Item three concerns personnel oversight. In New York, on October 8, an officer of the federal immigration enforcement service — the species styles it ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement — was involved in a shooting. On October 11, a news desk reported that the same officer had also been filmed in Minneapolis, during a controversial arrest in which a pregnant woman was assaulted. The agency had not connected the two events. The connection was performed externally, by an organization whose entire method consists of watching the recordings. The agency's only functioning cross-reference is payroll.
The desk records the following. Finding 4: the agency maintains individual conduct files; the files are accurate; retrieval of a file requires a journalist, a position the agency has not created. Recurrence risk is assessed as high, because the agency's oversight of the agency is performed by the agency, which holds no file on itself. Remediation plan: an internal working group will report on cross-office record awareness by the end of the third fiscal quarter, a deadline selected on the stated grounds that it has not yet occurred. The working group's first act, per its charter, is to become aware of itself.
"The department was not aware the officer appears in both recordings," said Renee Dalgleish, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Awareness. "An internal review has been opened into how external parties became aware of department personnel before the department did. The review will examine the handling, not the recordings; the recordings are not a departmental product. Awareness of awareness is now a departmental priority, listed above awareness."
"Both incidents were consistent with training," said Gene Castellano, Second Vice President for Field Conduct at the officers' association. "If the same officer appears in both, that reflects the consistency of the training. A third city would settle it. The association is not requesting a third city." The desk appends the arithmetic: two cities, one officer, two incident files, zero cross-references. The file containing both was compiled by a news desk on October 11 and carries no form number.
Disciplinary matters at the agency enter a holding queue that locals call a waiting list — the queue of the queue — where items wait to be assigned, on Form I-Eventually, a date by which consideration may begin. The desk cannot report the officer's current status, because the document containing it has not been retrieved, and retrieval, per Finding 4, requires a journalist. The desk has retained one, as one retains a forklift — per incident, per city.
Decision of the desk: the species' personnel oversight is graded "operational," the finding is filed into the queue of the queue, the remediation is calendared for the quarter that has not yet occurred, and coverage will continue until the oversight oversees.
