Privatizing police

[CJ]

i get the court system and jurisdiction and how it works but was just wondering how it would change it if it law enforcement went private, I guess it wouldn’t have to change. Would we have a private police force for the city a private sheriffs office a private highway patrol and so on? Seems like a lot of greedy business people would be getting in the business of making their private police force or the wrong reasons $$$ rather public service

I'm definitely a free market guy, as I firmly believe that a free market will weed out a lot of bullshit. But I also believe there are SOME things that can't be for profit and/or need regulation for the greater good/safety of the public.

 

[Sicwun88]

Like everything else,
In the end it will become corrupt!

 

[Texan69]

Something that comes to mind to maybe help increase police performance is lift the minimum age from 21 to maybe 25-26 and require an officer does field training for one year. Make the rookie ride with a training officer for one full year before he is on his own.
I joined the marines right when I turned 18 left 3 days after graduation. But I can tell you if I tried to become at a cop at 21 with no marine corps experience before I think I wouldn’t have been ready. I can tell you being a cop is way more responsibility being a marine
at least a private through sergeant. Nobody is there to hold your hand as a cop like they did in the marines.
21 years old for most men is still a child in my opinion

 

[Big Mikey]

There was what amounted to a private police force during Germany's Wiemar Republic days. The, Sturmabteilung, or the SA for short. They were the National Socialists Party's (the Nazis) private security force. They did security for Nazi Rallies, beat up on opposition party officials, harassed Jews and generally did what their leader, Ernst Rhom told them to do. When the Wiemar republic's leader, Paul Von Hindenburg died, thus making his vice chancellor, Hitler, the leader of Germany, the SA were the most powerful security force in the Country. So much so they made the Wehrmacht high command nervous for having too much control. Hitler needed to secure loyalty from the army, so he had Ernst, Rhom & the rest of the SA's command structure murdered on the so called "night of the long knives." He then absorbed the remaining SA into Heinrich Himmer's organization, the Schutzstaffel, AKA the SS. We all know (or at least should know) the staggering level of atrocity the SS were responsible for.
So with that piece of history in mind, a privatized police force is a stupid, wildly dangerous idea.

 

[Jin]

There was what amounted to a private police force during Germany's Wiemar Republic days. The, Sturmabteilung, or the SA for short. They were the National Socialists Party's (the Nazis) private security force. They did security for Nazi Rallies, beat up on opposition party officials, harassed Jews and generally did what their leader, Ernst Rhom told them to do. When the Wiemar republic's leader, Paul Von Hindenburg died, thus making his vice chancellor, Hitler, the leader of Germany, the SA were the most powerful security force in the Country. So much so they made the Wehrmacht high command nervous for having too much control. Hitler needed to secure loyalty from the army, so he had Ernst, Rhom & the rest of the SA's command structure murdered on the so called "night of the long knives." He then absorbed the remaining SA into Heinrich Himmer's organization, the Schutzstaffel, AKA the SS. We all know (or at least should know) the staggering level of atrocity the SS were responsible for.
So with that piece of history in mind, a privatized police force is a stupid, wildly dangerous idea.

But that ALREADY happened. Is it really likely to repeat itself?

 

[BRICKS]

But that ALREADY happened. Is it really likely to repeat itself?

Rhetorical question right?

History is rife with examples of it repeating itself, from the grand scale down to individuals daily. Man's incapacity to learn from his mistakes astounds me. How many examples of socialism failing horribly are there? Yet half of this country would take that direction. My guess would be a privatization of the police would skip most of those steps listed in the above post and go straight to the shit.

 

[Big Mikey]

But that ALREADY happened. Is it really likely to repeat itself?

It's more of a lesson in the inherent dangers of giving police powers over to an organization that's working with an extremely bias agenda. A CEO of a privately held company could foreseeably institute a draconian policing system with a private security company given the same unilateral powers a state controlled police force has.