Chicago to Replace Police Officers with Private Security Force?

CBS2Chicago.com ^ | Mar 24, 2009 | Jay Levine / CBS 2

[shoutingandpointing]

Interesting times indeed.

[mgc1122]

As long as dey all is unionized ....

/sarc

[swain_forkbeard]

OCP will be taking the whole city of Detroit private any day now. Maybe it’s not such a bad idea.

[Lusis]

The great irony in this is the possibility that these are the very same people that made such about what Blackwater did in Iraq, and now they want them to police their own citizenry.

[CholeraJoe]

Come to think of it, not a bad idea. If a number of large cities outsourced their policing duties to a private firm things might be much better. Private security officers could focus on actually fighting crime rather than enhancing municipal revenue with speed traps, DUI road blocks, McGruff the Crime Dog, and D.A.R.E. programs.

I’ll bet Blackwater would bid on it.

[Mathews]

Blackwater is no more. Eric Prince left and the company is now known as Xe.

[Holicheese]

Good deal. These guys should have been fired years ago...What criminal would be afraid of a tap dancer and his jewish commedian partner?

[livius]

I suspect you’re going to see contracts with the NOI (Nation of Islam), which hires out its goon squads to rappers and thugs worldwide. I swear that Bambi himself had some NOI “security” at some of his appearances, or at any rate, they certainly did not look like Secret Service.

[Troy McGreggor]

For anyone who is interested...

http://www.secondcitycop.blogspot.com/

Thats a fantastic whistle blowing blog by and for Chicago cops. Read through it...it reads like the script of Robocop. You get the real story from them. Surprisingly enough, they are NOT Obama fans.

[Red Badger]

[bill1952]

RoboCop in real life.

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

Ping for viewing after work...

[righttackle44]

Say now. Haven’t we seen this before—a civilian police force? Got recognized and decided to increase their own powers? Used the name Schutzstaffel. Were better known by their initials, SS. By the way, Schutzstaffel means, according to one source, Guardian Angel.

[samson1097]

You beat me to it; I watched that movie on Sunday :)

[shoutingandpointing]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjGfnsjdJec

(3:56)
“He better hope the police get to him before we do.”

and

(4:11)
“Are you the police?”
“No ma’am; we’re musicians”

[decimon]

I’ll bet Blackwater would bid on it.

Or Pinkerton could go back to its roots. Continental Op redux.

[Drew68]

Private security officers could focus on actually fighting crime rather than enhancing municipal revenue with speed traps, DUI road blocks, McGruff the Crime Dog, and D.A.R.E. programs.

You just might be on to something here.

[shoutingandpointing]

Well, ja, but the MfS (Ministry for State Security) / SSD (Staatssicherheitsdienst: State Security Service) turned STASI (Staatssicherheit) fixed that. (/s)

Not the Polizei and, therefore, not bound by the same constraints?

[Malone LaVeigh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUnMF7dV86k

[mad_as_he$$]

Somebody just watch “Robocop” and think it was real?