Armed and Dangerous: Private Police on the March

Covert Action Quarterly ^ | by Mike Zielinski

[Calpernia]

I was prompted to do some searches from the developments in New Orleans.

Freeper dimquest found this in LA Stat.

La. Stat., title 14, § 329.6. It provides:

Section F.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section, except in an imminent life threatening situation nothing herein shall restrict any uniformed employee of a licensed private security company, acting within the scope of employment, from entering and remaining in an area where an emergency has been declared. The provisions of this Subsection shall apply if the licensed private security company submits a list of employees and their assignment to be allowed into the area, to the Louisiana State Board of Private Security Examiners, which shall forward the list to the chief law enforcement office of the parish and, if different, the agency in charge of the scene.

How many other states have this in their Stats?

Also, worth noting:

Timothy McVeigh = Burns Security in upstate New York

Sahim Alwan (Lackawanna 6) - A former security guard at a local Blue Cross/Blue Shield office, he had assisted the agency in a federal fraud investigation in the late 1990s.

Argenbright Security - operates at 14 airports - government audit revealed that the security firm was/is employing screeners with criminal records

[Calpernia]

Please contribute your notes here about the Murrah bldg contract. I am going to use this as a bump thread.

Thanks!

[Calpernia]

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[Calpernia]

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[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1483108/posts

CCRKBA CALLS FOR FEDERAL INVESTIGATION, ACCOUNTING ON NEW ORLEANS GUN SEIZURES
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms ^ | September 12, 2005 | CCRKBA

Posted on 09/12/2005 5:47:09 PM EDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

BELLEVUE, WA – Following low-key inquiries that were met with stony silence and official indifference, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today is calling for a federal investigation into reports of gun seizures from law-abiding New Orleans residents, and is demanding that officials there immediately account for all confiscated firearms.

CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb is also demanding that New Orleans police officials immediately stop the seizures, disclose where those firearms are being kept, how they are secured, the type and number of firearms involved, and how those guns will be promptly returned to their rightful owners, in the condition in which they were originally taken.

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[bitt]

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[Calpernia]

Excerpt:

http://www.controlarms.org/documents/chapter1_colour.pdf

Throughout Latin America, the rapid growth and increasing power of private security companies is a real concern. According to the Guatemalan government, there are about 116 private security companies operating in the country, employing 35,000 agents: an unofficial force greater than the entire army, and twice the number of police officers. In El Salvador, fewer than half of the 17,000 private security agents had done a five-day training course as required by law.

[weegee]

It is one thing to hire your own security guard. It is another thing entirely when you hire an "off duty" officer who continues to wear the city officer uniform.

Can I have my own officer as a chauffeur? I know that officers routinely speed and run lights in their cars with no sirens or flashing lights. I know that officers will direct traffic so that a company's customers/employees don't have to wait to pull out into traffic (make existing traffic that has the right of way stop and congest the street instead). I'd like to have a private driver who could bend the law as he sees fit.

Hiring a uniformed police officer as a personal body guard would also mean that my bodyguard would be free from any assault (it would carry the penalty of assaulting an officer, even though he was not "on duty").

[Calpernia]

We have had situations in our state with our governor using state troopers as personal security. He has even used them in intimidating situations where he has verbally threatened private citizens.

[weegee]

Hillary is smarter than that. She uses union goon squads to intimidate and eye-gouge dissenters.

[weegee]

We have had situations in our state with our governor using state troopers as personal security. He has even used them in intimidating situations where he has verbally threatened private citizens.

I had to check your profile page to make sure you weren't talking about THIS state.

[Calpernia]

That state seems to be connected to this state. So same play book :(

[AlaskaErik]

This reads more like a Democratic Manifesto. It isn't about rent a cops, it's about the so-called widening gap between the rich and the poor.

[Calpernia]

I had no problem reading it. Sorry you did.

[CBart95]

So this is your great big "CAUSE CELEBRE"?
And you start it off with this hot headline: "The era of dual law enforcement is already here."
Then you proceed to dinigrate the "indusrtry" by citing all the misdeeds performed by some individuals in the category. We know all this! It's a fact of life. Goes back to pirates and stagecoach robbers...and before that.
And worse, you stifle any intelligent discussion of this non-topic by completely presenting your case to the point that just about anybody is looking for the exits.
When you next come up for air, look up "Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior". With your wonderful gift of passion for knowledge you might find new dragons to slay. Looking forward to your posts.

[sinkspur]

Increased privatization is further widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots. Since 1979, the real income of the richest 20 percent of the U.S. has grown by nearly 20 percent, while the 60 percent at the bottom have seen their share of the wealth decline. This difference will be further exacerbated by new tax breaks promoted by a Republican Congress. Fifty percent of the benefits would accrue to those with more than $200,000 in annual income, while another 30 percent would go to those making more than $100,000.

The nationwide Campaign for Community Safety and Police Accountability (CCSPA) addresses the need to make security forces accountable to the public while implementing programs designed to reduce crime by meeting social needs. The organization calls for programs geared toward ending police brutality, giving communities greater control over anti-crime resources, and generating alternatives to imprisonment. Such efforts pose a progressive alternative to vigilante-style neighborhood watch groups and the increased deployment of armed guards from the public and private sector.

This is socialist, collectivist garbage. I'm surprised the author didn't recommend the forcible redistributon of wealth as a solution.

Perhaps you're on the wrong website.

[tallhappy]

CAQ? Lefty hardcore communist as the day is long.

Typical empty but attempted visceral rhetoric. Very short on any substance.

[traviskicks]

Very interesting.... I'd like to see libertarians debate about the privatization of police... it is one of those grey areas that is pretty interesting, I'm not referring to this article, this is all fine by me, but rather the idea of cities contracting out police departments etc..

Not sure where I stand on that...

[tallhappy]

This reads more like a Democratic Manifesto. It isn't about rent a cops, it's about the so-called widening gap between the rich and the poor.

Yes. CAQ is 60's new left burn out hardcore commie socialists -- those to mentally deranged too get cush jobs in the current MSM.

[lndrvr1972]

And??? So what? these men are prior LEO and Military. What is wrong if you have the money to pay someone to protect your property. Please I wish some people would just shut the hell up.