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That’s how it’s supposed to work. But these days who knows.

“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®"

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...

There is a small sense of irony reading the first 3 sentences before the paywall pops up and stops me from reading it entirely.

We basically have that in the US except the government has a monopoly on the police force. The libertarian police corp would be infinitely better as at least there would be competition for police services.

Um maybe because the government isn't supposed to work for profit but to enforce the law and do the right thing for victims and society?

If they're going to be only prosecuting crimes where there's something in it for them it's going to be a very unsafe society.

What about good old asset forfeiture to buy more swat toys?

Welcome to the world

Welcome to the US maybe. Here in Europe it's not like that, though there's certainly stuff going wrong. But not this, really.