Supporters of private policing have praised its economic benefits for both the public and private spheres. If a private security force patrols a gated community, the police department has more resources to focus its attention on high-crime neighborhoods. Further, the wealthy can assume the financial...
The chapter ends by weighing up the pros and cons of an expansion of this vast empire of crime-reductive agents.Sarre, RickUniversity of South AustraliaPalgrave Macmillan, Singapore
This chapter explains how a great deal of the responsibility for policing has shifted away from governments (the public police) to the private sector, typically through private security companies who are available under contract for governments and private businesses alike. Indeed, on some estimates t...
“the rate at which the prison-industrial complex is able to actually address rape and murder. We’ve spent astronomical amounts of our budgets at the municipal level, at the federal level, on policing and caging people. And yet I don’t think that people feel any safer from the threat ...