Radley Balko

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · The ICE Age of Surveillance and Enforcement · 28 Jan 2026 podcast

Yeah, right.

But you want to emphasize like the community service aspect of it, right?

Well, on the other end of the spectrum, it's too many police departments that are recruiting videos are blaring guitars, people –

cops rappelling out of helicopters, sicking dogs on people.

When that's what you're appealing to at the very first step in the process, I think that's indicative of a police agency that doesn't have the right priorities.

And what we're seeing with ICE and these federal anti-immigration groups, on social media, how are they trying to recruit to people?

They're appealing to

Blood and soil narratives.

They are making explicit references to white supremacist literature.

It's an amplification, right?

And beyond that though, I mean, they're also – they're content creators, right?

I mean, I remember the first videos we saw out of Los Angeles, you saw ICE agents chasing this immigrant down the sidewalk and then behind all the ICE agents, you saw another DHS employee carrying a camera running behind them to get it all on video for social media.

Oh, like a cops episode.

Right.

And if you think about like –

who is watching these horrific videos that we're seeing, like sitting at home unemployed and thinking, you know what, that's what I want to do for a living.

Like that, that is, you know, that is, they're excited by it.

You know, I think the one way I would push back a little bit on that narrative is that, you know, I have talked to a lot of law enforcement people, particularly reform-oriented law enforcement people, and they're furious about what they're seeing.

They're absolutely furious.

I agree with you.

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