Homeless in Arizona

Can rent-a-pigs write light rail tickets???

And that only cops could make arrests for misdemeanors.

Next my understanding of traffic tickets is that when you are stopped by the cops for a traffic violation that you are being arrested for a misdemeanor criminal violation. On course in Arizona traffic violations are usually civil violations, while a few of them are criminal violations.

Of course when you sign the traffic ticket the cops is essentially releasing you on our own recognizance. Which means the cop is letting you bail yourself out of jail by signing the ticket.

Now unless there is something in the ARS or Arizona Revised Statutes that says otherwise I suspect that means that civilians are not allowed to write people traffic tickets for misdemeanor or civil violations.

With that in mind is it legal for the light rail narcs to write people tickets for riding on the light rail without paying.

Now on the Phoenix side of the light rail line they use real live Phoenix cops to write people tickets for riding on the light rail without paying so that certainly is 100 percent legal.

Of course on the Tempe and Mesa side of the light rail line all the light rail narcs are not real live cops but rather rent-a-pigs or rent-a-cops.

And since those rent-a-pigs are not real live piggies I wonder if it is legal for them to write those misdemeanor light rail tickets.

Can DTC rent-a-pigs write parking tickets or citations???

DTC or Downtown Tempe Community is a private, non-government corporation that does a lot of stuff in Downtown Tempe and one of those functions is writing parking or traffic tickets in Downtown Tempe.

Civilian DTC employees write those traffic tickets, parking tickets. traffic citations, parking citations or whatever you want to call them.

I wonder if that is legal? For civilians to write traffic tickets in Downtown Tempe?