Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!qantel!intelca!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amdcad!decwrl!spar!baba From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Why private police forces won't work Message-ID: <7@spar.UUCP> Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 23:34:13 EST Article-I.D.: spar.7 Posted: Sat Dec 15 23:34:13 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 00:22:42 EST References: <3160@alice.UUCP> <29200175@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 10 > > 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