@nerdman @matrix That image is a meme. I 100% agree that private security would be more efficient than police. I think stores like Wal-Mart or Best Buy can benefit from having private security guards on the premise over relying on the city police.

@xianc78 @matrix

I'm undecided on the private police thing. I'm a minarchist and removing law enforcement from government is one of the last thing's I'd personally do.

I'm open to seeing it happening in places and working. Maybe a mixed system where police is state owned but you can contract them to do your security, legally?

@nerdman @matrix Police forces were actually mostly privatized up to the industrial revolution. I don't get why minarchists think that government police is required when it is a more recent invention. As an ancap, I really do believe that most people would have a basic grasp of the NAP and would know that if they aggressed on someone, the victim can aggressed them back or use private security to do that.

@xianc78 @matrix

Well until the industrial revolution the preferred method of governance was feudalism, and human beings were mostly private property in and of themselves.

I personally don't understand how a fully private police force can work with SOME measure of equanimity. If you're paying for the cops job why would you treat me correctly, that kind of thing.

Again. Not closed to it working. Just don't trust it until I see it ACTUALLY working for some time before subjecting myself to it. I'm kind of an empiricist old fogey.