Calls to "defund the police" are seductive but have the effect of boosting a burgeoning nationwide effort to privatize policing. Instead of traditional cops on city salaries you'll get Blackwater goons working directly for the ruling class. policechiefmagazine.org/private-police… 
Private security firms like Academi (formerly Blackwater) are diversifying across commercial sectors including manufacturing and real estate. Under police privatization, the goons may not simply work for your local BID; they may *be* the BID. books.google.com/books?id=H-g3D…
Six months ago the usual suspects were (correctly) decrying the growing privatization of prisons, pointing out that for-profit lockups are incentivized to mistreat inmates and lengthen their sentences.
Blackwater and its ilk will be delighted to manage the criminal justice system end-to-end, from uniformed thugs patrolling the streets without public accountability, to private prisons profiting from slave labor.
"Defund the police" reflects the triumph of the neoliberal/libertarian mindset. Here the Mises Instutute calling for privatization as the solution to police brutality. mises.org/wire/privatize…
Under this scheme we are no longer to be protected from police brutality as of right, but supposedly shielded purely by consumer choice.
It’s already happening. chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/…
"Just as private prisons, schools, and health services have been touted as a real benefit to cash-strapped local and state governments, so too have private police forces." Detroit was the laboratory. huffpost.com/entry/rescuing…
