Bounty Hunting and Law Enforcement Practices

What many aspiring Bounty Hunters often stop thinking about is Bounty Hunting is division of the criminal justice system.  This means bounty agents work close with Law Enforcement officers.  Furthermore Bounty Hunters sometimes ignore the fact that a Law Enforcement background can lead to a much higher salary in the field of fugitive recovery.  Why is this?  Well, if you understand criminal behavior on a professional level you will track a fugitive faster, leading to a reward, secondly bail agencies will have much more confidence assigning agents with more experience.  Keep in mind a high profiled fugitive recovery assignment leads to higher rewards.

Bounty Hunters are private agents working for a bail bond agency, however they are still chasing the same criminals that law enforcement officers are seeking.  In some cases bounty hunters break laws unknowingly in pursuit of a fugitive, which can lead to the arrest of the bounty hunter by local law enforcement agents.  With a background in law enforcement a bounty hunter will never run into this problem because they are educated agents for local and state laws. 

On average, Bounty Hunters are using law enforcement practices to detain suspects in fugitive recovery scenarios.  Each moment in the field, up until the fugitives delivery to the justice system, a Bounty Hunter typically skip traces, follows the evidence, and uses law enforcement tactics to apprehend the subject.  Of course certain law enforcement tactics are not used in every scenario because laws change depending on which state the fugitive recovery agent is practicing.

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