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sjfcontrol wrote:

marksiwel wrote:
The "School" police should have jurisdiction in, the school, and maybe a mile within the school.
But giving them power in almost every COUNTY in Texas? Too much. But thats just one mans opinion.

Why does a school need ANY police? And especially why should they have any power once off school property?

Why don't schools just use the regular police? (Or are school cops kinda like Paul Blart -- mall cop? )

It's so they can take your guns away for any reason they can conjure up while they're not writing students tickets.


There...we are back on guns now (big time kidding)

In all seriousness, some universities are bigger than the surrounding cities. Take Texas A&M for instance, it has an undergrad population of 40,000 plus. If you add in grads, faculty and staff you're the same size as my city that I work for.

I can't speak for others but the guys I know with A&M's UPD are actually squared away guys with good tactics. Think about the response necessary for an on campus shooter at A&M.


Anyway...I too am done on the topic of schools.

Mr. Roth - I was finding the same in looking through the PC, GC, and CCP. That's as far as I could look with the time I had.

I know my friends that work A&M's UPD have jurisdiction in any county that Texas A&M holds property...which is all but like 3 counties in the state I believe. That makes them like state police of sorts...almost.

trdvet wrote:As I recall nothing defines jurisdiction. The arrest authorities define what/where Peace Officers can do things.

TEXAS CCP 14.03(g)(2) wrote:(2) A peace officer listed in Subdivision (3), Article 2.12, who is licensed under Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, and is outside of the officer's jurisdiction may arrest without a warrant a person who commits any offense within the officer's presence or view, except that an officer described in this subdivision who is outside of that officer's jurisdiction may arrest a person for a violation of Subtitle C, Title 7, Transportation Code, only if the offense is committed in the county or counties in which the municipality employing the peace officer is located.

I know it's in legal-eeze but I think it spells it out in there. The CCP is tough to read...that's why people that get paid better than I do get to deal with it.

WildBill wrote:

ninemm wrote:It's more like I was driving so slowly and turned so slowly that I must have had a bunch of illegals in the back.

That's exactly my point. Whatever it takes. Like being pulled over for DWB, but in this case DWM.

Couple of points: If the OP couldn't see a patrol vehicle trying to pull him over do you really thing the patrol car could discern the race of the person operating the vehicle? Also, there isn't that Texas peace officers can do regarding illegal aliens. The best bet is to arrest them for something and put an INS hold on them and then it is up to INS to come and pick them up to be dealt with according to FEDERAL immigration law. Unfortunately, INS is spread a little thin so....illegals get treated the same as everyone else. They bond out and carry on.

Maybe the OP looked suspicious and the officers made a valid stop to investigate? Some call this fishing...others call it proactivity. Not saying this was the case (obviously since I didn't observer this), just offering another possible explanation. As far as attitudes and comments made on scene, again I can't comment as I wasn't there.