Not the most stringent requirements to apply, which answers a lot of the subsequent behaviour.
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SALARY UPDATE:
ICE, like most federal agencies, utilizes the GS federal pay scale. Individuals working as ICE Agents begin at a pay grade that directly reflects their education and experience, although most new ICE agents begin at GS-5 which, as of 2012, was between $27,431 and $35,657.
GS-5: $27,431-$35,657
GS-6: $30,577-$39,748
GS-7: 33,979-$44,176
GS-8: $37,631-$48,917
GS-9: $41,563-$54,028
HSI special agents are usually offered at the GL-7 and GL-9 level.
To qualify at the GS-5 level and receive the equivalent salary, candidates must either possess a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university or at least 3 years of general experience.
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Aren’t LEOs paid much better? To accept lower salaries, either you live the job or you can’t find anything else.
That’s the question. Is the training and testing adequate? Do they redo psych profiles on the candidates? Doesn’t appear so.
Police Training is a constant thing. The academy just teaches you the basics, then you usually get paired with an experienced officer, and then you are on your own. There is some variations on that, but that is fairly common. There are additional classes they can go do for various aspects of the job.
You can see how systemic issues can develope and carry for far longer than department policy.
Psyche evals are not a meaningful way to screen police officers. Yes, you can catch the bad ones, but the worse ones can hide their problems well enough for their issues to fester.
Look at my update on the salaries. Much lower than LEOs. My point is that ICE may be made up of ex-LEOs that who can’t be LEOs anymore for whatever reason.
I replied after the update.
That salary range is within reason of base pay for a LEO depending on location.
A dept near me had a job a few years ago with 50k starting rate, city of 60k outside of a major city. Go down south and the Podunk cop may only make 25k.
There are location dependant income incentives, so do not take ICE’s base pay as being a terribly meaningful number.
Some of them definitely will be police that don’t want to move counties or cities because of their bad behavior.
ICE and police have the exact same requirements: be this administration’s brown shirts and gestapo.