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"path": "/2026/03/16/ice-officers-admit-to-arrest-quotas-during-court-testimony/",
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"site": "https://www.techdirt.com",
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"textContent": "It’s not that arrest and ticket quotas don’t exist. They do. They always have. They always will. It’s that they’re illegal. Courts have repeatedly criticized quotas because they create incentives so perverse they’d make /b/ board denizens uncomfortable. Since they’re presumptively illegal, most law enforcement agencies will use any word but “quota” to describe these. […]",
"title": "ICE Officers Admit To Arrest Quotas During Court Testimony"
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