Should America privatize the police and fire stations?
would it be more cost effective to the consumer ?
would there be more cops or less cops and fire men and women? could everyone be covered? would there be different subscriptions for different areas? would they have the power to interpret laws as they see fit ? what if we see a sudden jump in fires or crime? will prices jump?
No, that wouldn’t ever be a good thing to do ever. It would become a total mess at best.
I wouldn’t want to have to be around if it ever went to some thing like that, since it would be and could be a lot of problems.
When you have a fire you want some one who knows what they are doing, they have had years of experience. The same goes when you call the police. I don’t know about you but if I need the police I want some one who knows what they are doing. Some one who been properly trained to do these jobs.
I believe that we would see a jump in fires and them not being put out as well as a jump in crime.
I don’t know about prices jumping but we as people would have a total mess on our hands.
If it’s not totally broken then lets not fix it. Just fine tune what we already have to help make it better, by adding more equipment where needed and more training where needed. By giving them the fund to make it better that is the way to make the system work better for us all.
I promise you, you do NOT want for-profit law enforcement, firefighting, or emergency medical services, though it’s already too late for EMS I’m afraid. The basis of firefighting and police both is that they are to serve all in their jurisdiction or response area equally. The municipality or government would simply wind up paying them instead of their own employees, over which they have much more control.
A formerly-all-volunteer Rescue Squad (EMS and Heavy Rescue) went all-paid several years ago. Oh, sure they have one or two volunteers on the books to keep their status, but they are a business now. They increased their fleet from four ambulances to over 30, and began doing interhospital, interfacility and private transports. I don’t have the stats, but I know there have been several problems with EMS calls waiting an inordinately long time, while ambulances were busy out of town, out of county, and out of state on money-making transports. Nah, give me good old straight-up responders please.
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No, that wouldn’t ever be a good thing to do ever. It would become a total mess at best.
I wouldn’t want to have to be around if it ever went to some thing like that, since it would be and could be a lot of problems.
When you have a fire you want some one who knows what they are doing, they have had years of experience. The same goes when you call the police. I don’t know about you but if I need the police I want some one who knows what they are doing. Some one who been properly trained to do these jobs.
I believe that we would see a jump in fires and them not being put out as well as a jump in crime.
I don’t know about prices jumping but we as people would have a total mess on our hands.
If it’s not totally broken then lets not fix it. Just fine tune what we already have to help make it better, by adding more equipment where needed and more training where needed. By giving them the fund to make it better that is the way to make the system work better for us all.
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Self, Retired Federal Bureau of Prisons, Correctional Officer. One Example of privatized situation that shouldn’t have been: I have seen prisons privatized and they are terrible. They do not know what they are doing when it comes to security. Inmates escape and so many problems arise due to it. They did that with the Miramar Brig here in San Diego, they used it to house inmates, it was a privatized situation. The inmates ended up burning up the Mirimar Brig after being there for only a few months. Yea, needless to say that didn’t work out well at all. We ended up getting most of the inmates returned to our facility, some went else where. They had moved them due to us being way over capacity. We were rated to hold around 750 inmates and we were running up wards of 1600 inmates in our building. We had 4 inmates in two man cells, we were racked, stacked and packed, but we still did better than the privatized people did. They didn’t burn down our joint.
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