What could go wrong?
One of the fringe benefits of this system, the ex-cons who will be patrolling the streets get to keep all the drugs and money they take off people.
Remember when Seattle ceded CHAZ to Antifa and Antifa started shooting black carjackers?
It just might work out...
That is how the law in the West was settled in many towns. Find the meanest, and most brazen bully in the gang of thugs down at the saloon, make him marshal, and let him round up and boot out all the other troublemakers. Of course, that only worked until some meaner and more brutal brazen bully rode into town.
Maybe someone should remind the mayor what happened when The Rolling Stones hire the Hell’s Angels for crowd control.
https://www.ranker.com/list/rolling-stones-hells-angels-security/erin-mccann