My impression is that they are on a hiring frenzy, and are incredibly disorganized.

An AXON body camera is $800, usually sold with a subscription. If these ICE agents are buying their own gear, I can see why they'd just buy a GoPro or use their phone.

I'm sure the lack of traceability and accountability from private recording is a welcome "feature" (at least by the individual officers). The fact that the organization hasn't apparently prioritized or required accountable body-worn cameras is suspicious and unacceptable, but the available evidence is that this is organizational stupidity and negligence.

And being bad bad bad is a recruiting tactic for more. And it makes their victims feel bad, makes the situation worse.

Thats why they're so quick now to produce evidence. once they've tested, internally, their false evidence, they'll begin putting it out to vindicate themselves.

They're planning the "twitterfication" of government misinformation that like everything else, will take a lot more energy to debunk than produce.

That's why Elons back and why they'd release seemingly damning information.

You absolutely should not trust that they'll providing anything but falsified video. They're tired of lying wiht their mouths and would happily move to an AI propaganda grok.

If I said this even 5 years ago, it'd sound like paranoia, wouldn't it.