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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy stop at healthcare? Why not make the police free-market as well?
Pay for the crimes YOU want! Basic packages include murder coverage and theft coverage. But if you want to be protected from crimes like assault or vandalism it'll cost extra. If a crime is committed against you then obviously your premiums will rise. And don't forget you may be rejected for preexisting conditions like living in a poor neighborhood or not being white. Predictably, premiums will be higher for women, especially if they opt for the rape and sexual assault packages, as they have a predisposition for being victims of those crimes; so don't worry us men won't need to cover the costs
If you don't get covered that's your choice and people will be able to do anything they want to you with impunity. Tough luck poors, you should've thought of that before you bought your iPhone that you dialed 911 on (btw the number is different for each police protection provider now so 911 won't work unless you carry a policy with that PD).
As Paul Ryan says "That's freedom"!
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)untrained, non union personnel.
Another dream of the rightwing.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)Your mortgage company might foreclose if you get behind.
AJT
(5,240 posts)SOUTH FULTON, Tenn. -- Firefighters stood by and watched a Tennessee house burn to the ground earlier this week because the homeowners didn't pay the annual subscription fee for fire service.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)They might just do that.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)little chance this would happen.
"A standing army and police are the chief instruments of state power." ~V. I. Lenin
2naSalit
(86,057 posts)these agencies have not already or about to be infiltrated by blackwater types... which I think is the case.
ananda
(28,783 posts)Mercenary cops.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)long term goal. Blackwater everywhere.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)gangster protection.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Aristus
(66,095 posts)It postulates a hypercapitalistic world where everything is run on 'free-market' principles.
The police and the NRA are both private mercenary organizations. The government's only real function is to investigate crime. And they are absolutely bound by budget limits. "Sell your iPhone" is not too far off the mark. The main character is only able to investigate a murder if the victim's family sell their house to pay for the investigation.
It's very unsubtle social satire, and funny in places. But by and large, it's a frightening look at the kind of world Paul Ryan seems to want.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and some other countries.
esp. for fire depts.
There was very little social net, and it seems that people like Rtan, et al are constnatly working at the
"I've got mine, FU everyone else".
But now that thinking is in the WH.....
Cirque du So-What
(25,812 posts)PDs have always existed to look out for the interests of the 1% - even though they're paid with money taken from all of us. Anyone who's ever walked a picket line will attest to that. Anyone who's taken a critical look at the relative levels of police coverage and response times between rich enclaves and poor neighborhoods will back me up on that.
Jonny Appleseed
(960 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,812 posts)The numerical advantage against them is insurmountable. Before long, even their mercenary forces would turn against them.
Oneironaut
(5,461 posts)"Have a nice day! Oh wait, you're dead."
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)(That's how it works with government, btw).
Also courts have ruled that police actually have no legal obligation to protect you.
Cattledog
(5,897 posts)Glitterati
(3,182 posts)Georgia's republican governor just told us this weekend, get use to paying tolls.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)Try reading the SF of L. Neil Smith, for example.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Private or Company Police in NC and full fledged police officers that have to meet the same standard of training and background as regular police. But instead of the jurisdiction being the government body that employs them it is the property of the owner or anyone contracted with the agency plus adjacent public roads. Inside that jurisdiction they have the same arrest, citation and use of force powers as police anywhere else do.
Usually these private police are found in large company's, railroads, large hospitals, etc. But I know of at least two that service high-income areas where there is limited Sheriff's department coverage and it is not an incorporated town. So wealthy homeowners, developments, resorts, etc contract with the private police force to get a higher level of service than the default level coming from the sheriffs department provides.
It definitely creates a two-tier level of service where you might wait 20 minutes for a Sheriffs Deputy to respond to a call while your neighbor who pays the fee gets a response in 3-5 minutes for the same call. That said when it's matters of lives at risk they will answer requests for the SO and respond anywhere they ask as mutual aid, so residents in the area who don't pay still get some extra benefit. They also run calls for the paid areas that take the load off the deputies freeing them up, so that is a slight benefit to the overall community as well. But still very much two tiers of service in that area depending on who you are and what you pay.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I'm sure they are thinking about it.
Initech
(99,915 posts)Jonny Appleseed
(960 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)Tanuki
(14,893 posts)Hell, why have a socialized White House, much less supporting Mar-A-Loco and Rapunzel in Trump Tower?
Beartracks
(12,761 posts)... the freedom to live your life free from tyranny, the way you want to -- NOT the "freedom" to die at the hands of free-market tyranny, the way you DON'T want to.
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