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    "title": "Child Porn, Coke Smuggling: Hundreds of DHS Employees Arrested Last Year",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Border Patrol agents smuggling weed and coke. Immigration agents forging documents and robbing drug dealers. TSA employees caught with child porn. Those are just a few of the crimes perpetrated by Department of Homeland Security employees in just the past year.</p>\n<p>Since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security nearly a decade ago, the agency\u00e2\u0080\u0099s inspector general has been tasked with uncovering corruption, waste and criminality within its own ranks. The IG has had his hands full.</p>\n<p>According to a newly released DHS inspector general\u00e2\u0080\u0099s summary of its significant investigations, 318 DHS employees and contractors were arrested in 2011 (.pdf). That\u00e2\u0080\u0099s about one arrest per weekday of the men and women who are supposed to be keeping the country safe. The report lets us not only see how corrupt some agents tasked with protecting the homeland can be, it also gives us a scale of the problem. In short: There are a lot of dirty immigration and border officers.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>This confirms my priors. I wonder, how does it compare to other Federal bureaucracies, especially those charged with policing and security?  Via <em><a href=\"http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/employees/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+wired/index+%28Wired:+Top+Stories%29\">Child Porn, Coke Smuggling: Hundreds of DHS Employees Arrested Last Year | Danger Room | Wired.com</a></em>.</p>\n"
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