NEW: In 2021, the Drug Enforcement Administration welcomed the addition of body cameras and touted the “enhanced transparency” they bring. Now the agency has quietly ended its body camera program, citing a Trump executive order. By @marioarizabaez.bsky.social - ThreadSky

propublica.org • 5 days ago

NEW: In 2021, the Drug Enforcement Administration welcomed the addition of body cameras and touted the “enhanced transparency” they bring.

Now the agency has quietly ended its body camera program, citing a Trump executive order.

By @marioarizabaez.bsky.social

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nsightful.bsky.social•3 days ago

tazornissen.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'm sure it is not because they will violate people's rights..

franken-pattern.bsky.social•5 days ago

Alternative Title:
DEA Drops Body Cams in Order to Ramp Up Illegal Citizen Kidnappings

bobbyblue182.bsky.social•5 days ago

When ICE can get away with renditioning our friends and relatives dressed in dark clothing, masks, guns, hoodies and NO identifying markings, what should we expect?

kilocharlie237.bsky.social•5 days ago

Cover-up. Before the crime.

This country has been teetering on the edge for 248 years.

They just didn't know it. 😆

ricklw.bsky.social•5 days ago

So now is it fair to call them the warrantless, kidnapping secret police?

daddybunny.bsky.social•5 days ago

He’s ramping up and recruiting for brown shirts to do his dirty work.

Don’t want video evidence getting out, so easiest way to prevent that is to prevent filming in the first place.

lifewithmonsters.bsky.social•5 days ago

A shit sandwich with a side order of shit, how are we not in an authoritarian regime?

way2old4thissh-t.bsky.social•5 days ago

They want to hurt and kill people with no accountability

franmacp.bsky.social•5 days ago

Can’t have those pesky records when you’re engaged in illegally helping ICE, can you?

wendymadarling.bsky.social•5 days ago

Aw, FUCK

annwiggins.bsky.social•5 days ago

We need transparency and accountability with all law enforcement personnel.

greyfawks.bsky.social•5 days ago

Body cams make it almost impossible for them to plant drugs on you

warpdriveby.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yall best understand this mean YOU NEED TO HAVE ONE, HOPEFULLY MANY, GOING TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE. We as citizens must defend our democracy, because option 2, is let Trump steal it and worship his son, grandson, ad infinitum LIKE NORTH KOREA. FUCK THAT.

nicktide.bsky.social•5 days ago

Brown shirts don't want cameras

dhpaul1031.bsky.social•4 days ago

Would have expected nothing less. Now, they can tramble on people civil rights at will.

quilterjude.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thank goodness journalism exists! Thank you ProPublica!

sheshekim.bsky.social•5 days ago

We still see the facisim.

charmedneedle.bsky.social•5 days ago

What happens to all the cameras they’re abandoning? More toxic ewaste? Recycled into a different part of the surveillance state? Sold to local law enforcement?

imbodach.bsky.social•5 days ago

Criminals hate transparency.

Introducing The Enhanced Opacity Program.

quellrumors.bsky.social•5 days ago

So did George Floyd die in vain. Hope that girl still has that video and should start giving us a reminder we are racist.

grzegorzswoboda1.bsky.social•5 days ago

I need more fent

gardenthymeherbs.bsky.social•5 days ago

So free to be unlawful. Dea.should be abolished & drugs made legal with regulation. Stupidity otherwise.

umbrumray.bsky.social•5 days ago

They never wanted them they never wanted transparency

lindaisee.bsky.social•5 days ago

No dolls, no transparency, no civil rights, no Constitution. Only the trump way. This is what happens when we get comfortable and forget that WE THE PEOPLE have responsibility for our government.

shizaru.bsky.social•5 days ago

Aye! 🎯 High time to galvanize & get the millions upon millions of registered voters who don’t participate to do their duty. 🗳️
#WeThePeople are the TRUNK of the 🌳 that nurtures, or not, the branches. That eXeCuTiVe branch is fetid & rotting! USians: HIGH time & tide to prune!! 🪧👹🔱
#NoKINGS #Resist

cardgrrl.bsky.social•5 days ago

Because OF COURSE THEY HAVE.

cynthiajschmitt.bsky.social•5 days ago

Frightening

frc1968.bsky.social•5 days ago

They don't want their crimes to be recorded.

manitou99.bsky.social•5 days ago

Those jackboots in OKC didn't wear cameras, can't let people see their unlawful behavior by arresting US citizens because they are too lazy to read the damn warrant.

mtvcop.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm sensing a pattern here . . .

mooglekingofspace.bsky.social•5 days ago

Probably gonna see more international warrants for these guys too

johnki7yra.bsky.social•5 days ago

If federal agents must obey illegal orders, it's best not to record them.

edowd.bsky.social•5 days ago

Great reporting. Another brick in the authoritarian wall.

afrowe.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thanks for looking into this. I was wondering when they would get to this - expected progression before the massive surveillance they are planning now that they have everyone’s private data! That’s what dictators work.

savealfira.bsky.social•5 days ago

Police-controlled body cameras are still a whitewash though aren't they? Even in the best case when all police are required* to have cameras the net effect is more evidence favorable to the police narrative. And mysteriously less that holds cops accountable

Better off without the illusion of reform