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Perhaps this is a also a growth opportunity for a private security firm. Call us, we will use our trained armed personnel to confront the suspects and return yo
by iramiller 12y ago
Perhaps this is a also a growth opportunity for a private security firm. Call us, we will use our trained armed personnel to confront the suspects and return your stuff.
I would hope that it would not take too many incidents of private security 'resolving' issues to see that a police force doing its job is a far more preferred solution.
- tantalor 12y agoJust call Phoenix Jones! Seriously, how much would you pay for private security to return your stolen iPhone?
- kybernetyk 12y agoMake it an insurance type of contract. Pay $9.95/mo and get your stuff back when it's stolen.
- jeangenie 12y agoThis idea is the basis for mafia and similar organizations the world over.
- jedberg 12y agoI don't think it is legal to use deadly force to retrieve stolen goods, yours or anyone else's. You'd have to staff your firm with off duty cops or something to skirt that law.
- rdl 12y agoYou don't use deadly force to retrieve the stolen goods; you use regular force to retrieve them (at a level supported by your insurer, which is far below the limits of the law), and then use deadly force if the thieves threaten your life in the course of doing so. (Even the police are not supposed to be using deadly force to apprehend property crimes; the justification for deadly force is officer safety or the safety of others.)
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoIn some states, you can use deadly force to prevent someone from stealing your stuff.
- npizzolato 12y agoBut after they've stolen it you don't get to track them down and use deadly force to get your stuff back.
- nroets 12y agoIndividuals contracting private security firms is rarely cost effective: For armed response to be effective, they need to be fast. So the firm needs a high geographic concentration. If they achieve that, they have a monopoly and can charge what they want. Paying collectively for security is much better.