Attacks on ICE up 1,000%? Trump administration claim not backed up by court records
Attacks on ICE up 1,000%? Trump administration claim not backed up by court records
- December 1, 2025
- Charis Kubrin, criminology, law and society and and CPIP affiliate, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 2025
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Charis Kubrin, a professor of criminology, law and sociology at UC Irvine, said the administration’s trumpeting of a more than 1,000% increase is misleading when the jump is coming from a baseline of almost zero assaults against agents. “This is what we call in sociology a moral panic,” she said. “A moral panic is created when statistics and other things are used to kind of create or socially construct a problem that is bigger than it is.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-01/dhs-1000-percent-increase-attacks-on-ice-agents-times-analysis.
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