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Are police services too important to be left to governmental provision?

|Peter Boettke|

Ed Stringham discusses the economics and historical record on private provision of police services.

 

Posted by on October 26, 2011 at 09:50 PM |

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Bonjour,

Non toujours pas et ça m’énerve !!! mais je cherche je m’approche et à chaque fois les conversation se termine avant mm de dire comment faire vraiment pas de chance.

Posted by: calvin klein pull | October 27, 2011 at 06:31 AM

Ed is right to point out that the poor would benefit most from relaxing restrictions on competition in policing. See his chapter in the NCPA's Enterprise Programs report:
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Enterprise-Programs-Freeing-Entrepreneurs-to-Provide-Essential-Services-for-the-Poor.pdf

The 1% don't need competitive markets, just the opposite. The least among us have the greatest need of market competition, as the Enterprise Programs report suggests.

Posted by: Roger Koppl | October 27, 2011 at 10:02 AM

Thanks to Roger for the link. States and localities routinely restrict private provision of needed public services. It's an issue that the Institute for Justice has repeatedly litigated.

Posted by: Jerry O'Driscoll | October 27, 2011 at 04:03 PM

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