I should have warned him. I worked in Topeka about 40 days once. Then the railroad police and about 6 City cops escorted me to the bus, stay right there too, until the bus left with me aboard. Had to have the Holiday Inn send my stuff home. I doubt dviss has ever had shit like that to deal with.
According to FBI stats, tens of millions of Americans have been in prison for drug-related charges. Legalize it! Give us the freedom to choose our recreation. How immature of those in power, to put people into cells for years if we don't share their personal preferences for recreation. I don't bowl often, but I don't imprison bowlers, and justify it with an invented injury count from bowling. Now that I got that off my chest...What's your story's prequel, Marzul?
props to the police for not making this minor issue into some huge deal. They told the nudist to leave but didn't charge him or violate his rights.
I had just proposed a plan to automate Freight bill rating which would eliminate the need for about 746 of the 750 rate clerks at the Santa Fe Railroad. The Rate clerks were some of the highest paid employees in the Union. What I didn't know was the Railroad Police were also of this same Union with a charter authorized by Congress over a century earlier, the charter was the model use to authorize the FBI at a later time. I think I experienced the meaning of the term, "Railroaded". I hired an attorney in Topeka after I got home since I was being prevented from completing my contract. About two weeks later the Attorney said he didn't think he could help me, as he could find noway to sue the Railroad police. He suggested I try the U of Kansas law school and he provided the number for the Chair of the school. They worked on it a month or so but found noway nohow to redress a grievance with them. So, the plan did not get implemented, and the Santa Fe went down the tube. edit: Freight bill above should read Waybill. Freight Bill is a trucking term, Waybill is railroad talk.
Here's an article from this year. Railroad police are company employees, not government employees, but have the powers of regular police. If Denny's Libertarians get the country privatized, this is the future. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/us/complaints-rise-against-nations-railroad-police.html?_r=0
This is true but not quite the same relationship one thinks of for employees. They are union employees and I don't understand who is in charge. In my case, the top Railroad management and the majority stockholder desperately wanted this project to go, but did not have the horses to get me back on the premises. They hired a guy to come pick my brain, but the fellow could not begin to grasp all that he needed to know to run the project. So I don't know who the hell was in command.
I don't see any reports of young black men being shot multiple times by railroad police. The casinos in Vegas have their own private police. It works great. The regular police wouldn't guard the casinos like the private cops do.
That sir, might not be as odd as you think. While they may not often come in contact with young black men wielding knives in the middle of the track, or trespassing in Corporate headquarters, they generally call in backup when they do encounter the interloper. Drawing the weapon does not seem to be the training they receive. They call in the locals, while they apparently retain control. The two separate ententes with multiple persons involved has a dampening affect on rash action. Run his ass out of town is far more restrained than blow it away.
Ha! What you think? Are the Vegas private police informed that when clients are shot, they do not return to spend another day. Might even brush a guy off they inadvertently knock down, ever mindful of the possibilities the next day.
I don't recall a single person being shot by the private police during the 7 years I lived there. People would be detained and handed over to the government police for jail and court hearings, etc.
Oscar Grant. But it was only one shot in the back, while already handcuffed and lying on his stomach. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Oscar_Grant That's Nevada. Railroad police have differing powers in different states. (I never read about this till now. Interesting.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_police#Jurisdiction_and_authority
Reading that, I see that the railroad policeman did 11 months in a private cell, and only because of pressure from riots. His defense was that he intended to tase Oscar Grant, accidentally drew the wrong weapon, and killed him. If you or I accidentally murder someone, we get 30 years. If dviss does, he gets life. If it's a state without capital punishment.
