Sibirsky wrote:Mr Bananagrabber wrote:
Private firms? You mean firms who charge you directly after they do some policing for you?
Policing is a public service. It will always be done with tax money. The police don't get to charge you for services rendered. They get funds allocated from the govt. They are in no respect anything like a monopoly.
Private firms that get paid by a city government to provide a service.
But they don't charge the government. They can't dictate their budget.