So what's the big deal here? This is no different than any chartered university police department, transit infrastructure police, port police or govern departm

So what's the big deal here? This is no different than any chartered university police department, transit infrastructure police, port police or govern department specific security force. All those forces exist for no reason other than to prioritize calls that would get laughed off or a "we'll get to it when we get to it" response from a local or state police department. The rent-a-cops employed by the company named in TFA have little difference from government rent-a-cops performing the same duties beyond who's letterhead they get their pay stubs on. Frankly I think allowing security forces to have police powers is crap loaded with perverse incentives and ripe for abuse. But also I see no reason why being buddy-buddy with the .gov should get the above mentioned types of security agencies law enforcement power while a private security force securing a private facility cannot do the same. Rent-a-cop is rent-a-cop. Either they all get to arrest a hobo for peeing in a corner or none of them do.