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by colesantiago·6y ago·view on hn ↗
> When the community elects to police itself, if someone volunteers to watch a neighbourhood for a night are they considered law enforcement?

It is 'community enforcement', they volunteered didn't they, it's not by force, by state, or are being paid to do it.

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Sure, that's fine - my point is that a blanket "you can't be law enforcement" doesn't make this distinction. If you want to include something like that in your license, you need to be a lot more clear about what "law enforcement" entails. Right now it makes no mention of whether it's speaking about professional law enforcement, state-operated law enforcement, or anything like that.