Every one you can think of. Do you want gov't producing your cars? What about your healthcare? The principles that make decentralized markets effective don't change because the means of production* are different.
And BTW, who pays Blackwater?
Ok, how does this even work? I have a bunch of questions, serious questions, and some comments.
You have companies competing for business based upon their reputation and effectiveness, right? But everyone wants something different out of police. Some want hard ass, tough on crime, while others want community policing, while still others want minimal or no policing.
So policing a la carte, so to speak. Everyone gets the amount of policing they want to pay for, like insurance?
So person A wants the full package, so he goes with company, while person b wants a little less, and goes with company b. What happens if those two have a conflict and each call the cops and both companies arrive, or both have the same company.
Does the city decide what company and then each person decides how much coverage, or is it one levebof policing for the whole city, like it is now, only the city can hire or fire the company?
And how efficient is this model? Do you really think police work and learning a beat, history of the area and it’s people, history of the criminals is so easy to just simply pick up?
What if I can’t afford police? Do I get nothing, do I fend for myself? Or are we back to the city getting some level of coverage for all? So who decides what crimes the police will pay attention to, and how much effort goes into traffic enforcement versus patrolling? I know it could be similar to what happens now, where complaints are funneled through city council and onto police chief, or through crime watch meetings, or the officers observe what is happening and adjust what they do when not answering calls.
So those were my questions, my comments are not as involved, but observations based on almost 16 years. First, right now, besides some larger departments, officers answer calls and are pretty much on their own as to how they patrol.
The bullshit about quotas is mostly nonsense. I have not written a ticket in years. Not one word has ever been said to me about this. Granted, I am a lieutenant in charge of a whole shift and area of the city with 15 k people.
But I think a company that has profit incentive to write tickets and make arrests is not only immoral, but would be a fucking nightmare. You would have whole departments of little shithead traffic cops, but of course that is up to the company on how much money they want to make, and I am sure private companies would just want to serve and protect just like cops today.
I don’t like to lose cases or have cases unsolved, most cops feel the same way. Some don’t care at all. But if their very job depends on solving cases, they are going to make shit arrests and frame innocent people to close cases. It happens now, but there is relatively little pressure save some external and more internal pressure to solve cases. But if I don’t, I don’t lose my job.
The brass in a private police agency would be fanatic about cases getting solved and these would be businessmen and not police officers. Businessmen and pitchmen feeding the news advertising stories. Holy shit the level of self promotion from these private police agencies.
And not to mention, right now, police officers do the work because they want to go after criminals and make a difference. At least that is how they start out. With private policing, I see more security guard types and much less of what makes good cops. I sure as fuck would not work for a private company that wold move me around. Fuck that.
