Privatizing Law Enforcement

Forward, December, 1995 by Ira Stoll

Ira Stoll Forward 12-01-1995 Privatizing Law Enforcement. Of all the proposals currently making their way around Washington to improve federal functions by privatizing them, the most brazen may be a plan to augment the counter-terrorism functions of the Department of Defense, the State Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency with the might of American civil trial lawyers. Backers of the idea say that bombing raids, criminal prosecutions and economic sanctions notwithstanding, what will really strike fear into the hearts of international terrorists is the prospect of facing a civil trial under the kind of American jury system that recently made McDonald's pay millions of dollars to a woman who spilled hot coffee in her lap. ...

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