For this assignment I chose to do bounty hunters. There are a lot of people that are in this profession that like to be called fugitive recovery agents rather than bounty hunters. This is because when people hear bounty hunter, it tends to automatically make most think about negative things, or the first thing that comes to mind is something from the old days when people use to post dead or alive posters with an award on it. Some of the more accepted titles other than bounty hunter are bail bond recovery agent as mentioned before, bail officer, fugitive recovery officer, bail agent, bail enforcement agent, and fugitive recovery agent. Private investigators and bounty hunters have some of the same job duties in common which include, conducting interviews, performing surveillance, getting in contact with the subject, skip tracing which is when they track somebody to a current resident or location, and if a subject is located, some form of paperwork might be served. The private investigator could serve the individual legal papers and the bounty hunter could serve a warrant. The bounty hunter works with the bail bondsman in order to re-arrest the individual and place them in jail. This is usually because the bail bondsman’s client has not followed his or her bail contract. Usually the offense is when the individual fails to appear in court after promising to go.
The first bounty hunter is Pat Garrett, and he is the one responsible for hunting down Billy the Kid. His motivation was duty and the five hundred dollar reward that was put out by New Mexico’s governor. Billy the kid murdered anywhere between nine and twenty one people. Pat Garrett was born in Alabama and as he grew up he moved to New Mexico where he had work as a cowboy. Pat Garrett was made sheriff of Lincoln County New Mexico in 1880. He was the leader of the posse that got a hold or captured Billy the Kid. Garrett went into a house in Fort Sumner where Billy the Kid was hiding out in, and shot him to death. Many years later Pat Garrett had some issues with money and was murdered by shooting and under peculiar circumstances.
The second bounty hunter is a native from Kentucky named John Riley Duncan. Duncan was a private investigator and detective in Texas in 1877. He was responsible for capturing John Wesley Harding, a famous outlaw. John Riley Duncan would pretend like he was a hobo to keep the attention away from him. He was very successful as a bounty hunter, and he captured twenty or more outlaws. In 1878 Duncan was in a brothel in Dallas Texas he was shot in the throat and almost died. After he recovered he still went on to hunt outlaws. After being shot in the neck, Duncan had to use a silver tube that he would insert into his tracheotomy hole in order to breathe.
The third bounty hunter is Rick Crouch who was born in South Africa in 1960. He was not only a bounty hunter in United States but he was also a human rights activist, not to mention an elected official in his own country of Africa. He was forced out of South Africa after getting involved in the anti-apartheid movement. After he was forced out of Africa he started his own private investigation company in Los Angeles California and was also a commercial pilot. Crouch went back to South Africa in 2006, where he was nominated as counselor of the city.
An example of a wrongdoing is somewhat from a personal vantage point. I used to work for a security company (without mentioning any names), that covered up an event where at least six of my fellow security officers were involved in robbing a TV and appliance store. What happened was that this group of people had planned out that the patrol officer would do his normal rounds, and upon showing up to the store would call a report after the thievery was complete, and say that the place had been robbed. The owner of the company turned a blind eye and went to bat for his employees who were actually the criminals. The security company I worked for was not found guilty.
In my opinion having nongovernmental police and security agencies is a good idea. The reason I feel this way is because it provides a balance of power between private sectors and local government. For obvious reasons the police cannot be everywhere, so these types of agencies help out by reducing the amount of crime by being in the places that the police cannot be. I feel as if the rules should be across the board within the sectors whether it is private, or public. Security agencies can help a community feel safer by simply being seen. I do not believe all security officers should have the right to carry a gun however; they should be trained with personal protection objects such as a baton.

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