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Should police be privately contracted?

Should police be privately contracted?

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radcen

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Should police be privately contracted?

Police as in your local city police department, county sheriff, and maybe even your state police. Would it be a good idea to remove direct government involvement and contract this out to private companies?
 
Absolutely not. It's one of the worst ideas I can imagine, actually.
 
radcen said:
Should police be privately contracted?

Police as in your local city police department, county sheriff, and maybe even your state police. Would it be a good idea to remove direct government involvement and contract this out to private companies?
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No way, José.

What good would that do, anyhow?
 
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radcen said:
Should police be privately contracted?

Police as in your local city police department, county sheriff, and maybe even your state police. Would it be a good idea to remove direct government involvement and contract this out to private companies?
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Yes, it keeps the city off the hook for cop screw-ups and I guarantee you won't see any more "shot an unarmed person; received a month of paid leave" style situations. With the city no longer on the hook for screw ups I bet it would lead to a more competent force. And it'll be a lot easier to dismiss the Gomer Pyles too.
 
Most should be federalized or taken over by Sherriff departments.
 
radcen said:
Should police be privately contracted?

Police as in your local city police department, county sheriff, and maybe even your state police. Would it be a good idea to remove direct government involvement and contract this out to private companies?
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What possible advantage would that yield? Would these private police forces be paid per arrest (conviction?), based on a reduction in crime rates or simply handed ever more money each year just like the public police are?
 
chuckiechan said:
Are you going to give a private company the power to arrest someone?
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Private individuals all have powers of arrest. Also we have railroad police departments that have law enforcement powers on RR property and in some states certain private entities may be allowed to form police departments with LE powers on private property, I do not agree with contracting out government level policing, but what you ask is already being done in certain cases
 
radcen said:
Should police be privately contracted?

Police as in your local city police department, county sheriff, and maybe even your state police. Would it be a good idea to remove direct government involvement and contract this out to private companies?
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Oh Jesus Christ, no.
 
radcen said:
Should police be privately contracted?
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Oh hell no, that's all we need is a greedy corporation running the police. And yes, it would be worse than the city running it now.
 
radcen said:
Should police be privately contracted?

Police as in your local city police department, county sheriff, and maybe even your state police. Would it be a good idea to remove direct government involvement and contract this out to private companies?
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you are crazy :mrgreen:
 
reinoe said:
Yes, it keeps the city off the hook for cop screw-ups and I guarantee you won't see any more "shot an unarmed person; received a month of paid leave" style situations. With the city no longer on the hook for screw ups I bet it would lead to a more competent force. And it'll be a lot easier to dismiss the Gomer Pyles too.
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If it's anything like private prisons that's most likely not correct: Pressured to maximize profits by any means possible, guards are paid rock bottom prices. The result is a system in which guards are not motivated to stop fights or lift a finger for the benefit of the prisoners whatsoever.

The other question, as somebody already brought up, is what is the metric by which such a privatized police force would receive funding? Is it by the arrest or by reported crimes? Either would be vulnerable to massive abuse, the former by forced and unjustified arrests, the latter by under arresting and reporting in order to inflate positive numbers.

Would such a privatized police force be like internet providers? Then remote and "undesirable" districts would not be policed.
 
What in the?
 
reinoe said:
Yes, it keeps the city off the hook for cop screw-ups and I guarantee you won't see any more "shot an unarmed person; received a month of paid leave" style situations. With the city no longer on the hook for screw ups I bet it would lead to a more competent force. And it'll be a lot easier to dismiss the Gomer Pyles too.
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What in the heck gave you the idea they wouldn't?

Blackwater gave bonuses to its civilian-slaughtering mercenaries. HMOs gave bonuses to medical reviewers, doctors and hospitals for denying care for its paying customers to increase its profit margin ... were you around when Dr. Linda Peeno testified before Congress on this?
 
radcen said:
Should police be privately contracted?

Police as in your local city police department, county sheriff, and maybe even your state police. Would it be a good idea to remove direct government involvement and contract this out to private companies?
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Not only no but hell no. Law enforcement shouldn't be motivated by profit.
 
:lol: I like how people don't realize that having anyone with the authority to kidnap people is a bad idea. Instead they focus on the evilness of private enterprise and suggest the power to kidnap people would be abused. Because obviously the power to kidnap people isn't problematic no matter who does it.
 
Henrin said:
:lol: I like how people don't realize that having anyone with the authority to kidnap people is a bad idea. Instead they focus on the evilness of private enterprise and suggest the power to kidnap people would be abused. Because obviously the power to kidnap people isn't problematic no matter who does it.
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The poll isn't about kidnapping people.
 
Henrin said:
:lol: I like how people don't realize that having anyone with the authority to kidnap people is a bad idea. Instead they focus on the evilness of private enterprise and suggest the power to kidnap people would be abused. Because obviously the power to kidnap people isn't problematic no matter who does it.
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No offense intended, but I read this three times and each time my response was, "Huh???"
 
radcen said:
No offense intended, but I read this three times and each time my response was, "Huh???"
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Arresting people is more or less legalized kidnapping. The government holds this power exclusively to enforce laws that they themselves have come up with. Basically the government comes up with reasons they will decide to kidnap you and to the most part no one has a problem with this rather one sided affair. The people even want this same organization that holds the monopoly on law and arresting people to have the monopoly on housing those people they kidnap, but as soon private enterprise gets mentioned to do any one of these same exact things that are at the moment monopolized the entire notion of it is outrageous.
 
Dear lord, no. Corporatism has already proven aplenty the hazards of the privatization of far less essential and intimate needs. Privatization of the police sounds like a dangerously potent recipe to an Orwellian dystopia.
 
radcen said:
No offense intended, but I read this three times and each time my response was, "Huh???"
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I think he's trying to argue no one should be arrested for anything, ever.

Not that /that/ would entirely clear up a "Huh???"
 
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