The Glade 4.0

http://wkrg.com/2017/04/11/alabama-sena ... ice-force/


Emboldened by the Trump-Pence win, conservatives move to advance Religious police.

On it's own property. Private Universities already do this, and such police forces can only perform the functions of A) normal security guards or B) arrests for public laws passed by the legislature.

These are not "religious police" and they are not being pushed by "conservatives".

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Uh huh. Since when do we let churches enforce laws?

And would they have jurisdiction that supersedes city police on premises?

Since when do we let universities enforce laws? If they're following the same rules as every other private police force, there's nothing wrong with this.



Probably not, for the same reason a city police force doesn't supersede the county or state police, but it's irrelevant. If they're sworn police officers commissioned in the State of Alabama they have to follow the same rules as any other police officer - which includes taking people to court of they're arrested. The court is most assuredly not subject to church authority.

What this church has really done is open itself up to immense financial liability. I can already sense leftists and atheists licking their chops and dreaming up ways to gin up a complaint and a lawsuit. I sense this congregation has essentially committed suicide.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Most universities with their own police forces are public institutions.

There are some private ones as well, but the relationships between the university police force and the local police districts are quite ironclad in terms of what the university police force can and cannot do, and it never has jurisdiction off the campus boundaries.

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

The relevant point is annotated.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Hooray!

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have no fundamental problem with this. As always, the devil is in the details. A security force for a large institution is not a problem. If the state delegates authority to them, without providing proper oversight, that could be an issue.