Ozzie D, NP-hard :bikepump: :vegan:<p><a href="https://www.cambridgeday.com/2025/06/10/ice-agents-arent-required-to-identify-themselves-councillors-learn-in-trying-to-get-police-to-ask-id/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cambridgeday.com/2025/06/10/ic</span><span class="invisible">e-agents-arent-required-to-identify-themselves-councillors-learn-in-trying-to-get-police-to-ask-id/</span></a></p><blockquote><p>City solicitor Megan Bayer told councillors that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were not required to identify themselves, though “they are legally obligated when it is safe and practicable to do so to say they are an Ice agent or a federal immigration enforcement agent conducting immigration enforcement operation.”</p></blockquote><p>The council members (and this article) didn't explicitly mention one of the most important reasons federal LEOs must identify themselves: crimes being perpetrated by people impersonating ICE agents: kidnapping, rape, robbery, harassment (c.f. <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/196360/man-impersonates-ice-agent-robs-immigrant-pennsylvania" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/post/196360/ma</span><span class="invisible">n-impersonates-ice-agent-robs-immigrant-pennsylvania</span></a> , <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/us/ice-impersonators-on-the-rise-arrests-made-as-authorities-issue-national-warning" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/us/</span><span class="invisible">ice-impersonators-on-the-rise-arrests-made-as-authorities-issue-national-warning</span></a>). Forcing federal agents to disclose their IDs to local LEOs provides some modicum of accountability, and might reduce the risk of violent reactions and opportunistic crime.</p><p>But since cruelty, fear, and mayhem help the regime achieve its political goals, no matter who generates them, it has no incentive to deescalate (even if that would help protect its own agents in the long run).</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@universalhub" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>universalhub</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CambridgeMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CambridgeMA</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MApoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MApoli</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ICEraids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEraids</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p>