Introduction The CLB is wending its way through Indiana’s “Odd Cops.” If you missed Part One: Special Deputies, you can find it in Featured Articles of December, 2017. Town cops, or town marshals, are an oddity becoming odder as more and more incorporated towns opt to establish police departments. Statutes A town marshal or deputy […]
Introduction Previous Articles in the Odd Cops series have dealt with special deputies, campus cops, railroad cops, and conservation cops. The newcomers to the universe of odd cops are hospital cops, whose existence and authority are warranted by the inexplicably bad behavior seen too often at hospitals and particularly in the Emergency Rooms. Before 2013 […]
CORRECTION (8/5/19): In the second paragraph of the “Case Law” section herein I offered the observation that the drunken boating law formerly at IC 14-15-8-8 had been repealed in 2012. That was not repealed so much as it was hidden or moved to a spot where I did not think to look. I did look […]
Introduction This is the third installment in the CLB’s “Odd Cops” series following previous installments on Special Deputies and University Cops. This installment will focus on railroad cops. I’m reminded of the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid¹ featuring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as affable 1890’s Wyoming train robbers who picked on […]