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Subject: Re: Why private police forces won't work
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Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 11:19:00 EST
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/***** 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
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But that doesn't stop them from fighting each other, or preparing to
fight each other. Witness the arms race.