Journalist and author Garrett Graff has been looking into the crime rate among agents and officers of CBP (Customs and Border Protection). Some of his findings, as recently revealed in testimony before an Illinois state commission:
Criminality is so rampant within CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005 . . . .
In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024–the last year numbers are available–at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times . . . . To put that number in perspective:
The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department–equal to the size of the entire Philadephia police.
Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and officers was higher per capita than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.
People of Minneapolis: “You don’t say?”
Transcript of Graff’s Fresh Air interview on this subject, here. YouTube video of his testimony before the commission, here.
Eric the Blue 
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