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Old 12-16-2008, 09:37 AM
 
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your thoughts?
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Old 12-16-2008, 09:44 AM
 
Location: Baywood Park
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what are the circumstances?
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Old 12-16-2008, 04:09 PM
 
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Are you referring to where the MP's were helping to control traffic to the neighborhood where the Military Jet crashed last week killing 4 civilians?
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Old 12-16-2008, 04:26 PM
 
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I think the OP is talking about news reports that military police from the Marines have worked DUI checkpoints with the CHP in San Bernardino County around the Joshua Tree/Twenty-nine Palms area.
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Old 12-16-2008, 04:39 PM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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your thoughts?
Links always help.
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Old 12-16-2008, 05:37 PM
 
Location: Columbia, California
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I think the OP is talking about news reports that military police from the Marines have worked DUI checkpoints with the CHP in San Bernardino County around the Joshua Tree/Twenty-nine Palms area.
If the military bases were not there the traffic would be nill.
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Old 12-16-2008, 05:41 PM
 
Location: southern california
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i think we will have to do more of this type of thing as our resources go down.
i will get very nervous if blackwater starts doing police work.
the sooner they are disbanded the better.
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Old 12-16-2008, 05:42 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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Links always help.
Agreed.
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Old 04-21-2011, 02:48 PM
 
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With the cities cutting jobs to reduce their budgets, it only makes sense that the MP's would do that. In PARTICULAR, by a base. More policepresence, better the chance a DUIer won't slaughter your family coming back from dinner!!
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Old 04-21-2011, 03:26 PM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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I believe that the military is prohibited from doing police work in the US.

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And after the fiasco of the abuse of federal troops in the South following the War Between the States, the doctrine of Posse Comitatus was enacted into law. The Wikipedia online encyclopedia says this about Posse Comitatus:

"The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services ... from exercising nominally state law enforcement police or peace officer powers that maintain 'law and order' on non-federal property. . . .

"The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the United States National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. . . .

"The Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act substantially limit the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement."

The Posse Comitatus Act was passed in 1878 and was universally accepted as being a very just--and extremely important--law of the land.
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