[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]

Info Ping

[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").

[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.

[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...

[infowarrior]

Much of what this article asserts, I can vouch for personally, as I was a guard for CPP/Pinkerton for about 5 years. The lack of training, background investigation, and the depressingly all too often subpar quality of my coworkers were all too apparent. This is exacerbated by the usually extremely low pay that line officers receive, which is no incentive for decent officers to remain...

the infowarrior

[meyer]

One look at the actions of the New Orleans police officers doing their own hurricane "shopping" ought to tell anybody why the government police cannot be trused to protect their assets. I'd hire a private security firm as well if my local PD were that crooked.

[green iguana]

Such efforts pose a progressive alternative to vigilante-style neighborhood watch groups

I thought this was about rent-a-cops. This bozo doesn't even like neighborhood watch groups. What a bunch of ultra-leftist drivel.

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1483299/posts?page=1#1

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

Summary: OIG and FAA today released initial results of an ongoing review of background checks of security screeners employed by Argenbright Security, Inc. at 14 airports. The special security assessment was begun Friday, October 12 by joint teams comprised of officials from OIG and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Preliminary findings of the assessment have found that:

1)Screeners at some airports had a prior criminal record that should have disqualified them from employment in security sensitive positions;

2)Investigators have also worked with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to determine whether employees who were foreign nationals had authorization to work in the U.S;

3) an individual was arrested October 13 at Dulles International Airport and charged with attempting to board an aircraft with a concealed pocketknife; and

4) a spot check of screeners of Dulles also found that 7 of 20 screeners were unable to pass the test required as a condition of working at checkpoints.

[monday]

Overwrought communist propaganda. Yawn...... Why don't you post this drivel over at DU. You would get a lot of support for it over there troll.

[Calpernia]

http://www.house.gov/transportation/pbed/09-06-01/bellow.html

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1483299/posts?page=1#1

>>>Timothy McVeigh = Burns Security in upstate New York

McVeigh Death Certificate
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b30fe494291.htm#22

Very interesting what turned up for Burns Security, the one McV worked for right after the Army--- "The most notorious security guard alumnus is Timothy McVeigh. After serving in Operation Desert Storm, he hooked up with Burns Security in upstate New York. He guarded Calspan Corporation, a firm which conducts research for the Defense Department.

By the Way, their URL seems to be torn down to me. This is from Google Cache---



About Burns in Oklahoma City

For nearly a half-century, Burns International has been a premiere supplier of security services in Oklahoma City and surrounding communities.

Entering into the 21st Century, with a staff of over 400 licensed security officers, we are the largest provider of contract security officer service in Oklahoma City serving the metro and surrounding areas. We have an equal size district office in Tulsa.

In Conjunction with tenured managerial leadership, our security officers are supported by a professional staff with over 150 cumulative years of managerial experience in the contract security industry! Unlike most of our competitors, we have a Personnel Specialist who does our recruiting and hiring and a Sales Manager who specializes in business development. This allows our operations staff to devote all of their time and energy to take care of OPERATIONS!

Our client base is comprised of over 80 of Oklahoma City's finest Class A office buildings, shopping malls, health care centers, banks, college and Vo-tech campuses, large, small and hi-tech manufacturing plants, meat and food processing centers, logistics/distribution centers, warehouses, hotels, motels, and homeowner's associations.

We are proud of our record breaking client retention rate for the past 10 years!

We are a "Total Security Solutions" company,
offering these additional professional services.

Uniformed, armed, mobile patrol service.
Background information services.
Investigative services.
Integrity line service.



For More Information, please contact our Business Development Manager,
Sam Feronti by calling (405) 946-3030
or by E-mail sferonti@burnsintl.com

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1483299/posts?page=1#1

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

Mr. Berglund of Securitas said that his company bought into the American market expressly to change it. Securitas has also recently purchased security operations from Pinkerton and Loomis Fargo, a business formed by the 1997 combination of Wells Fargo and Loomis Armored Inc. Besides Securitas and ICTS -- which stands for International Consultants on Targeted Security -- the international invasion also includes Securicor P.L.C., a British company that last year acquired Argenbright Security from AHL Services of Atlanta to become the largest airport screening company in the United States.

[ctdonath2]

So ... what's the problem?
Those who can afford to rent security do so ... what's the problem?

The article is a lot of hype and hysteria and misdirection, without actually demonstrating what the problem is. I don't see the problem; reading between the hysteria, the article shows how readily available and useful and GOOD such rentable security is.

[saleman]

O.K. I'll admit I didn't read all the piece but I call BullShit!

If I choose to hire security guards to protect my business or property what business is it of anyone else's? If someone is hurt or killed from negligence then let the courts handle it. There's your accountability.

Like I said, I didn't read the whole dang thing, was there any mention of these Hollywood celebs or professional athletes or Rappers and their bodyguards?

[trubluolyguy]

Gee I don't know why everyone gets upset about things like this, after all it's just the free market at work.


Hell, it worked for the gas prices why not for this too?

[antaresequity]

Privatization of police, or anything for that matter is step forward, not back.

Perhaps if the government wasn't so set on 'disarming' their citizens (note: the citizens), more people could fend for themselves.

More Gun Control = More Crime = More Private Security Forces

Its not rocket science...just unintended consequences