Maybe It’s Time To Privatize The Police

The Federalist ^ | June 18, 2020 | David Marcus

[Red6]

You already have that.

You have folks hiring agitators to crash campaign rallies, to incite violence or provoke it... You have folks hired to intimidate at polling stations...

Privatizing police doesn’t change that. Besides, Hitlers storm troopers coincided with a state that still had a public police like we have.

[discostu]

And none of that will change if we privatize police. It’s not an either or world. Politicians AND police can both be responsible.

[Amberdawn]

I agree with you about the perfidy of politicians. My point is that civilian review boards exist and politicians get involved in controversial police actions, so why are bad cops still being protected? Someone isn’t doing the job they’re supposed to. Instead of stupidly defunding police, how about these CRB’s, PD’s and politicians do their jobs?

[Grimmy]

Imo, it’s more about time to start letting our crooked and incompetent politicers get acquainted with the gallows.

The root of the problem isn’t in the police. The root of the problem is in the political and corruption pressures that impact management of police and infest police leadership as political managers are promoted within the police.

Privatizing doesn’t solve a thing. Just creates new layers of things to go wrong and get out of control.

And then there’s the cost of doing business with humans and anything designed and populated with humans. There’s always gonna be scumbags that work their way into the system no matter how careful the checks and screens.

Motivating police, and police unions to be much more pro-active on screening out scumbags from their ranks would go a long way to helping the rest of the pop keep the faith in police and policing.

[gogeo]

Well, no. If I need a cop I need a cop. Will we also adopt pure constitutional carry?

[Red6]

I do not understand your point entirely. Please explain.

[Red6]

I bet if you had a private police (contracts where firms bid on them) you would get two ultimate outcomes:

1. Significantly lower costs.
2. Greater focus on how the community perceives the police, i.e. they want to keep the contract and are more responsive to the communities perceptions regards policing.

The police today is no magical entity. They are just another government organization may it be public schools, the USPS, or the VA. The average cop has no concept that the person they are interfacing with on the street is actually paying their salary and they would laugh if that were pointed out to them. There is a complete disconnect between customer and service provider, massive bureaucracy and inefficiency, a lot of political meddling, and absolutely no cost-benefit (ROI), real risk analysis or innovation at work. A police department is like a USPS with guns, and yes, you can privatize most of law enforcement.

Have vets generally benefited or lost as more private sector services have become available to them?

Has the public generally benefited or lost as private logistics firms like FEDEX, DHL and UPS entered the market?

Law Enforcement isn’t some magical realm where only a government solution is viable. No more so than those that support public schools and think there shouldn’t be vouchers, home schooling etc. BTW, how do private schools and home schooling stack up against public schools?

Government run = inefficient, non-customer responsive (you get what we give you and be happy with that), political, non-innovative (yesterdays technology tomorrow), expensive... Tell me anything government run that is a bench mark of efficiency?