Americans Creating Private Police Forces

Posted by | March 1, 2015 14:00 | Filed under: Pot Luck Top Stories

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This kind of thing didn’t work out so well for George Zimmerman.

Michael Youlen stopped a driver in a Manassas apartment complex on a recent night and wrote the man a ticket for driving on a suspended license. With a badge on his chest and a gun on his hip, Youlen gave the driver a stern warning to stay off the road.

The stop was routine police work, except for one fact: Youlen is not a Manassas officer. The citation came courtesy of the private force he created that, until recently, he called the “Manassas Junction Police Department.”

He is its chief and sole officer.

He is a force of one.

And he is not alone. Like more and more Virginians, Youlen gained his police powers using a little-known provision of state law that allows private citizens to petition the courts for the authority to carry a gun, display a badge and make arrests. The number of “special conservators of the peace” — or SCOPs, as they are known — has doubled in Virginia over the past decade to roughly 750, according to state records.

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16 responses to Americans Creating Private Police Forces

  1. Carla Akins March 1st, 2015 at 14:12

    Oh holy shit, this is a bad idea.

  2. Dwendt44 March 1st, 2015 at 14:12

    Expect the militia movement to jump all over this big time.

  3. edmeyer_able March 1st, 2015 at 14:27

    Great, more opportunities to be shot by a cop w/o them being cops what could POSSIBLY go wrong with this.
    Didn’t this use to be called vigilantism?

    • Bunya March 2nd, 2015 at 13:33

      Look at the bright side. Not every wanna-be cop has a father who is a supreme court magistrate.

  4. raypc800 March 1st, 2015 at 14:42

    Actually the Federal Government already has an answer to this via the US Airforce becoming a nation wide police force. If too many states start this trend. That is all that is needed for the Federal Government to activate the Federal police force.

    • edmeyer_able March 1st, 2015 at 16:00

      With hundreds of militias already assembled this wont even be on their radar.The average Joe on the street are the ones who have to be worried about this. If they’re stopping cars how long before they’re doing no knock raids on your residence?

      • raypc800 March 1st, 2015 at 16:07

        You are mistaken if you think that the FBI is not already watching these groups. They monitor these groups from drones.wiretaps, satellite observation and so on.

        • edmeyer_able March 1st, 2015 at 16:13

          Is the FBI watching these private cops? No way in hell they don’t have the manpower.

          • raypc800 March 1st, 2015 at 16:22

            Sorry sir, but the FBI has numerous ways to follow what each one of these guys are doing. A simple use of any electronic device can pinpoint each and every person and their communications. All information of surveillance via computer to red flag.

            The easiest solution to this problem is for the state to change the law stopping it. I wonder how long that will take when the first politician gets busted for drug driving or Domestic violence. I bet not long.

    • fancypants March 1st, 2015 at 18:27

      actually the government had ” federal marshals ” patrolling the states until they were abolished in the early 1990s but your right Something is brewing ?

  5. fancypants March 1st, 2015 at 18:23

    watch out Anomaly Zimmerman has to be interested in your state

  6. StoneyCurtisll March 1st, 2015 at 18:57

    Citizens arrest~!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9efgLHgsBmM

  7. fahvel March 2nd, 2015 at 03:03

    NY to Fla via ohio?

  8. jybarz March 2nd, 2015 at 07:03

    Just hope he, and they of his kind, don’t start shooting unarmed black kids whose hands are up or playing toy gun in the park or walking to their parents’ home.

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