Editing Police Statism (section)

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<blockquote>''Main Articles: [[File:Necon.png]] [[Neoconservatism]] and [[File:PatPaleoCon.png]] [[Paleoconservatism]]''</blockquote>

====[[File:Pinkerton.png]] Pinkertons====
In the 1850s, Allan Pinkerton, a Scottish detective and spy, met Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in a local Masonic Hall and formed the North-Western Police Agency, later known as the Pinkerton Agency. Among the business's early operations was to safely deliver the newly-elected President of the United States Abraham Lincoln to Washington D.C. in light of an assassination threat. Pinkerton detective Kate Warne was assigned and successfully delivered Lincoln to the US capital city through a series of disguises and related tactics that required her to stay awake throughout the entire long journey. As a result of the public notoriety of this success, the business adopted an open eye as its logo and the slogan, "We never sleep".

In the 1870s, Franklin B. Gowen, then president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, hired the agency to "investigate" the labor unions in the company's mines. A Pinkerton agent, James McParland, using the alias "James McKenna", infiltrated the Molly Maguires, a 19th-century secret society of mainly Irish-American coal miners, leading to the downfall of the labor organization. On July 6, 1892, during the Homestead Strike, 300 Pinkerton detectives from New York and Chicago were called in by Carnegie Steel's Henry Clay Frick to protect the Pittsburgh-area mill and strikebreakers. This resulted in a firefight and siege in which 16 men were killed, and 23 others were wounded. To restore order, two brigades of the Pennsylvania militia were called out by the Governor.

Due to its conflicts with labor unions, the word Pinkerton continues to be associated by labor organizers and union members with strikebreaking. Pinkertons diversified from labor spying following revelations publicized by the La Follette Committee hearings in 1937, and the firm's criminal detection work also suffered from the police modernization movement, which saw the rise of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the bolstering of detective branches and resources of the public police. With less of the labor and criminal investigation work on which Pinkertons thrived for decades, the company became increasingly involved in protection services, and in the 1960s, even the word "detective" disappeared from the agency's letterhead. The company now focuses on threat intelligence, risk management, executive protection, and active shooter response.

In 1999, the company was bought by Securitas AB, a Swedish security company, for $384 million, followed by the acquisition of the William J. Burns Detective Agency (founded in 1910), a longtime Pinkerton rival, to create (as a division of the parent) Securitas Security Services USA. Today, the company's headquarters are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is known for providing services to Amazon.

====[[File:COINTELPRO.png]] COINTELPRO====

[[File:COINTELPRO.png]] COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert and illegal projects actively conducted from 1956 to 1971 by [[File:FBI.png]] Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic American political organizations the FBI deemed subversive and a threat to national security. COINTELPRO was organized by the founder of FBI, J. Edgar Hoover who had by 1956 become increasingly frustrated by U.S. Supreme Court decisions that limited the Justice Department's ability to prosecute people for their political opinions, most notably communists. This lead to him initiating covert "dirty tricks" program under the name COINTELPRO with the original purpose of disrupting CPUSA and keeping close tabs on individuals with communist sympathies such as [[File:Chaplin.png]] Charlie Chaplin. COINTELPRO soon expanded to target a plethora of other organizations and movements which included [[File:Fem.png]] feminist organizations, [[File:Hippie.png]] The New Left and the anti–Vietnam War movement, and most notably the civil rights movement and [[File:Blacknat.png]] Black Power movement. Among the black activists and civil rights leaders targeted by COINTELPRO were [[File:Socneocon.png]] Bayard Rustin, [[File:MLK_Jr.png]] Martin Luther King Jr., [[File:MalcolmX.png]] Malcolm X, [[File:BlackMarxism.png]] Fred Hampton, [[File:Angela Davis.png]] Angela Davis, [[File:AntiRacism.png]] Viola Liuzzo, [[File:Mediastocracy flair.png]] Jessica Mitford, among many other. 

Every US President from the 1950s-1971, [[File:Ike.png]] Dwight D. Eisenhower, [[File:JFK.png]] JFK, [[File:Lyndon B. Johnson.png]] LBJ, and [[File:Nixon.png]] Richard Nixon was complicit in FBI's illegal activities to a certain extent and Attorney General [[File:RFK_Sr.png]] Robert F. Kennedy personally authorized some of the programs.

The program was secret until 1971 when the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI burgled an FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania, using the boxing match known as the Fight of the Century between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier in March 1971 as a cover to pull off the heist, took several dossiers, and exposed the program by passing this material to news agencies.

====[[File:FBI.png]] Wackenhut Private Security [[File:Corp.png]]====

[[File:FBI.png]] '''George Wackenhut''' was a former FBI agent and the founder of [[File:Corp.png]] the Wackenhut private security corporation. In 1951, Wackenhut joined the FBI as a special agent in Indianapolis and Atlanta and was tasked with handling counterfeit money and bad-check cases and tracking down Army deserters. He eventually resigned from the FBI to start his own private security company. The huge profits made from the Wackenhut corporation enabled its founder to live a lavish lifestyle in homes scattered throughout the US "Tyecliffe Castle", or "Castle Wackenhut" in Coral Gables, near Miami. George Wackenhut was known as a hard-line right-winger and built up dossiers on Americans suspected of being [[File:ML.png]] Communists or [[File:Soc-h.png]] left-leaning "subversives and sympathizers" and sold the information to interested parties. By the late, 1960s Wackenhut held files onthan  more 4 million names of suspected "dissidents."  In 1975, after the United States Congress investigated companies that had private files, Wackenhut gave its files to the now-defunct anti-Communist Church League of America of Wheaton, Illinois.

Wackenhut sold his company for $570 million in 2002 to Danish corporation Group 4 Falck which then merged to form British company G4S in 2004. G4S provides security to specific government and corporate sectors: energy, utilities, and chemical/petrochemical, financial institutions, hospitals, and healthcare facilities, major corporations and the construction industry, ports and airports, residential communities, retail and commercial real estate, and transit systems. In 2010, G4S Wackenhut changed its name to G4S Secure Solutions (USA) to reflect the new business model.

====[[File:Cball-Arizona.png]] Joe Arpaio====
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====[[File:Giuliani.png]] Rudy Giuliani====
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====[[File:AntiDrug.png]][[File:Nixon.png]][[File:Reagan.png]][[File:Clinton.png]] War on Drugs====
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====[[File:ICE.png]] ICE====
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