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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Why private police forces won't work
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Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 23:34:13 EST
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> >  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