Last year, as Bloomberg News first reported, OCDETF was defunded and shut down amid the Trump administration’s cost-cutting spree, sparking alarm among law enforcement officers given the task forces’ achievements over the decades, which included a leading role in the 2019 capture of Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The administration transferred various responsibilities, including 5,000 existing cases, to a new set of task forces under the Department of Homeland Security that are focused mainly on immigration enforcement.
3/3 Shockingly the highly efficient and in the Epst. investigations involved #OCDETF (Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces) was defunded and shut down amid the Trump administration’s cost-cutting spree, sparking alarm among law enforcement officers.
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