What is a "United Special Police"? They are part of a rapidly growing number of private, corporate "police forces" springing up across America designed to protect property of the people who hire them. Here is one I photographed in Hickory a couple of days ago. The car is marked "United Special Police", and it sports a private license plate that is carried on a specially modified "Police Interceptor" body. This one is probably out of Morgantown, NC. These private police forcers are prime candidates for the New American Problem of guns in our public schools. One of the special projects that these private police forces can do is to provide protection for our schools. Are they affiliated in any way with the NRA? Or the Koch brothers, or the other corporations that stand to profit from American kids being shot down and killed in their classrooms? These Special Police can also "patrol" shopping malls, theaters, restaurants, and so on almost without end.
Quoting from p.21 in my book "Capitalism: Servant or Master?",
"Private security guards have outnumbered government police officers since the 1980s. Coordination between private and official agencies often ovelap and the private agencies now perform work previously assigned to official agencies.(2.4) Wackenhut for example has contracts to guard the Internal Revenue Service, the General Accounting Office, the Federal Reserve, Oak Ridge National Security Complex, Savannah River nuclear plant, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, even Fort Bragg, and this is not a complete list. They also have various resouces devoted to airports, ports, and specialized Global Response Teams and Executive Protection Services, etc.
Wackenhut, DynCorp, Blackwater, Triple Canopy are four of about forty-five “Private MIlitary Firms” that can be found on a “partial list”. (2.5) There are recurring reports that some members of local police forces leave their jobs to begin work with the private police forces which pay more money and have fewer regulations."
The reference quoted as FN 2.5 is here: http://www.privatemilitary.org/private_military_companies.html
