[Freeport]

What say you? I'm of two minds: If it works, use it. But this is an accountable police chief issue I think. i.e. If the police chief's of this nation are trained wrong, implementing the wrong strategies to get ahead of crime, why not retrain instead?

Again... of two minds on this one.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Or maybe the cops were in cahoots with the crime circles?

[cripplecreek]

Who are crimes reported to now?

[exDemMom]

This article is a little misleading. The title implies that the town completely ditched law enforcement professionals, which is not the case. Instead, they replaced public cops with a private contracted security firm, and the security firm uses data analysis to decide where and how to place its personnel. Furthermore, it appears that there is more on-the-street coverage than when there were public cops.

So it is not a case where a town completely got rid of law enforcement. On the contrary, the town instituted a more effective system of law enforcement.

[Darksheare]

It reminds me a bit of the David Dinkins admin in NYC deciding to “just not report or prosecute” crime and this would magically make the crime rate drop.

[Lurker]

I like it. Actual free market accountability in law enforcement. And no ridiculous public sector pension plans.

[Mechanicos]

Always suspicious when the ones saying crime has dropped are the ones who have a profit motive to not record crimes. Like NYC has done - crime is the same or higher - but they do not call most formerly criminal acts as “crime” and it does not make it into the official reports as a “crime.”

But, replacing a corrupt union run force with a private one could cause such a positive effect. Would need to see if they pulled the trick of redefining terms and methods of reporting “crimes” like NYC did...

[Fresh Wind]

SEAL also relies heavily on crime statistics when it designs its patrol efforts.

That's RACIST!!

[epluribus_2]

Holders attorneys boarding plane as we speak. Law and order plus less government must be stopped.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Who records a crime? The cops. So you want the reporting of crime to go down, get rid of the cops.

[broken_arrow1]

Funny how things go away when you don’t look...

[HiTech RedNeck]

They contracted a police force that was more competent than the one they had.

Well guess what. The contractors want to be rehired. This gives them a greater impetus to try to do what is right. None of this yuk yuk yukking over doughnuts. The client matters.

[Poison Pill]

What say you? I'm of two minds: If it works, use it. But this is an accountable police chief issue I think.

Don't fret. ObamaLaw with be here soon so we'll have a national standard for all this.

[logic101.net]

The problem is that most police chiefs are liberals. Thus they have their hands tied by political correctness and other stupid liberal ideas. This is much the same problem that we have with public schools. The “smart people” come up with a “new” idea, so it must be better than the old ways that have been working for hundreds of years. To make matters worse, since they are liberals they can’t understand that their idea didn’t work so they feel they just need to do more of it, in other words they double down. This creates a downward spiral.

[rfreedom4u]

I wonder if a portion of the drop in crime is due to the new security firm not arresting people for petty things like weed or other things that are “victimless” crimes?

[arthurus]

With the FedGov nationalizing local police, this is a better option. I have been heretofore ambivalent but am not any more.

[T-Bone Texan]

SEAL also patrols my hood. Westridge: Buff Spdwy near Main.

previously with the former company, perps would time thier hits on houses according to the predictable pattern of the company. It was a farce.

[kjam22]

I like the idea, but suspect the real crime that has dropped is traffic violations. And I’m good with that too...

[RedHeeler]

sputniknews.com? You bet.