You're under the assumption that a privatized police force would, at the very basic level, provide exactly what they do right now. No worse, no better. I mean, you have no way of proving this, but you're very belligerently arguing that this would be the case.
but if you paid for extra service, you will get a better response, most likely because there will be an extra unit assigned to pay attention to you (and some number of other premium members in your area) more closely
This is difference from premium members getting faster response times how exactly? It looks like you just described exactly that.
Anyway, the deeper problem, of course, is that poor people who can't afford this service are left to the mercy of survival of the fittest. That was the joke. Living in a 1st world country means that we live in an egalitarian society of equal rights under the law, at least on paper. No public police force = no rule of law.
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Date: 24/2/11 23:59 (UTC)but if you paid for extra service, you will get a better response, most likely because there will be an extra unit assigned to pay attention to you (and some number of other premium members in your area) more closely
This is difference from premium members getting faster response times how exactly? It looks like you just described exactly that.
Anyway, the deeper problem, of course, is that poor people who can't afford this service are left to the mercy of survival of the fittest. That was the joke. Living in a 1st world country means that we live in an egalitarian society of equal rights under the law, at least on paper. No public police force = no rule of law.