SpokenTruth said:
In the US, the word police is legally allowed to be used by all private security entitites. In fact, the legal distinction is public police (sponsoreed by a government body) and private police (sponsored by a private corporation). When they are private, common language simply calls them security though they are technically police. Some airport police are actually a branch of the local public police department but Chicago O'Hare is not one of them. |
Ok, thank you for explaining. It still feels weird to me.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
