TRAINING PART ONE

Well now you are really confused. The amount of laws that have to be memorized is staggering. It's not so bad. Just remember knowledge is power. Those that have the knowledge have the power. Spend the time necessary to learn the laws of the jurisdiction in which you will be working. This is very important! Compliance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which you are working will always save you when things go awry and believe me at some point in your career things will go south. Sometimes even though there is state laws governing bounty hunters the local jurisdiction (county or city) may have their own set of rules in place. You want to keep law enforcement on your side, not against you. Thus, learn the local rules and become familiar with some of the law enforcement personnel. One of the greatest assets in the world that a bounty hunter could obtain is to have contacts in law enforcement that will help him when he or she needs them. You can't put a price on that kind of relationship.

Most bounty hunters have no formal training whatsoever. They haphazardly run around like rooster's in a hen house, if you will, strutting their stuff, waiting to grab on to their prey. The problem is most of them run around in circles for days on end with no direction shown. You can turn on the television set and watch almost any of the documentaries concerning bounty hunters and you will immediately realize that most of these persons have no training whatsoever. Every time one of these shows airs it seems to set the bail industry back 20 years. It causes the general consuming public to have the opinion that bail bondsmen, bounty hunters and the bail business in general have a lousy stigma attached to them. But that's TV. I guess the show would not sell if you did not have a bunch of Nim Rods running all over town looking for a fugitive. (I got the term Nim Rods from George Carlin.) These people are a disgrace to the profession. That's right, I said profession. Bounty Hunting is a professional business. Most all successful bounty hunters are true professionals.

Due to previous employment we were experienced in running credit checks and background information on various persons. We had some experience in martial arts and boxing. That being said, like most, we jumped into the bounty hunting business with both feet. That was our first mistake. We should have known better. I am part Cherokee and any Indian will tell you not to test how deep the water is with both feet at the same time. Yes, we jumped right in. In the first 6 days of bounty hunting Maria and I earned about $17,000.00. That's right, 17K! HOWEVER, and there always is a big however, in those six days I got the shit kicked out of me five times. I mean I got beat so bad that there wasn't any shit left in me after the last guy was finished kicking the living shit out of me. Yep! Oh yeah, we got our fugitives. Seven fugitives. All of them went to jail. I remember on the last two I could barely walk from the car to the door at the jail to book my fugitives.

That's when we realized (Duhhhhhh) that we had better obtain some training before we tried to capture anyone else. (Besides, I could barely walk and my whole body hurt so I really wasn't able to chase someone at this point.)

Telephone is ringing; I have to go. I have to take this call from a CI. (That's a confidential informant in case you do not watch TV.)

I will blog again as soon as I can and  next time I will touch on the Powers of Arrest, inter alia.

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