You are talking about "social" undertakings (paid for by taxes on, in theory, by everybody) which, for the most part, I support.
In the last decade or so there's been at least a dozen stories about this or that community contracting with PRIVATIZED outfits to do what they'd like to refer to as
"policing". Law enforcement contracted to a privately owned company is a thing that raises a lot of red flags for me.
Call me crazy if you like but from where I sit, things like "sworn public servant" are one of the few absolutist positions I take on issues.
Cops MUST BE sworn public servants employed by city, county, state or federal governments.
Military, same damn thing, I am dead set against private military anything at all, under any circumstances. If it's a matter of killing people and breaking things (the military's main JOB) then it is either done at taxpayer expense and wholly under the purview OF said taxpayers and their elected reps or it doesn't get done.
Find a good enough reason to engage the democratic process on those decisions.
In a free society, mercs and paramilitaries should be flat out illegal as Hell and activity in such must be a legally actionable crime.
And free societies should never allow privatized law enforcement because the temptation for unaccountable abuse and corruption is bad enough anyway, and is always ALL the MORE SO under privatization, as we've already seen in the private corrections industry, which is by the way the third in my DON'T list...
NO privatized corrections under any circumstances.
