• Urist
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    11 months ago

    Private security companies earn a monthly fee for patrolling neighborhoods and providing armed response to their clients’ alarm systems. They also offer tracking and car recovery services, which often results in them getting involved in high-speed chases of car thieves and hijackers.

    Emphasis mine. How does getting payed from a private individual give you access to armed responses to anything? If that is legal no wonder why the police is failing at maintaining the law.

  • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
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    11 months ago

    Sure, let’s replace the bastards with worse bastards that are only there for profit and would make less profit if crime were to go down! That’ll fix it! 🤦

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      11 months ago

      The thing is, individual citizens can’t reform the police, or ambulance services, fire brigade, or power utilities, all of which have been gutted by the ANC. All they can do is to pay, out of pocket, for private sector replacements. No one is arguing that this is better than having working public sector versions in the first place, but that’s not achievable until the national government gets totally overhauled (if it ever happens).

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    11 months ago

    Isreal trained a lot if SA private security forces. This feels like propaganda against SA by isreal considering the timing and SA’s efforts to stop the genocide of Palestinians.

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      11 months ago

      This is what happens as the state gets hollowed out by decades of ANC corruption and misrule.