Amid rising crime rates and calls from some to “defund the police” a new paper suggests an alternative solution to help manage the swelling costs of policing: outsource non-core police tasks to licensed security professionals.
Supplementing the police force with security personnel could save millions of dollars while lowering crime rates by allowing police to focus only on those areas that require a high degree of police training, says the paper, “Let the Police Police, and Let Entrepreneurs Handle the Rest,” [pdf] by the Montreal Economic Institute.
