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Policing methods that focus on building relationships with the community.
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...
(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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Public and private – law‑enforcement exchange programs present themselves as and “best practices” curricula—focused on counterterror operations, surveillance, crowd control, border/security screening,...
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...
-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...
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 ...