I don’t know why all the negativity about a private security or firefighting squad.

Maybe the answer is a for-profit fire department in which folks pay monthly dues (kinda like insurance)…Of course there should be an option to “opt-out” of paying a portion of taxes to fund the public version…

As far as “you get what you pay for” in terms of police. I wonder with the true costs of having beat police versus funding the pensions. (don’t know)…I don’t know but, seems to me that I wouldn’t mind hiring blackwater to be my private security guard if it was affordable….Shoot first ask questions later…How’s that any different from what SDPD does currently? 🙂