Anarcho-Capitalist NEWS: Private Protection Co. Puts Govt. PoLice to Shame

For those who care about the problem of police violence and abuse, this may be the most important story of the decade. Maybe longer. Last week, Tom Woods interviewed Dale Brown, founder of the Detroit Threat Management Center. In case you don’t have time to listen to the entire 39-minute interview, here are some highlights.

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Essentially, the DTMC has done what libertarians like Murray Rothbard and David Friedman have long been saying could be done: They have turned the provision of public safety into a profitable business model, and they have done it in some of the worst neighborhoods in the country. The results have been incredible: According to Brown, crime has dropped dramatically in the areas where they work, and all without the loss of life to their staff or anyone else.

Brown moved to Detroit from Michigan in the early 1990s. He was surprised to find that police in detroit behaved more as predators than protectors, that they were only interested in incarcerating as many people as possible, not in preventing crime.

“Law enforcement at that time was very fixated on one thing,” he says, “imprisoning every single African American that they could.”

Brown, who had been training volunteers, went into one of Detroit’s worst neighborhoods. Dubbed “Crack Alley”, it consisted of about ten apartment buildings and, according to Brown, about 100 aggressors, or 25% of the population. “There were hundreds of people who needed help,” he says. “I couldn’t get the police to help them.”

So Brown went to the building owners and made them an offer: In exchange for one free apartment in a building, he would train and install one person to protect that building.

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