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The dichotomy you present implies that governments can't contract out efforts to make people safer. I don't see the logic behind that. Separately, governments
by natrius 16y ago
The dichotomy you present implies that governments can't contract out efforts to make people safer. I don't see the logic behind that.
Separately, governments are perfectly capable of using law enforcement as a revenue generator, so that downside isn't specific to private companies.
- rmc 16y agoThe solution is to not let the private company get a commission. It should be a flat fee. Ireland recently outsourced some 'speed vans' to catch people speeding. They went to great pains at launch to point out the company wasn't getting commission.
- pmorici 16y agoI'm implying that a for profit company has no motive to double check the tickets they send out it is to their advantage to send out false tickets because there is no penalty to them for the government eventually loosing the court case. In this case the ticket was like $80 for a minor speeding infraction, 6 over the limit. I took a half day off my job to dispute that I had to drive to the very heard of down town in a busy metro area to get to the court house. Tell me if I had any common sense and no principles what is it that I should have done? That isn't to say the government doesn't have the same motive to maximize revenue but I can't imagine the instinct being as strong as for a for profit company.