Why a private company is investigating rapes at an ICE detention center instead of the sheriff
We all know why.
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2026
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He [Lt. David Collins] said CoreCivic “did not request our involvement” for any cases last year.
“Because no criminal investigations were initiated by the Sheriff’s Office, no reports were forwarded to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office for consideration of charges,” he said.
Outsider Canadian here, but is this not your red flag - among many red flags - that the private prison facility is now a lawless zone and perhaps the Sheriff's office and prison operators are now shockingly open to criminal and civil liability? Under what authority would a Sheriff's office have to enter an understanding with a private company as far as who is responsible to investigate crimes?
In some jurisdictions, the police would act as basically an office holder when they decide when a piece of legislation was violated, and to lay charges against an individual. Police are agents or employees of the state when they are not exercising this special authority to charge people with offences. When the charge is laid, the prosecutors take over the file. But now you're saying that the police no longer want to use that special function - the reason why they exist - and they hand it to a private company with their own interests beyond the Justice System?
This isn't the Justice System any longer.
Cruelty is the point.
But what's the goal?
Are they cruel so we are afraid of them or are they cruel so that we hate them?
I'll start, I HATE them.
They are cruel because they hate us.
Are they cruel so we are afraid of them or are they cruel so that we hate them?
The lowest ranking goons in these organizations are effectively paid in a dispensation to be sadistic. ICE, as an organization, exists to organize and monetize an otherwise ambient public hatred of the Out Group (people of color, migrants, outspoken liberals and leftists, etc).
Sure, you're intended to be afraid of them. But, more importantly, you're intended to be someone for them to exercise their own anxiety and frustration on. And the high from the abuse they inflict is what keeps them coming back to a thankless, miserable job. It's what keeps them loyal.