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Date: January 2, 2007 11:18:49 AM EST
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Subject: The Private Arm of the Law
The Private Arm of the Law
Some Question the Granting of Police Power to Security Firms
RALEIGH, 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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