with the immigrant community.
Unfortunately, it appears that at least two councilmen are pushing a 287(g) agreement between local police and ICE. This would be unfortunate. Not only does it detract resources from local police away from their responsibilities as community caretakers but it increases the vulnerability to criminal victimization by immigrant communities who are too afraid to rely on police to protect them.
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'...it increases the vulnerability to criminal victimization by immigrant communities who are too afraid to rely on police to protect them.'
I understand the theory, but people routinely refer to this 'fear factor' as if it's been proven to be true, an established fact. I don't know of any study which validates the theory with hard criminal reporting statistics and if there were I expect all the anti-local enforcement advocates would be citing it right and left. Special Order 40 is three decades old and 287g is now old enough with enough participants for there to be some studies.
Posted by: Jack | Jun 17, 2008 2:22:03 AM
