{"id":6239,"date":"2015-03-06T06:46:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T11:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6239"},"modified":"2015-03-06T06:46:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T11:46:39","slug":"private-police-mercenaries-for-the-american-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6239","title":{"rendered":"Private Police: Mercenaries for the American Police State"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/private_police_mercenaries_for_the_american_police_state\" target=\"_blank\">Private Police: Mercenaries for the American Police State<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/Ex-Philly_police_captain_blasts_American_policing.html\">Corporate America is using police forces as their mercenaries<\/a><\/span>.\u201d\u2014Ray Lewis, Retired Philadelphia Police Captain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s one thing to know and exercise your rights when a police officer pulls you over, but what rights do you have when a private cop\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/Ex-Philly_police_captain_blasts_American_policing.html\">entrusted with all of the powers of a government cop but not held to the same legal standards<\/a><\/span>\u2014pulls you over and subjects you to a stop-and-frisk or, worse, causes you to \u201cdisappear\u201d into a Gitmo-esque detention center not unlike the one employed by Chicago police at\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2015\/02\/behind-the-disappeared-of-chicagos-homan-square\/385964\/\">Homan Square<\/a><\/span>?<\/p>\n<p>For that matter, how do you even begin to know who you\u2019re dealing with, given that these private cops often\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/why-does-a-campus-police-department-have-jurisdiction-over-65000-chicago-residents-1112\">wear police uniforms, carry police-grade weapons, and perform many of the same duties as public cops<\/a><\/span>, including carrying out SWAT team raids, issuing tickets and firing their weapons.<\/p>\n<p>This is the growing dilemma we now face as private police officers outnumber public officers (more than two to one), and the corporate elite transforms the face of policing in America into a\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2014\/07\/massachusetts_swat_teams_deny_aclu.html\">privatized affair that operates beyond the reach of the Fourth Amendment<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, it\u2019s not as if we had many rights to speak of, anyhow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private Police: Mercenaries for the American Police State \u201cCorporate America is using police forces as their mercenaries.\u201d\u2014Ray Lewis, Retired Philadelphia Police Captain It\u2019s one thing to know and exercise your rights when a police officer pulls you over, but what rights do you have when a private cop\u2014entrusted with all of the powers of a 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