Private Volunteers Step In Where Police Are AWOL

Tags: The Entrepreneur, The Police State, U.S. History

12/23/2014 Julian Adorney

Where police fail, as at Ferguson and in Detroit, private firms and volunteers have stepped in. And yet the state continues to claim that its employed enforcers are a thin blue line between order and chaos, writes Julian Adorney.

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