[yunesj]

> 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]

But what about when entire municipal police forces are privatized?

[yunesj]

Then, after a short while, we’d probably have little violent crime, police misconduct, and wasteful spending.

[Seattle3503]

Sounds like we successfully defunded the police.

[lliamander]

What if they start bashing straight white people? Our current government does do that as well.

[gowld]

When they come to bash your head in, it doesn't help if you "stop supporting them" .

[kibwen]

As your skull is stoved in, you smile to yourself, euphoric in the knowledge that the market will eventually reach an equilbrium.

[eikenberry]

Is being able to do something is better than being able to do nothing? You're saying it isn't.

[hannasanarion]

hoping 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]

False premise. The idea that this will work better with a market solution is laughable.

[lliamander]

Your description of how a market solution to policing might fail is how government policing already does fail.