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The Private Arm of the Law
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:51:48 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: EEkid () aol com Date: January 2, 2007 11:18:49 AM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: The Private Arm of the Law The Private Arm of the Law Some Question the Granting of Police Power to Security FirmsRALEIGH, N.C. -- Kevin Watt crouched down to search the rusted Cadillac he had stopped for cruising the parking lot of a Raleigh apartment complex with a broken light. He pulled out two open Bud Light cans, an empty Corona bottle, rolling papers, a knife, a hammer, a stereo speaker, and a car radio with wires sprouting out.
"Who's this belong to, man?" Watt asked the six young Latino men he had frisked and lined up behind the car. Five were too young to drink. None had a driver's license. One had under his hooded sweat shirt the tattoo of a Hispanic gang across his back. A gang initiation, Watt thought.
With the sleeve patch on his black shirt, the 9mm gun on his hip and the blue light on his patrol car, he looked like an ordinary police officer as he stopped the car on a Friday night last month. Watt works, though, for a business called Capitol Special Police. It is one of dozens of private security companies given police powers by the state of North Carolina -- and part of a pattern across the United States in which public safety is shifting into private hands.
Private firms with outright police powers have been proliferating in some places -- and trying to expand their terrain...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/ AR2007010100665.html?ZOMG
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