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Law Enforcement Says ICE & DHS Are Making Policing Worse

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller listen to a rare focus group of 14 law enforcement officers, Trump-voting and Harris-voting, to get honest reactions to ICE’s actions in Minneapolis. Hear more on "The Focus Group" on Saturday morning.

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0:00.0

Tim and my friend Peter Hamby had tweeted the other day.

0:05.4

He said, I'd like to see a focus group of real actual cops giving honest analysis of ice officers in the field.

0:13.6

And I was like, that's a good idea.

0:16.0

We should find cops and find out what they think.

0:19.4

Now, I also knew that was not going to be easy.

0:22.5

It's like not easy to just go screen for cops because, A, you've got to find police officers

0:28.0

who are in the systems of people that they can find, that that's their occupation.

0:32.6

And then you've got to get them at a time when they know there's a lot of attention around

0:36.7

cops to come participate

0:37.6

in a focus group. But we did find 14 law enforcement officers. We talked to a group of Trump

0:44.2

voting cops and a group of Kamala Harris voting cops. And I'm going to use cops broadly.

0:51.3

I'm going to use law enforcement officers because they were a mix of federal law enforcement,

0:56.1

retired police officers, beat cops, some correctional facility officers. But they all have training

1:04.0

and they all had strong opinions on the way that professionals comport themselves in this line

1:10.2

of business.

1:11.4

I love this.

1:11.9

I didn't know what I was signing up for, actually, when I said, you just like come react to my focus group. I didn't even know it was going to be what Peter requested. And it's important, especially because when I was on peers, that the asshole, the officer Brandon Tatum kept yelling at me, like, are you a cop? Are you a cop? And I was like, no, but I'm pretty sure cops think this is bad.

1:28.6

So we can vet my priors there here. kept yelling at me like, are you a cop? Are you a cop? And I was like, no, but I'm pretty sure cops think this is bad.

1:28.6

So we can vet my priors there here. Well, that's interesting. Do you want to guess at all at the difference between the Trump voting cops and the Kamala Harris voting cops?

1:41.5

My guess is that the Harris voting cops are across the board say that like they acted

1:47.7

inappropriately. I mean, you know, maybe there's some caveats about, you know, whatever. You always

1:52.1

want to defend somebody in your business at some level and at least give somebody a little bit

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