What This Country Should Have Learned From the Mollen Commission

 The Mollen Commission, named after former Judge Milton Mollen, was created in 1992 by NYC's Mayor Dinkins to investigate police officers after several were arrested on drug charges in Suffolk County. The Mollen Commission recommended several changes to recruitment and retention that Trump and his advisors should consider when hiring ICE personnel.

The Mollen Commission Report found that the rising crime of the 1980ss "led to a striking increase in the rate of hiring new officers accompanied by a systemic failure to conduct thorough background checks and hold applicants to standards beyond the stated automatic disqualifiers."

IN effect the conclusion was that "approximately 20 percent of the officers suspended or dismissed should never have been admitted into the department." There were obvious red flags before they were hired which were ignored. Just as shocking, 88 percent of the officers in the study "entered the Police Academy before the completion of their background check." The report went even further - the background investigations were often not completed "until after the applicant becomes a sworn police officer." Thus, the police bureaucracy used countless resources to train an officer whom it turns out was not qualified to be there.  And the bureaucracy wonders if it terminates an unqualified officer, will it be able to hire another? Such a problem is all that is needed for the bureaucracy to do nothing.

The Mollen Commission Report advocated "when people show you who they are, believe them and act as soon as possible to remove them from the hiring process."

Now think of the ICE so-called agents who without proper investigation have been hired to police our streets.