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Because city workers aren’t paid more to boot/tow more cars while private companies are. If the profit motive could be aligned with actual progress, somehow ob
by pj_mukh 3y ago
Because city workers aren’t paid more to boot/tow more cars while private companies are.
If the profit motive could be aligned with actual progress, somehow objectively measurable then contracting might makes sense.
- acdha 3y agoI’d add greater oversight, too: you can’t FOIA the internal policies or records of a private company, and if there’s some policy change you have to rebid or do a painful contract amendment. I think the appeal to privatization is sometimes corruption – when we lived in New Haven, at least two of the city’s tow contracts always went to cousins of council members – but mostly it’s the hope that magic pixie dust will avoid the need for competent oversight. As you noted that only works out when the incentives align, and I don’t see that here.