Yes, the IRS is hiring criminal investigators empowered to use deadly force, but here's some context

[Roland99]

Yes, the IRS is hiring criminal investigators empowered to use deadly force — but here’s some important context
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/yes-the-irs-is-hiring-criminal-investigators-that-can-use-deadly-force-but-heres-some-context-11660247355

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Though the job is really about sniffing out income and accounting irregularities to build legal cases, one of the potential duties is “conduct[ing] or participat[ing] in surveillance, armed escorts, dignitary protection, undercover operations, execution of search and arrest warrants, seizures, etc.,” the job listing states.

There are 300 vacancies for that role, which pays between $50,704 and $89,636 annually, according to the listing.

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As a starting point, the estimate of the IRS’s bringing on 87,000 new employees came in 2021 from the Treasury Department, the AP noted. It would be a multiyear hiring plan and would encompass extra auditors plus an array of other jobs amid retirement and other IRS attrition, the AP added.

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Data show the criminal division is a sliver of the IRS’s overall workforce. The division includes approximately 3,000 employees, with 2,100 being sworn agents, the spokeswoman noted.

A little truth sandwich for lunch today

[Thomas Hurt]

1. They already had armed investigators. I used to work with a retired IRS investigator.

He told me he never even drew his weapon. In fact, he has never liked guns at all.

This whole "Gestapo" thing is bullshit.

[Effete Snob]

3. Two IRS investigators have been killed in the line of duty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dillon_(I.R.S._revenue_officer)

Michael Dillon was killed on September 23, 1983 at the private residence of former service employee James F. Bradley, located at 250 S Huxley Dr, in Cheektowaga, New York, where he had attempted to collect a sum of $500 on behalf of the IRS. Bradley previously had been adjudicated deficient of $2,500, and had subsequently remitted $2,000 to the IRS. An altercation occurred when Dillon attempted to recover the remaining money owed, during which Bradley shot him three times in rapid succession, with an M-1 rifle at point-blank range, killing him instantaneously

[Thomas Hurt]

5. Doesn't surprise me, the christofascist tax protesters and any scumbag drug/gun dealer

who isn't paying can be violent. I am not saying it isn't dangerous, they don't need them or they all never use them. I am saying the narrative the cultists are fronting is bullshit.

Armed investigators aren't new and having more of them is not some socialist move to take their money and guns.

[Effete Snob]

2. What do people think happens when they raid drug smuggling ops?

https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/organized-crime-drug-enforcement-task-force-operations-trap-mansion-and-two-birds-one-stone-deliver-strong-blow-to-international-drug-smugglers

Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force operations “Trap Mansion” and “Two Birds One Stone” deliver strong blow to international drug smugglers


The agencies' efforts resulted in the indictment of 96 defendants in federal court for charges related to drug trafficking, continuing criminal enterprise, unlawful possession of firearms, using firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking, money laundering and other federal criminal violations. Further, during these operations law enforcement seized 49 firearms, of which, several were AR-15 style rifles and multiple short-barreled weapons that were not registered as required by the National Firearms Act, stolen from local Texans, or otherwise illegally possessed. Law enforcement also seized approximately 511.9 kilograms of methamphetamine, 40 kilograms of cocaine, 19.3 kilograms of heroin, 67 kilograms of marijuana, 19 kilograms of controlled pharmaceuticals, 800 grams of fentanyl, and approximately $6.6 million in assets.

The operations and investigations were conducted by the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Flower Mound Police Department, Rockwall County Sheriff's Office, and the Lewisville Police Department.

[Initech]

4. Fox is extremely paranoid about this and it shows.

Got some financial crimes you don’t want people to know about, MAGAs?