An annual summary from Homeland Security’s inspector general said the department initiated 1,389 investigations into internal matters, leading to 318 arrests and 260 convictions of DHS employees. In 2011, the auditor -- which describes itself as “the principal agency within the department with the authority to investigate employee corruption” -- found instances of bribery, child pornography and “nonconsensual sexual contact” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees among the crimes DHS staff allegedly committed.
The foolish part is that anyone thinks this started in 2024.
or that it’s an isolated problem.
> https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/26/jimmy-savile-s...
An annual summary from Homeland Security’s inspector general said the department initiated 1,389 investigations into internal matters, leading to 318 arrests and 260 convictions of DHS employees. In 2011, the auditor -- which describes itself as “the principal agency within the department with the authority to investigate employee corruption” -- found instances of bribery, child pornography and “nonconsensual sexual contact” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees among the crimes DHS staff allegedly committed.
> https://www.govexec.com/defense/2012/08/laptop-thefts-drug-s...
> https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/enforcement/former-acting-hhs-cybe...
> https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/federal-employee-charge...
You could go all day. Surface just being scratched.