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“The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.” Heller v. D.C. - June 26, 2008
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They don't.
Just another symptom of out of control government.
Burlington Northern Sante Fe R.R. has had theirs for years.
The same reason the US Postal System and Dept of Edu has one?
I dunno how it is in Delaware, but down here there's a ridiculous number of non- or quasi-governmental agencies with their own police. Of course, each of the colleges/universities has its own force (so we're talking 5 or 6 there), VIA (bus) has its own, each school district has its own (5 or so), and of course we have park police, and railroad police...and then you get to actual cops and there are city cops, constables, the county sheriff's department, county marshals, DPS, and of course the Rangers. And I'm probably forgetting some.
Railroad police have been around for over a hundred years. To investigate crimes on railroad property (that cross lots of jurisdictions) to keep railroad property safe, and to keep people from vandalizing/stealing stuff in transit OR hitching a ride on a freight.
But the jurisdiction is the big one. Something goes wrong on a train bound from Cleveland to Pittsburgh. Who investigates it? Cleveland cops? Pittsburgh cops? the sheriff of each county the train goes through?
William beat me to it. Railroad police was one of the career options available to my father when he worked on Burlington Northern. Someone has to beat the snot out of the hobos. They're not going to beat themselves.
the MTA has its own police force...and in Baltimore, it's a necessity. we don't call our light rail the Rob & Ride for fun...
With the amount of federal money that goes to support the Amtrak system, it only makes sense that they would do something like this...
Railroad police basically came into being because Pinkerton started charging too much for square badges and no one wanted to allow overpaid and under qualified square badges any authority to do anything. So the government stepped in and screwed it up even more. Hell, they hired me.
Well, all the kewl kids have one. How could they be a federal agency if they didn't all have the kewl toys. I wonder if their SWAT teams move around on trains?
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