We should be privatizing education, incarceration, road building-the list is limited only by our imagination and our ability to set up and oversee standards.
Posted on 08/02/2015 6:57:01 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
MEET Sidney Torres IV, the suave New Orleans businessman who is taking policing the city’s crime-ridden streets into his own hands.
The wealthy real estate developer was sick of the painfully slow police response to widespread gunfights, theft and drug offences, so he created an Uber-style app to clean up his neighbourhood.
He bought a fleet of black Polaris Rangers, fitted with blue flashing lights and iPads to deal with requests, and hired off-duty police officers as his team. The former waste disposal mogul, who managed a network of garbage trucks, told The New York Times: “I’m handling crime the same way I did trash.”
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NO doesnt have a police department.
They just have a well-equipped gang with badges.
Hey Mayor For Life Bloomersberg. Do some good for a change. Follow this guys lead and use some of your cash to clean up N.Y.C. Maybe buy guns for all of the good guys and let them carry. Moneyed people in Detroit, Chicago, etc might follow you. Then you would be a real hero.
And no wonder. I used to frequent N.O. on business. Twenty years ago a cop’s salary was $12,000 per year. No wonder they turned to crime to augment their pay.
Also, when I moved to Houston in the late 60s, the Harris County sheriff, Buster Kern, patrolled the Houston streets at night in his limo with a 12-gauge.
I wonder if the people in New Orleans think he’s conservative enough. Or if they’re checking out his twenty year old statements to see how conservative he was then. /s
So he’s just expanded his garbage collection business ...
Give that post an AWARD!
We should be privatizing education, incarceration, road building-the list is limited only by our imagination and our ability to set up and oversee standards.
Well said.
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The criminal justice system in our country is broken. Vigilante justice will begin to increase as a result of the governmental dysfunction.
“...limited only by our imagination and our ability to set up and oversee standards.”
Can not the same be said of Public education, incarceration, road building, etc.?
Our ability to set up and oversee standards seems to be lacking.
If we aren’t careful, we’ll get the equivalent of HOA’s for education, incarceration, road building, etc., and we all know how we love HOA’s.
yep
I guess Mitch is too busy with his crusade to rid the city of all things Confederate, to pay attention to the basics of running a city that depends heavily on tourist dollars.
I noticed that we had to go to austrailia to learn of this.
bingo!
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