As Immigration and Customs Enforcement was racing to add 10,000 new officers to its force, an artificial intelligence error in how their applications were processed sent many new recruits into field offices without proper training, according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the error.
The AI tool used by ICE was tasked with looking for potential applicants with law enforcement experience to be placed into the agency’s “LEO program” — short for law enforcement officer — for new recruits who are already law enforcement officers. It requires four weeks of online training.
Applicants without law enforcement backgrounds are required to take an eight-week in-person course at ICE’s academy at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia, which includes courses in immigration law and handling a gun, as well as physical fitness tests.
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AshMan85@lemmy.world · 87 pts · 222d
wasnt an error
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 22 pts · 222d
The whole purpose is to create chaos, upheaval, quite clearly.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 221d
And use the ensuing violence to declare martial law and halt elections.
It's literally the plot to star wars
gustofwind@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 222d
“Error”
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 222d
“Some”
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 221d
All!
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 222d
The creation of ICE just boggles my mind. ‘Lets give some poorly educated chuds a bogus 4 week online course, then give them guns and a mandate to detain whoever they see fit, what could possibly go wrong?’
What the fuck were they thinking? Honestly it’s a miracle not more people have been killed yet.
Edit: And let’s give it a cringy abbreviation a 12 year old would think sounds cool to boot.
Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 222d
I think they were thinkin "what's the fastest way we can get brownshirts on the street to whip up popular resentment and resistance so we can then implement martial law to consolidate and perpetuate our power?"
tonytins@pawb.social · 13 pts · 222d
You can thank W. Bush.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 222d
I hate to defend a war criminal but "Dubya" was probably the last president to have good ideas regarding immigration. He wanted to formalize seasonal work visas, streamline the path to residency and citizenship, and all sorts of stuff. Immigration wasnkind of his theme for a long time (since he was governor of Texas). It mostly got derailed by 9/11, but he at least have cohesive ideas on the matter. Everyone since has just been fuck up after fuck.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 5 pts · 221d
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 221d
Still rather have him back over this fuck
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 222d
ICE isn't new, it was created back in 2003 when the Department of Homeland Security was created post-9/11.
The lack of any training... that's new.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 221d
They're not getting zero training, I'm sure there's a 15 minute video featuring the IDF that is required viewing
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 221d
If you want the real reason why the standards are so low for ICE, I highly recommend watching Mussolini: Son of the century.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 222d
And by some they mean all
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 222d
Fake news. This implies that they were training some of them.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 222d
The key question is: what would training have taught them? I doubt it's "Not behaving like a post-democratic regime enforcement thugs"
aramis87@fedia.io · 15 pts · 222d
Fake news release to cover for that article where they signed up that reporter with no vetting or processing.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 221d
Yeah. Apparently after she published that on Slate, DHS took to social media calling her a liar, insisting it was all untrue, and she replied with "You sure about that?" and a video showing her ICE job offer and onboarding date while logged into their site. The recap and update is on The Guardian for whoever's interested.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 221d
"error" lol, as if they didn't intend for that to happen.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 221d
"error"
itsalldownhill@lemmy.org · 6 pts · 221d
“We can’t be responsible for their actions because of an error”
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 221d
"Oops!"
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 221d
Oh no, they won't be well-trained like murderer Jonathan Ross, 10 year veteran of ICE!
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 221d
Organization that has experienced immense pressure from above to dramatically increase and speed up their recruitment and has been given clear indication from overhead that they can get away with almost anything may have cut a few corners in their training and personnel selection criteria. ... You don't say?
frunch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 221d
They might as well blame it on AI. Heck, i wouldn't be surprised if this problem was at least partially caused by AI, come to think of it
nocteb@feddit.org · 3 pts · 221d
If you smash something you can't blame it on the hammer.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 221d
oopsie?
ebolapie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 221d
Wow, if we take them at their word the fash are terrible at their jobs and should never have been allowed into office.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 221d
They forgot the "T". ICE terror cannot wait.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 221d
MAGA will ultimately be brought down by their own virtuosic incompetence. The only problem is the damage they'll do along the way, so we have to hasten their fall in every way possible.