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Community Policing

The impact of ICE tactics on community trust and public safety, including the corrosive effect of deceptive tactics on community policing objectives.

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Jan 25, 2026
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How did the Secure Communities program operate and why was it controversial?

(S‑Comm) was a / biometric information‑sharing program that automatically routed arrestees’ fingerprints taken at local jails through to Homeland Security databases so ICE could identify removable non...

Jan 17, 2026
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How do outcomes (crime, trust in police, deportation rates) compare between declared sanctuary cities and similar non‑sanctuary cities?

A substantial body of peer‑reviewed and policy research finds that declared sanctuary jurisdictions do not produce higher crime rates and, in many analyses, are associated with unchanged or lower crim...

Jan 16, 2026
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How did the Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) differ from Secure Communities in practice and outcome?

The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) replaced Secure Communities in late 2014 with the stated goal of narrowing immigration enforcement to convicted criminals and other high‑risk individuals rather ...

Jan 16, 2026

How does the 287(g) deputization program work and which local jurisdictions currently participate?

The 287(g) program deputizes state and local law enforcement to perform defined federal immigration functions under written agreements with ICE, using several enforcement “models” (jail, task force/pa...

Jan 15, 2026

How have sanctuary policies affected public safety metrics and community policing outcomes in major U.S. cities?

Sanctuary policies—local limits on cooperation with federal immigration enforcement—have generally not increased crime and are associated in multiple studies and advocacy analyses with stable or impro...

Jan 27, 2026

How do local law enforcement policies restrict cooperation with ICE when agents use ruses?

limit cooperation with when agents use deceptive “ruses” primarily by denying access to facilities, refusing to provide material support or consent, and by adopting formal non-cooperation statutes and...

Jan 22, 2026

How did Obama-era DHS balance ICE agent safety with civil liberties and community policing?

-era pursued a mixed strategy that tightened officer safety and enforcement capacity while rhetorically and sometimes operationally trying to narrow enforcement priorities and preserve — a balancing a...

Jan 20, 2026

How does the 287(g) program change local police cooperation with ICE and Border Patrol?

The 287(g) program formally deputizes designated local officers to perform specific immigration-enforcement functions on behalf of ICE, bringing federal authority into jails and, in some models, onto ...