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What's the difference? > lawmakers in 29 states have approved or are working on either similar laws or ones that allow for the creation of hospital police forc
by gumby 4y ago
What's the difference?
> lawmakers in 29 states have approved or are working on either similar laws or ones that allow for the creation of hospital police forces. Members of those forces can carry firearms and make arrests. In addition, they have higher training requirements than noncertified officers such as security guards,
Do you consider railroad police or postal police and other such federal, state and municipal police (or private company police forces like railroad police that can make arrests etc) not "police"?
- teeray 4y agoAfter you’ve committed a crime, if they can legally deprive you of your freedom and exert the state’s monopoly on violence against you, they are police.
- firstlink 4y agoThat rule would make every adult in the 50 states and DC (*exceptions may apply in North Carolina only) police. The state has a monopoly on violence but it does not restrict the use of its monopoly to police; it graciously allows anyone to advance the state's interests. A better definition of police probably requires mentioning immunization from the consequences of exercising that violence.