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* You get a lot of these on college campuses, especially in the US. Larger, more prestigious, and wealthier schools (especially public colleges) can be important and influential enough to have their own police force. However, many other schools (normally smaller private colleges) tend to rely on the city police.
* There are privately-run prisons in the United States. There have been scandals in which these prisons bribe judges to send more inmates to them, increasing their profits.
* Overland traders in the old west regularly had these which is where the term "riding shotgun" comes from(because they guy beside a stage driver carried a shotgun. In point of fact this was one reason why American conquest of the Southwest desert area in the [[Mexican-American War]] was accepted locally; the local trading towns were more interested in local affairs and business was picking up because Americans could get traffic through in despite of raiders.
**Kit Carson was once a caravan guard in that area.
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