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Leaders of Amazon,Google,Facebook and Twitter will say: “Okay, we’ll do it. Our companies will head up all police. Take a knee, cops. We’re the new bosses.”
If the preferred thing is special immunities for the state and those who work for them, amend the constitution. All should be equal before the law, both the people and their government.
That said, the firing of the officer, much less the prosecution of him, is insane. If there’s a poster child for malicious prosecution, this is it.
Escape Plan —> Arrest Plan
Sly and Arnold need something else to do.
Maybe we should embrace the idea of the “rule of law” and equal justice under the law.
Really bad idea. Boston tried private fire companies over a century ago. You can still see some plaques on old home telling which fire company to contact in case of fire. The problem was that, but the time someone fired out who to contact, the building was in ashes. Why would private police be any different. Indeed, it would likely be worse.
They will transform police to leftists. Careful.
This is such an interesting situation for conservatives. If you’re like me, you’ve railed plenty against the evils of unions especially public unions such as the ones for teachers. We know that these unions do more harm than good and their only interest perpetuate their own causes and to so partly by throwing their money around to support politicians who will in turn do their biding.
But we seem to have a blind spot to police and fire unions even though they’re often no better. Yes, we all support cops and want them to do well. But these unions are often the reason so many bad and incompetent cops remain on the payroll (my opinion).
Forget defunding police. That’s a non-starter fomented by anarchists and idiots. But we should seriously support breaking up police unions. So if privatization is the best way forward to achieve that, count me in.
Here’s a GREAT Chief of Police...
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/6/editorial-eliminating-gun-crime/
Riot in the Motor City? Not so much. HOORAY Detroit citizens! HOORAY Chief! HOORAY Mayor! HOORAY Wayne County Prosecutor!
Rioting in the streets? How about some...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdvITn5cAVc
MOTOWN, BABY!
Gregg Gutfield on the Five, I think was being serious, when he suggested, only let black cops respond to black perps, and white cops respond to white perps.
Completely remove the racial component from the encounter.
“They also could not be required to enter dangerous situations..”
They aren’t required to do that now. SCOTUS has been crystal clear on this more than once.
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It’s time to do something.
This is a very good article. It reflects the comments I made here on FR when the whole discussion about eliminating “qualified immunity” for the police came up a couple of weeks ago.
Privatizing the police?
Sure. Why Not? Antifa, BLM, New Black Panthers, Hells Angels and many other private groups stand ready, willing and able to bid the job.
In other words, if an officer is taught by his department to fire his weapon at a man who has stolen his taser even if that man is running away while firing that taser at the officer, should that officer be charged with a crime for following that procedure?
Yes. I would recommend brown uniforms and armbands.
Maybe it’s time to tell the effing libertarian retards at The Federalist to go eff themselves.
They’re already overly revenue driven. The special protections were always a bad idea. They get all this training and equipment, they should be held to a higher standard.
Rural Metro Fire, founded in 1948, is an American private fire department that provides fire protection and emergency medical services to individual homeowners and commercial businesses in unincorporated locations throughout the United States, primarily under a subscription-based model. Municipalities and fire districts also contract Rural Metro to provide fire protection, prevention and emergency medical services.
This sounds like a great business model for private police departments. There are hundreds of unincorporated villages and towns too poor, or caught up in litigation, to have their own police department. For the most part they have been relying on *minimal* help from their counties.
Contracting with a private police department would save them a ton of money, and might even get them all three services: police, fire, rescue and ambulance. Paid for with taxes, by subscription, or a combination of both, or by billing for services after the fact.