Private police forces are springing up in Rio de Janeiro because the government police aren’t doing the job well enough.
For as long as anyone can remember, the cracked asphalt soccer field in the Roquete Pinto slum was off-limits to children — “reserved” by gangs selling marijuana and cocaine. Then, a few months ago, a mysterious squad of beefy men with submachine guns started patrolling on foot, and the drug dealers disappeared.
It’s working, but the state likes to maintain its monopoly on the use of force, and the state doesn’t like it.
“It’s the state that establishes law and order, not the militia,” said Sergio Cabral, governor of Rio de Janeiro state. “We won’t accept this under any conditions.”
But it’s working so well that for now authorities have no choice but to turn a blind eye.
Link via Spontaneous Order.
http://www.civitas.org.uk/pubs/policeNine.php
“The Nine Principles of Policing”
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7. To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Seems #7 is the first one to go out of the window unfortunately.
These are the REAL police. It’s the state “police” that are the imposters.