Years ago, I watched a documentary called "Cocaine Cowboys". It was about how Florida went from a sleepy state to a drug-fuelled boom as cocaine started to sho

Years ago, I watched a documentary called "Cocaine Cowboys". It was about how Florida went from a sleepy state to a drug-fuelled boom as cocaine started to show up and bring in tons of money over the 1970s and 1980s. They interviewed police, drug dealers, reporters, etc from the era. Anyways, part of the documentary was how the police in Miami needed to expand quickly to deal with the rise in violence and crime and part of that was the necessity of lowering hiring standards that, combined with hiring fast, meant that corruption and bad actors permeated into the police force. At one point the entire graduating class in one year were eventually all arrested for varying levels of nasty stuff. I think about that a lot when I see how fast they've expanded ICE, on top of the militarization of the force and lack of accountability.