Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Why private police forces won't work Message-ID: <22400070@ea.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 11:19:00 EST Article-I.D.: ea.22400070 Posted: Thu Dec 20 11:19:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Dec-84 03:52:03 EST References: <3160@alice.UUCP> Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:alice:-316000:ea:22400070:000:570 Nf-From: ea!mwm Dec 20 10:19:00 1984 /***** ea:net.politics / spar!baba / 10:13 am Dec 18, 1984 */ > > Result: gang warfare. > > Not likely. Protection agencies are in business to make money. Fighting > each other is not a good way to make money. Precisely. And extortion *is* profitable. The "protection" agencies that exist today certainly find it more profitable to divide up territories and shake down their customers than to fight one another. Baba /* ---------- */ But that doesn't stop them from fighting each other, or preparing to fight each other. Witness the arms race.