If your long term plan was to privatize even the police
would you not ensure that you do to them what you have done to unions, teachers, and civil servants- so that people would support your agenda? I smell Hayek/Friedman and the Reagan/Thatcher neo-liberals everywhere.
Remember Bushco privatized vast sections of the military and intelligence.
Discuss.
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While the police are acting badly (clearly) - they are acting badly in a way that most conservatoids support. If I wanted to get support for a privatized police force I'd do my best to set them up as both incompetent and held back by bureaucratic nonsense. Think of how many cop movies show cops that want to go after the bad guy but they are ordered not to by bureaucrats. While Riots are good in that strategy ("Why can't our cops stop the riots? Wishy washy liberals tie their hands."
the images of cops murdering black people weakens it considerably.
I'll grant that too most of our conservative friends these unarmed black men who cops keep killing deserved it (to be clear - many Conservatives believe that black people people are criminal generally) - it does shoot holes in the idea that cops can't go after the real "bad guys." Clearly they can gun them down with impunity.
Calls right now to reform the police are far more likely to come from the left wing folks who don't want to see any more murders, and that also doesn't play into the privitization scheme.
Bryant
