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crafty  ·  3496 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Policing with love

Here is a video of Walmart loss prevention employees trying to apprehend a person. I'm not sure exactly what the legal issues are surrounding this encounter, as it occurred in Canada. It is rather bloody and violent, so be warned. In a way, would you say that loss prevention employees are sort of like a private police? They don't really have the all-encompassing mandate that I would apply to "police" but they are expected to protect and serve the property of their employers.

The people being apprehended, detained, beaten or whatever, are not paying for those security services, they are customers of an establishment. In a free market, the most force they could bring against the person employing those security services is a boycott. How effective are boycotts, really, though? Sometimes they can be very effective, other times, very ineffective. It's a situation where one dollar is one vote. How does the free market address the situation where the person paying for the police-force is not the same as the person receiving the police-force?