[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

[Larry Lucido]

police-inflicted beatings like that rained on Rodney King are the rule rather than the exception

Bullsh!t

giving communities greater control over anti-crime resources

Like concealed carry? Nah! We don't trust the police or private security - and we sure as hell ain't trusting the unwashed masses.

and generating alternatives to imprisonment

Like a coffin for those who commit burglary or armed robbery? Once again, nah!

[Larry Lucido]

The most current case of union-busting security guards is unfolding in Detroit this summer. Members of the Newspaper Guild and the Teamsters are on strike at the city's two daily newspapers, the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press

Geez, how old IS this article????

[dimquest]

Turns out there is a 'legal' way to have the right to bear arms & protect your property in the 'great state' of Louisiana.

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.


Thus the solution is outlined.

Form a neighborhood 'private security firm'. Get everyone in the families involved licensed, provide them with a uniform and their papers, and get the list to authorities at the state board; --- then enjoy your right to life, liberty or property in New Orleans.

[planekT]

ping for later read.

[Melas]

Well, I admit I'm disturbed by this recent trend. Not so much because I fear rent-a-cops, but because of an emerging double standard. In NOLA, the cops were disarming citizens, while the rent-a-cops were carrying automatic weapons that citizens aren't allowed to carry themselves. IMHO, rent-a-cops should have to abide by the same carry laws I do. To allow otherwise is inviting class warfare.

[TChris]

As rent-a-cops supplant functions once performed by police, the private security industry is creating a separate and unequal system under which the rich protect their privileges and guard their wealth from perceived barbarians at the gate. Many of the affluent now live in enclaves, gated communities, where private security forces control entrances, screen visitors and hired help, and patrol the grounds. These heavily-armed private guards are accountable not to the public, but to the well-manicured hand that feeds them. Meanwhile, it is left to public police forces to maintain a coercive order within deteriorating inner cities.

No pathetic class-bashing going on here. Move along.

[genefromjersey]

1.It's easy to go after the private security firms-but what are the alternatives ? Company guards with union benefits, etc. ?

2. Most states regulate private security-some more than others.NJ regulates investigators and security equally.
NY used to, and may still have one set of requirements for private security;another for private unvestigation. Some states require complete licensing-others let the companies decide.

[Calpernia]

Few more tidbits on DynCorp

UN Condones Dyncorp Sex Crimes & Sex Slavery
by DOMINIC HIPKINS

A senior United Nations official is demanding that her colleagues involved in the sex trade in Bosnia should be stripped of their immunity and prosecuted.

Madeleine Rees, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia, has broken ranks to demand that UN officials, international peacekeepers and police who are involved in sex crimes be brought to justice in their home countries.

Speaking exclusively to Scotland on Sunday, the British lawyer has also launched an outspoken attack on her former boss. She accuses Jacques Paul Klein, the former head of the UN Mission in Bosnia, of not taking UN complicity in the country’s burgeoning sex trade seriously enough.

In recent years there has been a massive increase in the trafficking of women in Bosnia, including girls as young as 12. The women are taken from their homes in eastern Europe by organised criminal gangs and brought to Bosnia, where they are forced into prostitution.

The trade in these so-called ‘sex slaves’ hardly existed until the mid-1990s.