Bounty Hunters

[Cavalier Knight]

I was watching this program on the National Geographic Channel called Bounty Hunters. Although their job requires them to go towards danger. The mentality & tactics they utilize are pretty interesting.

We have a quite a few individuals on this site who come from a law enforcement / military background. If you were interested in forming a Bounty Hunter agency with the combined force of the different people in the various states on this site with their firearm & law knowledge it would be pretty damn interesting as well.

Such an agency if possible would provide coverage across the Country. As long as the training & any insurance required state to state is acquired. I don't come from either background but I've always been interested in what they do. If someone has the time & expertise to put that together I would get the training & participate. Just a thought.

 

[SomeKid]

I think some states prohibit bounty hunters from legally operating in them. That said, I think the last time this subject came up, bounty hunters were held in an incredibly low regard.

 

[Cavalier Knight]

Why? Those with CCW's want criminals off the street they have a million ideas of how that should be done but wait only if someone else has to do it. I got you. Thanks.

 

[Fred Fuller]

mrreynolds,

Your post above has come perilously close to getting your thread cuffed and stuffed. Would you care to edit it a bit perhaps, and steer back towards the middle of The High Road?

Thanks for your consideration,

lpl/nc

 

[hankdatank1362]

Search for the thread titled "Ask a bounty hunter."

It really opened my eyes to a lot of things I had not considered.

I started off thinking that FGAs or bounty hunters were ex-con thugs or cops who couldn't hack it. Everybody else seemed to think less of them than that... and with the attitudes shown by some, it's no suprise.

 

[Treo]

The two times I've run into "Fugitive Retreveal Agents" here in Colorado, the were decked out like the mall ninjas from Hell!

I'm concerned W/ the fact that they don't need warrants, that they don't have to demonstrate any level of proficiency at their chosen proffesion or the fact that they seem to demonstrate little or no regard for the civil rights of the person they snatch. In one well publicized case a woman was snatched off the street in Missouri & taken to Georgia, Where when presented to the court she was able to prove that she was NOT the fugitive the bounty hunters were looking for.

she sued for millions

 

[ronwill]

Somekid, while some states have tried to stop Bounty Hunters, court cases have prevented that from happening. This may some day be another SCOTUS case because it's in the Constitution.

 

[ilbob]

bounty hunting is essentially based on a contract between the person providing bail money and the bailee. part of the deal is you agree that if you don't show up to court, the bail bondsman gets to send someone to compel you to do so.

if you have a bail system, someone has to put up the funds to get people out of jail, since many people just could not afford to pay their own bond.

a few states handle this themselves now (I think Illinois is one). essentially the state provides the bounty hunters if you don't show up for court. state employed bounty hunters probably make as many mistakes as private ones do. mistakes are part of being human.

 

[Hardtarget]

...and those mistakes can be deadly! Think of how many on this board are armed while at home...add a wrong address, a no-knock entry...sudden realization of home invasion....somebody is going to die! Could make for a scary evening.

I hope it never happens here!

Mark.

 

[hrgrisso]

Arizona Bounty Hunters

The mentioned "WRONG ADDRESS" issue happened several years ago and it ended in a tragic firefight in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Az. now requires much more process in getting licensed to act as a Bounty Hunter.

 

[mekender]

bounty hunting is essentially based on a contract between the person providing bail money and the bailee. part of the deal is you agree that if you don't show up to court, the bail bondsman gets to send someone to compel you to do so.

its not exactly a contract, its more like an insurance policy... same thing i know... but the policies basically say that if you do not show up in court, they can come get you... it also usually states that if they have to come get you, that by being at a place, you give consent to the agency that holds the policy to enter that location in an attempt to make good on their policy... since they are acting based on an insurance policy and not as an agent of the legal system, they do not need a warrant... there is some concern about that, but the person that has the bail on them gives consent by signing the policy...

 

[Gunnerpalace]

I saw that show Dog is one thing he is unarmed, but these guys and gals I saw were HEAVILY armed (I recall a decked our AR and shottie in this mix), and when they busted one guy he was walking and they pulled up guns out and captured him,

Now normally I would say great they caught him, but I stated thinking what if that was me, innocent, out for a walk, and they cruised up drive-by style guns out, If I had a CCW there would have been a tragedy (and most likely no more Gunnerpalace), as I'm now and they did that, I would have sued them into extinction. If you do this for a living be darn sure you have the guy before you jump.

 

[CWL]

Dog is an ex-con having served time for murder IIRC, he is also in HI, which has very strict CCW laws.