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The policies and guidelines governing the use of force by ICE and DHS, including reporting and review procedures.
Between 2009 and 2017, public records relevant to use-of-force incidents exist in several categories—internal ICE/Department of Homeland Security () directives and detention standards, Inspector Gener...
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal law enforcement agency within the Department of Homeland Security with two main operational law‑enforcement components — Homeland S...
When ICE orders a person to get out of a car, whether there is a legal obligation to comply depends on the lawfulness of the stop and the specific circumstances: ICE may lawfully order occupants out i...
Federal agencies have publicly pointed to existing and and to individual agents' training credentials when defending actions in , but they have not disclosed a city‑specific, declassified “rules of en...
Federal immigration enforcement lacks a standalone, public policy that explicitly lists approved crowd‑control chemical agents and their chemical formulations; ICE actions during are governed by DHS u...
A dramatic hiring surge under the Trump administration rapidly reshaped ICE’s enforcement ranks—doubling the agency’s size within months and pulling personnel from other federal law enforcement bodies...
Independent visual-forensics analysts who studied multiple bystander and agent-recorded videos of the shooting conclude the footage undermines the federal self‑defense narrative — showing the agent wa...
State and local police departments largely prohibit firing at moving vehicles except when a driver presents an imminent threat beyond the vehicle itself, language mirrored in Department of Justice gui...
Federal immigration agencies operate under layered but limited oversight: internal DHS and ICE use-of-force policies and administrative review, possible DOJ criminal referrals, and investigations by t...
State prosecutors have at times moved to charge federal agents for deadly or abusive conduct, but those efforts collide with constitutional, procedural and evidentiary walls—most notably Supremacy Cla...
Official and DHS materials assert that new agents receive de‑escalation and conflict‑management instruction at the and through agency refresher policies, but independent reporting and fact‑checkers do...
have been implicated in at least two deadly uses of force in : the fatal shooting of and another fatal shooting during protests that reporters identify as , both drawing national scrutiny and investig...
Proving or disproving that a vehicle was being used as a weapon hinges on contemporaneous evidence of imminence, officer perception, and alternatives—video, witness statements, forensic reconstruction...
’s deadly‑force statute requires that an objectively reasonable officer, based on the totality of circumstances known at the time and without hindsight, believe deadly force is necessary to prevent de...
maintains written, detailed detention standards, a National Detainee Handbook, and operational guidance that, on paper, are designed to protect detainee safety, health, and security ; yet multiple wat...