If one stands back to look at this landscape....it’s pretty much how South Africa is ‘painted’ today....public police and private police. Public police only show up after a body is reported.
That’s a good point, though I suspect many cops here make a LOT more than South African police.
We’ll need something along the lines of a mix of the “strategic hamlet” and kaiserjager, where local people have to look after themselves/serve as the first line of defense. The strategic hamlet program failed in Vietnam because they uprooted people and brought them into clusters; we’re already living in the hamlets (and in many cases, with like-minded people at least in terms of security).