Cops in Japan Run Out of Things to Do as Crime Rate Falls, So They Create New Crimes
"Japan is almost crime-free not thanks to the police, says Yoshihiro Yasuda, a campaigning lawyer, but because people police themselves."
A friend sent me this story (below) just this morning via Facebook. It matches up with my personal experience here, and says a lot about why police and related security should be COMPLETELY PRIVATIZED.
It also says a lot about culture. Once a majority come to accept and understand voluntaryist property ethic (based on the objective reality of self-ownership) and this becomes the cultural norm, the battle is basically won. In Japan people police themselves, because that kind of self-respect is part and parcel of the culture.
おまわりさん、自分のことを気にして下さい。私たちは、大丈夫から。君を必要になったら、呼びます。
Translation:
Officer, please take care of yourself. We'll be fine. I'll call you when I need you.
Here's the story:
~KafkA
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as Facebook and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)
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Excellent post, and welcome to the AnFam!
I just read an article not to long ago about the inscription on the denarius, and it seems to suggest Ceasar was descended from/was "God." Viewed from this vantage "Whose image is this, and whose inscription?" can be viewed as an extremely clever way to ask "Is Caesar God to you? Do you believe the inscription? If so, pay him--your "God." If not, pay God."
Just my thoughts, and always an interesting Jesus reply to think about.
I can resonate with your thoughts. Following :)
Because it works so well in e.g. the US? rofl
Also it is Bullshit to compare the Japanese system of police boxes to other countries who don't have it.
Still, you probably don't need a quarter million police for Japan. Or make them more effective on the crimes that really happen.
It does work well in the US, where it is marginally allowed to exist. Check out Dale Brown's Threat Management Center in Detroit. Check out the thousands and thousands of businesses that employ private security firms. Who in their right mind thinks that a business model where there is virtually no accountability due to state-proffered legal immunity is a good idea?
Yeah, especially the university cops work well in killing innocent or small-crime people, especially blacks.
The "legal immunity" is not based on the state but by the "corps spirit" of police and "upper" law bodies. But that is something you have at least a chance to repair.
Contrary to that a for-profit police force quasi by definition is interested even more in silencing illegal behavior of cops and at the same time, all other factors the same, can only be worse then a state run because they have less money to pay for their officers or equipment.
Compare FedEx equipment, mailboxes, etc., to that of the USPS.
The claims you make are baseless. Show me the evidence.
The state is what pays the salary of police (via money stolen from individuals in the form of politically santized robbery, i.e. "taxation") and the state is the entity that prosecutes them when they are caught in criminal activity. If you fail to see a conflict of interest here, I feel sorry for you.
Finally, have you checked out the references I made, and, how many people do private security groups kill and maim vs. run-of-the-mill government cops? I'll wait for your stats.
And FINALLY, policing is already done for profit by the state! Look up civil asset forfeiture and for-profit prisons. Or just get a speeding ticket. All these will make it crystal clear to you.
Now, question: Which NumberOfPolice will be lower?
Yes, the caf is bullshit that is misused - but by both state and private forces. In fact I have read that one of the University private forces have a set budget for it and the University is angry if that is not matched.
And For-profit-prisons - thanks, that's a good point for me because after all they are a private corporation adventure.
All protected by...drumroll please...
THE STATE
The free market destroys such lunatic organizations.
No, you get it wrong. The state is protected by them.
Really, that no-state religion that ignores basics of human life is just strange.
A free market first of all destroys lives and then creates something that is a state.inc
That's a bold claim. I'll wait for your argument in support of it.
Big difference between the USPS and FedEx. Yes, FedEs is better, but the USPS is the only federal agency that has NEVER been in the red. So, there is that. But Police and security is whole different kettle of fish! Security forces can be easily used as terrorists, and that is something we should strive to avoid.
However private security does not legally allow we, the people to examine, investigate or possibly even prosecute criminal behavior of said private security. Private security is a highly flawed idea.
You may not want Blackwater watching over your children.
Blackwater is protected by the state. The free market says any pizza chain selling poison pizza goes out of business. No questions.
Blackwater(I think they have since changed their name) is a private mercenary organization employed your Federal gubmint in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places around the world.
The DoD no longer has USA soldiers do soldiering when it is easier to send in mercenaries to terrorize and break the rules set by Geneva war convention following WW1. To much of the rest of the world, the USA Dod is a terrorist organization. That is what has become of our nation.
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I would suggest self policing. Community police(perhaps volunteers? like a volunteer Fire Dept)) who should obey private natural rights first and foremost. It must be done by the community rather than a private force.
Legitimate communities are private, by definition.