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Operation Border Star: Wasted Millions and Missed Opportunities
In this 33-page report, the ACLU of Texas describes how 11 of 40 participating Texas local law enforcement agencies used Border Star, a $110 million, state-funded effort that is supposed to combat violent crime, drug smuggling and terrorism.
"As a law enforcement program, Operation Border Star has been a failure because it encourages police and sheriff's departments to measure their success based on everyday policing activities like disorderly conduct," said Laura Martin, ACLU of Texas Policy Analyst and the report's lead author. "It therefore takes the focus from the program's intended goal of fighting cartel-violence and organized crime."
Download the report: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
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