I think we're headed in that direction. The police are losing the media battle. Too many viral videos like that old guy that got his head cracked open because he wasn't smart enough to step aside, or maybe he had dementia. Who cares how it happened, it happened and the police got some really bad media coverage. There have been a few incidents around here where the police shot drugged up unarmed street people. That doesn't play well with folks who drive their BMW's to work and live on the lake. They expect much better from their civil servants. Those are the people on the city counsels and in the mayors office. None of them have ever been on any front line. They just need to get reelected.
I see some cities becoming real shit holes without any police. The ones that do have police will have contracted private security companies to provide the services. It won't be cheap and they may even bill the property owners for the service like garbage disposal. City officials will no longer have to pay out large settlements for rouge cops and police unions will disappear. All very conveniently spelled out in the contract for services. Private security companies like Blackwater will pop up everywhere. The income for a private security professional will be enough that they won't mind going to a riot and they won't be afraid some mayor or police chief is going to hang them out to dry because they shot some dude while blasting away with an AR or throwing a molotov cocktail. And the biggest plus of all, they will have the mindset and training they need to do the job.
I saw this happen where I worked. We used to provide professional services on projects that were owned by the county. Because we were union we had some difficulty with marginal employees that affected our performance. Management found it much easier and cheaper to let the contractor deal with the professional services and write that cost into the bid. Our professional services at that time were about 2K/day in the private sector. I know how it worked because I had experience in both the private and public sector.
Last edited by Borderland; 06-05-2020 at 10:44 PM.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
One of the criticisms out of the DOJ investigation into Ferguson PD was that much of their budget was provided through fine revenue, leading to intense pressure on officers’ enforcement actions and subsequent community legal entanglements. We already have private, for-profit correctional institutions which are pretty widely reviled. I’m not sure the profit motive has a legitimate role in the justice system.
Anything I post is my opinion alone as a private citizen.
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Not another dime.
(This might have been posted somewhere already... if so, I missed it before now.)
It's a long article, with a tonne of new information. You'll want to read it for yourself, if you haven't already.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...son-Texas.html
I’m honestly not sure what you’re trying to say, although that website has some sovereign citizen overtones.
My whole point was bad things happen when the profit motive creeps into the justice system, let alone a privatized/contracted LE force being discussed. It would be ripe for negative influences and outcomes.
Anything I post is my opinion alone as a private citizen.