809 abuse complaints that made it as far as the internal affairs bureau at the border patrol. a huge number of those complaints, 40% of them, were never resolved. they re still pending, still open, no decision made of any kind. 40%. and the other 60% of the cases where a decision was made, the complaint process was closed out and in 97% of the those cases, where a decision was made, the decision that was made was to take no action. 97%. and that went down quite significantly. we start with 809 complaints. a total of 13 of them result in some action being taken yes, that s to scale and in most of those 13 cases, the action that is taken is that somebody has to have counseling. and this is the only information that we ve got about this huge law enforcement agency. a random snapshot of a three-year chunk of some of the complaints filed against them at an agency that doesn t have a single complaint process. these are just the ones that happened to go through an office called internal a
advocacy group filed a foya for abuse complaints against border patrol agents. these aren t about deaths, just abuse complaints. again, this is a huge law enforcement force. 21,000 officers. the number of border patrol agents has more than doubled since 2004. okay, this agency is ballooning. how are they doing in terms of discipline and use of force since they ve been upscaling so rapidly? again, we have no idea. there s no single complaint process if you want to tell somebody in authority about misbehavior or abuse that you ve seen by a border patrol agent. there s no single official complaint process, which, again, is amazing. but the american immigration council filed this request specifically for complaints about abuse that somehow made it to the internal affairs offices at the border patrol. and they were able to get those records, specifically, and what they found was fbi-level shocking and then some. again, this is abuse complaints, not killings, but look at what they found. ove
three-year chunk of some of the complaints filed against them at an agency that doesn t have a single complaint process. these are just the ones that happened to go through an office called internal affairs. well, now the head of the internal affairs office at the border patrol has been fired. he s being kept on at the agency in some other capacity, but he has been relieved of his duties as head of internal affairs as of this week. he s a bush administration era hire, has been at the agency since 2006. in terms of the overall head of this agency, the obama administration just put somebody new in charge of customs and border controls, the former police chief from seattle. he s only taken over the agency since march. but as of this week, one major head has ruled that this totally opaque agency all right, the numbers that we do have out of this totally opaque agency are sort of shocking. the numbers we don t have, the stuff we have zero information about, the things about which they relea
that any or all of those shoots are necessarily bad shoots, but how can it be that we do not know at all? last month, an immigration advocacy group filed a foya for abuse complaints against border patrol agents. these aren t about deaths, just abuse complaints. again, this is a huge law enforcement force. 21,000 officers. the number of border patrol agents has more than doubled since 2004. okay, this agency is ballooning. how are they doing in terms of discipline and use of force since they ve been upscaling so rapidly? again, we have no idea. there s no single complaint process if you want to tell somebody in authority about misbehavior or abuse that you ve seen by a border patrol agent. there s no single official complaint process, which, again, is amazing. but the american immigration council filed this request specifically for complaints about abuse that somehow made it to the internal affairs offices at the border patrol. and they were able to get those records, specifically, and
interesting to watch why are so many conservative commentators ganging up on gingrich? president obama s state of the union draws the usual wall to wall television coverage. good evening. while our focus in primetime here in washington tonight will be the president s state of the union address before a joint session of congress at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. to be fair, the attention hasn t been on the president, not for months. within a day the story fades. has the media s attention span grown too short? plus, the new york times reports that a former yale football star withdrew from potential road scholarship after a student filed an informal complaint accusing him of sexual assault. no charges ever filed. is that out of balance? why did the yale daily news sit on the story? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. if the final days before the primary, newt gingrich needed another strong debate performance to overtake mitt romney. the presidential debates, a