Dallas Law Enforcement Insanity
Dallas Observer: Rent a Cop...Or else
The message from Dallas City Hall is that it can't really fight crime. The message is that you need to do it yourself. Or else. And, man, does that message ever come across.
I won't quote any more because you really have to read it for yourself.
From my "extremist" political perspective, this is not surprising at all, a logical consequence of imposing a government in order to secure social order and a logical consequence of using the state to fix the problems the state itself creates by it's existence. Normal human motives are utterly corrupted and are inadvertently turned against us, leading to absurdities like a city government suing you because you didn't try hard enough to stop crime on your property and then subtly suggesting you hire off-duty cops to reduce your crime liability.
So give it a read and reconsider the point of a monopolized, centralized police force under the control of politicians, a class of human no sane moral would trust to baby sit their children, let alone a city of millions.
Link via Billy Beck.