Re: Privatizing Police Work

criminals are going to love this like muzzies love KBR

hopefully they will honestly publish their crime stats next year

On Nov 16, 10:08 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2011/10/privatizing-po...
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> Privatizing Police Work****
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>    - Nate Berg <http://www.theatlanticcities.com/authors/nate-berg/>****
>    - Oct 21, 2011****
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> Fighting crime is expensive. And if you're a small town with diminishing
> resources, the price of public safety can often be a heavy but necessary
> burden. One small town in Minnesota is attempting to slash its costs by
> outsourcing their police work to a private security firm.****
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> KARE-TV reports<http://www.kare11.com/news/article/943000/396/Minn-city-ditches-deput...>that
> the town of Foley, about 60 miles outside of Minneapolis, has handed
> over its police work to General Security Services Corporation, a private
> security provider that serves private homes, companies, commercial areas
> and government buildings. Full-time patrols will begin in January.****
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> The town of about 2,600 had previously been relying on sheriff's deputies
> from Benton County, who would patrol the city for 17.1 hours a day at a
> monthly cost of about $23,000 a month. The new deal with General Security
> Services will cost $98,500 for six months, or about $7,000 less per month
> than the cost of the sheriff's deputies.****
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> Private policing is increasingly common in cities across the U.S., though
> it's typically only used for a
> portion<http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/the-growth-of-privatized-poli...>of
> a city's public safety needs. It's a trend that's growing in cities
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> larger than Foley. Oakland, California, for example, hired a number of
> private security guards to
> patrol<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124027127337237011.html>a
> crime-ridden part of town in 2009. They got four private guards for
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> than the price of one police officer.****
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> But along with those savings come reduced services. Foley's private
> security guards will be able to patrol areas and make citizen arrests, but
> can't investigate crimes or perform traffic stops. That trade-off could be
> great for the city's budget, but there's also the possibility that the cost
> of crime outweighs the cost of savings.****
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