Posted on 06/26/2014 11:51:06 AM PDT by maine yankee
As it turns out, a number of SWAT teams in the Bay State are operated by what are called law enforcement councils, or LECs. These LECs are funded by several police agencies in a given geographic area and overseen by an executive board, which is usually made up of police chiefs from member police departments -------------- Some of these LECs have also apparently incorporated as 501(c)(3) organizations. And its here that we run into problems. According to the ACLU, the LECs are claiming that the 501(c)(3) status means that theyre private corporations, not government agencies.
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the key is who signs the paychecks of the SWAT members - a government agency, or the 501c.
No, the key is what kind of activity are they performing and under what authorizing identity. A private business has no authority to execute arrests or serve warrants.
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being employees of a corporation, doesn’t that make them ‘security guards’ and not police?
if a member of a company kills a ‘customer’, wouldn’t there be massive aw suits?
does this mean we can now sue the cops for anything and everything, just like corporations?
and exactly why are they 501c3? employees are making plenty of ‘profit’
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