Text from article: 1811s are the government’s detectives. The difference between 1801s and 1811s may seem minor, but it’s incredibly important in federal law enforcement powers. And it matters, particularly, in understanding why CBP and ICE are as rogue and poorly trained as they are. For one thing, since CBP was entirely set up as 1801s, that inadvertently meant that it had no authority or power to investigate wrongdoing by its own agents and workforce — to make that point more sharply, in the post-9/11 reorganization, we created the nation’s largest federal law enforcement agency and didn’t give it the power to have the internal affairs capacity that one would expect at even a mid-size local police department. That helped enable the now-two-decade-long tidal wave of corruption, crime, and misconduct that has swamped CBP since its 2000s era hiring surge. As I wrote in 2014, “There were 2,170 reported incidents of arrests for acts of misconduct, such as domestic violence or driving under the influence, from 2005 through 2012—that’s nearly one CBP officer or agent arrested for misconduct every single day for seven years.” By 2018, that pace had only slowed to one agent or officer arrested every 36 hours. And this is an ongoing problem: Just last month here in my hometown, we had a former Border Patrol agent sentenced for having more than 350 images of child sexual abuse material on his phone while serving as an agent.