Police. Private or Public
So for those of you that don't know public (government run tax funded) police departments all over the nation have been plagued by budgetary issues lately. This has given rise to the private police firms basicly companies that employ armed secuety guards with arrest powers to patrol property owned by the companie's clientele. This has got me thinking could policeing be privetised? This issue has defenetly been brought up before and I want to hear some opinions about it. Personally I'm a pretty pro free market pro small government guy but (ready for the shocker) Im pro public (government run tax funded) police. First of all I just find law enforcement (insuring domestic tranquility) to be a legitimate role of government and while I generally oppose taxes I do support property tax as it goes towards things that benefit me directly (like law enforcement) so I consider it to be a good thing (I still hate the income tax though) but what do you think would you prefer to have public police patroling your streets or would you rather have rent-a-cops protecting you?
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Private companies must make profit which makes them dangerous militia. Someones private army that can legally arrest people. It would be significantly more expensive than public service. With the level of corruption in US government it would be same fail as private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. Side: Public
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