this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
-3 points (46.3% liked)

Progressive Politics

4389 readers
310 users here now

Welcome to Progressive Politics! A place for news updates and political discussion from a left perspective. Conservatives and centrists are welcome just try and keep it civil :)

(Sidebar still a work in progress post recommendations if you have them such as reading lists)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
-3
ICE at airports, is actually a good thing. (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 day ago by 1dalm@lemmy.today to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

My take: If we can't defund ICE until we take back one of the houses of congress, then the next best thing is to give them pointless security theater jobs.

Shoving as many hired ICE agents into Airport lines is a good thing for America right now.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sidenote here: Has anyone noticed that the push in recent years to force law enforcement to wear body cameras has resulted in a rather large increase in the amount of body camera footage content on sites like YouTube? Don't get me wrong, the body cameras are definitely a good thing, but a cottage industry starting around publishing people's worst moments to the Internet as cheap entertainment certainly seems a bit crass to me.

[–] solo@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

the body cameras are definitely a good thing

I am not so sure about that tbh. Where I live (another continent) they are used by some sort of officers to patrol boarders. Whenever these officers do push-backs/kill immigrants/etc their cameras are never on.

Th following article is more relevant to the US

The history of police body cameras is more complex and troubling than we’ve been told

With body cameras, law enforcement agencies could expand their surveillance capacity, mitigate police brutality lawsuits, create “highly controllable evidence” against the largely poor, largely Black citizens of whom police often seek to capture footage, and quell social unrest by creating “comprehensive digital archives” of attendees at protests for social change.