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Richard Neal: “The average training period now for an ICE official can be…”

Featuring: Richard Neal, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 1st Congressional District

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Getting Answers Extra: Feb. 11

Published | Video Starts at 03:15

So I think that that's a reminder, as you've posed the question, that one of the problems we have right now is that ICE is not trained in crowd control. Street cops know how to manage crowd control. If you consider that The average training period now for an ICE official can be 40 days. contrast that with a police officer who is likely to have undergone almost a year of training for some of the same responsibilities. Sure. Police training, military training, the same thing. (03:15–03:21)

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