ICE officers and agents will be getting body cameras to add to their uniform today, according to a senior official with the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n
Officers and agents will be mandated to bring them into the field when they conduct any operations by the end of this month.<\/p>\n
The change comes after several high profile deadly shootings by officers who were not wearing cameras.<\/p>\n
Under the Biden administration, a pilot program was set where 20 percent of officers had them.<\/p>\n
However, President Trump undid that mandate that would have eventually required all federal agents in any agency to wear cameras.<\/p>\n
This summer, DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin said they needed to change course and bring the cameras back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This new step towards more transparency comes at the same time as new reporting about ICE giving their officers \u201celectric gloves.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to a notice published by DHS, the department plans to spend up to 20 million dollars to buy thousands of gloves.<\/p>\n
The company who makes the gloves says they work like normal gloves, until officers press a switch to activate their \u201celectric mode.\u201d<\/p>\n
When touching someone\u2019s skin, the gloves deliver a pain stimulus that would help an officer gain compliance within seconds from someone who\u2019s being combative.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Civil rights advocates say they\u2019re already concerned with ICE agents\u2019 and officers\u2019 tactics, and use of force.<\/p>\n
Across the nation over the next few weeks, ICE officers and agents will adjust to their new body camera policy.<\/p>\n
This new federal policy comes at the same time as new calls for transparency in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
During a police oversight meeting on Tuesday regarding the Los Angeles Police Department’s response during anti-ice protests, NBC4 Investigates learned that LA taxpayers spent more than $17 million on the police response, paying officers and on overtime for crowd control.<\/p>\n
The report broke down the weapons officers used and how mass arrests could have been handled.<\/p>\n
However, many members of the public were critical that the review didn\u2019t show the full picture of what happened.<\/p>\n
Missing from this new report were numerous complaints about officers using physical force on protestors who weren\u2019t violent, and on journalists.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ICE officers and agents will be getting body cameras to add to their uniform today, according to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2871,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-430892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ice","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}