The class issue has been at work here before this issue.
The good spec op vets and most of the good street cops are now employed by the elites as private protection services.
In less than a year, any good cops will be working for the elites or as special protection units for high end home developments for the elites with good lawyers when needed.
The libertarian answer to everything — privatize it.
That’s often right, BTW, but not always.
You know those speed cameras? That’s what you get if you privatize policing.
Let’s just go with anarchy and Might is Right. It’s all we got anyway.
Will the city lower taxes since we won’t be protected anymore? Will open carry be permitted for citizens?
It’s going to be the old west again.
This is obviously a non-serious (sarcastic) article.
However, there is no reason why police is entirely public. Yes, they can be privatized or at least mostly privatized.
Fact is, police do not need to respond to a threat situation and there are many such examples (Virginia Tech. etc). Much of what is written here as if this would not work is actually already the case, even with a police that is public. This article tries to create BS issues like poor communities not being policed, but of course this isn’t the case. You would have a contract and private security firms would bid on this contract. All the neighborhoods would still be getting policed, just who is doing it would change...
Interestingly, the federal government uses armed private security firms to protect their own facilities including their law enforcement. Why? Far-far more cost effective. Many of the rich and even political leaders rely heavily on private security firms: https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/donald-trump-security-force-232797
So while this article is actually meant to sarcastically put down this idea of privatization, it’s actually a valid idea that should be explored if for no other reason to maximize the tax payers dollar (i.e. biggest bang for the buck).
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.
Well, no. If I need a cop I need a cop. Will we also adopt pure constitutional carry?
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?