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    There's no point in living like that. People simply have to come to an agreement if they want to live in peace. And the poor people are already forming mobs so I think privatising security isn't a bad idea.
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    Absolutily awesome for the poor, the poorer the easier after all, actually collecting is a different agency, here at least. Police is just too useless to be of any use, too dumb and lazy. Guns please.

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    Why do people think private security would fill the void? With no one watching over them they could do what ever the hell they liked and so would very quickly become protection rackets, also being private organisations they would undoubtably focus on the most profitable forms of policing ie: fines, lots of them.

    So you would be paying extortionate sums for protection and they would only really focus getting more money from you through fines, it would be far far worse than the current situation.


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    Quote Originally Posted by bobbin View Post
    Why do people think private security would fill the void? With no one watching over them they could do what ever the hell they liked and so would very quickly become protection rackets, also being private organisations they would undoubtably focus on the most profitable forms of policing ie: fines, lots of them.

    So you would be paying extortionate sums for protection and they would only really focus getting more money from you through fines, it would be far far worse than the current situation.
    Perhaps you ought to take a look at the police abuses thread. In the US, the police largely monitor and investigate themselves, so they can do a sham investigation of an officer killing someone for a door ringing prank and say nothing's wrong.

    And police are already focused on fines; whether it be speed traps or asset seizure, which involves taking any money they find on a person without charging them with a crime. To stop that, we need to remove the incentive, which means police departments shouldn't get any of the money or items they seize or any of the fines they charge.

    The answer, whether private or public security, is proper oversight and accountability. We don't have that in the US for the police, though I think it would be easier to get oversight on private companies than on the government police.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit View Post
    The answer, whether private or public security, is proper oversight and accountability.
    Well spoken. It's nice to see that we can agree on some-

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    I think it would be easier to get oversight on private companies than on the government police.
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    Building on what already mentioned. Who will actually investigate the commited crimes properly and who will be getting those nice police powers in that case?
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    Quote Originally Posted by jabarto View Post
    Well spoken. It's nice to see that we can agree on some-

    welp
    It's quite easy to see; which does the government come down hardest on - private companies or other government agencies?

    Why did Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac escape the regulations put on the private financial industry? Why is Blackwater investigated for killing people but prosecuting attorneys can lie, hide exculpatory evidence, etc., and not be punished? If my statement is incorrect, why do police officers get away with things that private security officers would be thrown in jail for decades for?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit View Post
    Perhaps you ought to take a look at the police abuses thread. In the US, the police largely monitor and investigate themselves, so they can do a sham investigation of an officer killing someone for a door ringing prank and say nothing's wrong.

    And police are already focused on fines; whether it be speed traps or asset seizure, which involves taking any money they find on a person without charging them with a crime. To stop that, we need to remove the incentive, which means police departments shouldn't get any of the money or items they seize or any of the fines they charge.

    The answer, whether private or public security, is proper oversight and accountability. We don't have that in the US for the police, though I think it would be easier to get oversight on private companies than on the government police.

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    My point wasn't that it doesn't happen with public police organizations but that it would be worse under private policing because they are driven by profit, this will undoubtably lead to to them over focusing on more profitable policing.

    A similar situation can be seen in the pharmaceutical industry where companies spend disproportionate amounts of money on designing things like anti-obesity drugs because they are more profitable, rather than new antibiotics or HIV drugs that would do more good and save more lives.

    Proper oversight is definitely a must but I don't think it would be any better for private companies, I mean look at the state the banks got into recently, it doesn't bear thinking about what would happen if something as vital as policing were to undergo a similar event.

    In Britain we have the IPPC that does the job of "policing the police" although it's not very good at it (the recent case of Ian Tomlinson a rather shocking example), the problem is that the police don't do their job properly not that the concept of goverment policing is wrong.


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