![]() ![]() The second bounty hunter, who had a mask on during the raid, was not charged because of problems with identifying him. In addition, Reinhardt’s family and his tenants upstairs, a family of four, filed a federal civil suit against the bounty hunters and the Buffalo Police Department and the officers involved. White did not have an active state license at the time of the raid, District Attorney John Flynn said. White, 35, of Buffalo, was charged with 10 misdemeanors, including criminal trespass, menacing in the second degree and endangering the welfare of children. In June, one of the bounty hunters, Dennis J. Reinhardt kept asking the bounty hunters for a search warrant, but they never had one. In addition, Reinhardt said he initially thought the bounty hunters were police officers because he noticed police cars parked on his street and several officers had surrounded his home in the Seneca-Babcock community. The problem is the bail jumper, who is homeowner Jake Reinhardt’s brother, was not in the house and has never lived there. On a cold night in January, two bounty hunters armed with long guns had terrified two families out of bed as they demanded access to search the duplex for a bail jumper. One recent case in Buffalo has reached a federal courtroom. That’s because bounty hunters are not “state actors” or government employees and therefore it becomes difficult to hold them legally liable for constitutional violations. Many victims who have tried suing bail companies or bounty hunters for civil rights violations have failed. “It is these abuses that must be curtailed, and these bounty hunters who must be controlled, and the duty falls on Congress to act to protect the American public,” he said. In his March 1998 testimony, Drimmer said that many bail companies and bounty hunters are responsible professionals, yet there remain, “recurring, frequent, and often tragic abuses at the hands of untrained and reckless bounty hunters that endanger the lives of American citizens nationwide.” “And so, the article and me associated with the article ended up getting a fair amount of attention in that mid- to late- 1990s time period and because there were really few other people who had spent much time writing and speaking about the legal component of it, I was asked to come present to Congress on two occasions.” “I’d written a fairly extensive academic article on the rights of private fugitives or capture rights of bounty hunters, and it was coming out right at a time where there were a number of high-profile incidents,” Drimmer said. ![]() He’s a bail education instructor in California and starred in the reality-TV show “National Geographic Inside: On The Run” and two other related shows in 2008. Rob Dick is one of the most famous bounty hunters in the world and an expert of the bail industry. Others believe such action is long overdue because when violations of people’s right do occur, they are serious. Some view the industry as unregulated and archaic.Ī recent raid in Buffalo by two bounty hunters armed with long guns again raises the question if the federal government should intervene with a set of standards or a new law to thwart bad actors.īounty hunters argue that the horror stories are too infrequent to require any federal oversight and there are consequences for bad actors who violate the law, anyway. Taintor allows bounty hunters to pursue fugitives across state lines and break and enter his house without a warrant, which are powers that law enforcement do not share. Opinions differed in the 1990s when Congress unsuccessfully considered new laws to stem misconduct in the bail industry, and they differ today. Bounty hunters have extraordinary powers bestowed to them from an 1872 Supreme Court case and in many cases, it is difficult to hold them or companies that hired them legally liable for civil rights violations because they are not government employees. ![]()
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