Yeah, yeah, no shit. But read further down in the article and you get this:
If there were law-enforcement agencies particularly ill-suited to anonymity, it would be Customs and Border Protection and the Border Patrol. From 2005 to 2024, nearly 5,000 CBP and Border Patrol officers were arrested, according to the journalist Garrett Graff, who testified about his findings to an accountability commission set up by the governor of Illinois. Information on the multitude of corruption-related charges faced by agents can be found on the CBP’s own website. “The crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States,” Graff writes. Statistically speaking, “worst of the worst” seems to describe CBP and the Border Patrol as law-enforcement agencies better than it does the people they’re rounding up. (emphases mine)
To me, that's the real story, right up there with and equivalent to what they're doing at work.
The regime HAS to hire sociopaths to inspire fear and terror on the streets because no one else will do it, and even then some are starting to crash out. Applicants are already well aware there is neither honor nor glory in what they're signing up for (that's for the rubes) but it turns out that being called out to your own face daily, by entire crowds that never stop, in the worst language people can find, and finding yourself universally hated by everyone but your peers sucks the joy out of it too. You can't even do it without getting swarmed and filmed now, much less as secretly as you'd like: it's hard to savor that brutality when all those citizens are filming you from fifteen different angles.
So I'm not at all surprised to see stories coming out of individual ICE agents working under the influence, drunk driving, passed out in their vehicle covered in puke, or involved in theft and sexual assault, because they are FAILING. And not only are they failing, they are HATED. They're not heroes, they're not winning, they're not even meeting their quotas. It's inevitable that when all that mutual pseudo-military back-slapping bro-cheering togetherness ends and they end up in their hotel rooms alone some will be leaning hard into their preferred maladaptive coping behaviors, and that even the most effective of those will now be failing them.
Or to put it another way, these are brutal fucks who are hired because they get joy out of thuggery: take that away like the public has, surrounding them with cameras and calling them names and pointing out their exceptional incompetence in everything they touch, they're just going to bust out in other ways.
In fact, I'd lay money on what we've actually seen of individual ICE sociopathy being the least of it, and that the reality and scale of ICE off-hours criminality is a hell of a lot worse than that. I'd also bet that at least part of that very large DHS budget has is dedicated to keeping as much evidence of ICE personal crime out of public sight as possible, by any means.
