Minyin Bison

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by Humerox [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Understandable and valid point, but in our case it was all about how the agreement was written. Services were basically pre-paid and no single person or entity had control over the coverage.

Now if a single entity owned it's own PPS and wanted to go warlord style...yah, problems.

Even if they were independent, how are the rules set up? do they enforce law or preference? what wiggle room would there be between law and preference for individual communities? It isn't so hard for me to imagine them getting a contract or a raise based on the idea that certain things will slide.. Sounds like conflict of interest and a recipe for corruption to me.

[Humerox]

This may differ from area to area, so I can only speak for what our particular enforcement action encompassed under local law.

We would have had the ability to enforce existing law in relation to crime, to the extent of detention and arrest until regular authorities could take action. For example, if we arrested someone for whatever...we could hold the individual until the regular police could place him under proper arrest. The beauty of it was that because we weren't regular police, Miranda didn't apply, although habeas corpus did, but was a gray area because of the differences in civil and criminal law, and the definition of power given to us by the state.

Each state basically has a definition of power the PPS, security agencies, et al. have to operate under. So what works in one area may not be the same as another.

We would have had the power to regulate anything a regular police officer did...but were also more subject to lawsuits, which is where our insurance problems came in. They didn't want to issue liability because the legitimate power issue was so gray...so that blew it for us.

Any level of police effort is subject to regulation by another authority...city police are subject to state police, both subject to the US Marshal's Office...etc.

As far as corruption goes...if I had a nickel for every corrupt police force there is in this country...