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> Private citizens are not under the same legal scrutiny officers are Government police have qualified immunity and are not subject to market oversight. As you
by yunesj 5y ago
> Private citizens are not under the same legal scrutiny officers are
Government police have qualified immunity and are not subject to market oversight. As you might expect, this fundamental lack of accountability results in abuses, particularly of minorities, historically and presently.
I’m much less concerned about the Starbucks security guards becoming a gang. Unlike government police, as soon as they start bashing gay people or colored people, I can stop supporting them.
- barbecue_sauce 5y agoBut what about when entire municipal police forces are privatized?
- Seattle3503 5y agoSounds like we successfully defunded the police.
- yunesj 5y agoThen, after a short while, we’d probably have little violent crime, police misconduct, and wasteful spending.
- gowld 5y agoWhen they come to bash your head in, it doesn't help if you "stop supporting them" .
- kibwen 5y agoAs your skull is stoved in, you smile to yourself, euphoric in the knowledge that the market will eventually reach an equilbrium.
- eikenberry 5y agoIs being able to do something is better than being able to do nothing? You're saying it isn't.
- hannasanarion 5y agohoping that maybe enough people hear about your case and are motivated by it enough to change their spending habits even in the face of monopoly and violent threats isn't exactly "being able to do something" as a vigilante's bullet passes through your skull.
- anigbrowl 5y agoFalse premise. The idea that this will work better with a market solution is laughable.
- lliamander 5y agoYour description of how a market solution to policing might fail is how government policing already does fail.
- lliamander 5y agoWhat if they start bashing straight white people? Our current government does do that as well.