{"id":33583,"date":"2026-02-21T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=33583"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:30:07","slug":"the-metric-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=33583","title":{"rendered":"The Metric System"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/21\/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice\">She didn\u2019t know<\/a> it at the time, but it was the beginning of an ordeal that would see Karen handcuffed, shackled and sleeping on the floor of a locked cell, before being driven for 12 hours through the night to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre. Karen was incarcerated for a total of six weeks \u2013 even though she had been travelling with a valid visa.<br \/>\n...<br \/>\nSo why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that<strong> ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone<\/strong>. \u201cIndividual ICE agents get money per head that they detain \u2013 the guards told me that,\u201d Karen says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/2025\/10\/27\/former-tennessee-troopers-say-dui-quotas-led-arrests-sober-drivers\/\">Former Tennessee Highway Patrol<\/a> troopers say there\u2019s a reason so many innocent people have been arrested for DUI in Tennessee \u2014 <strong>internal quotas and pressure to make arrests<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Smith and Adam Potts, both former THP troopers, told WSMV4 Investigates that the repeated insistence to increase DUI arrests is inadvertently resulting in innocent people being charged with DUIs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is corruption. We\u2019re ruining people\u2019s lives. We\u2019re being forced to ruin people\u2019s lives,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he had ever arrested a sober driver for DUI, Potts said, \u201cYes, sir. I\u2019m sure I have.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She didn\u2019t know it at the time, but it was the beginning of an ordeal that would see Karen handcuffed, shackled and sleeping on the floor of a locked cell, before being driven for 12 hours through the night to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre. Karen was incarcerated for a total of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33584,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33583\/revisions\/33584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}