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Re: Wouldn't switch said by Kearnstd:public safety by the private sector, "i am sorry mam your neighborhood isnt profitable to police". house burned down? sorry but your block also isnt profitable for fire protection. Right now, we have the opposite. Criminals get a free ride in all neighborhoods, and no one is responsible. To wit, "to protect and serve", the LAPD's motto, is only a slogan. The courts have ruled they have no such duty. People died when LAPD abandoned Florence & Normandy for political correctness.
We pay phenomenal taxes, only to have our assigned police diverted to other parts of the city. We are unprotected. When crime occurs, the departments announce "increased patrols", never bothering to account for when they took them away. People have died as a result, this year.
Our fire departments are used as public taxis to the hospital for freeloaders. Thanks to union control over staffing, many stations are closed, and taxpayers have died as a result, this very year.
Poverty does not cause crime. The impoverished may make better victims for the predators, but there is no cause and effect.
A case may, I say may, be made that some areas need public subsidy of a temporary nature for police, fire, and basic medical services. But those services can be contracted, instead of creating a permanent government bureaucracy that only exists to feed itself. |
