[lbo-talk] Living in a Police State of your own design ...

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Wed Mar 15 07:31:11 PST 2006


http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/police_departme.html

"It's easier than you think to create your own police department

in the United States.

"Yosef Maiwandi formed the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority --

a tiny, privately run nonprofit organization that provides bus

rides to disabled people and senior citizens. It operates out

of an auto repair shop. Then, because the law seems to allow

transit companies to form their own police departments, he

formed the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority Police Department.

As a thank you, he made Stefan Eriksson a deputy police commissioner

of the San Gabriel Transit Authority Police's anti-terrorism

division, and gave him business cards."

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