Texas Town Fires Entire Police Department, Crime Drops By 61%
Replaced all cops with private security
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
March 3, 2015
A Texas town has proven that there is a solution to out of control cops after it replaced the entire police department with private security officers and saw a remarkable drop in crime by 61%.
Sharpstown, located southwest of Houston, decided in 2012 that regular public policing was proving wholly ineffective, and opted not to renew a contract with the constable’s office.
Instead the town’s civic leaders hired private security agents with the company SEAL Security Solutions, and devised a more effective policing strategy.
“Since we’ve been in there, an independent crime study that they’ve had done [indicates] we’ve reduced the crime by 61%” in just 20 months, James Alexander, Director of Operations for SEAL told reporters with guns.com.
That is an estimated slashing of criminal activity of almost two thirds in just over a year and a half.
Alexander believes that the reason for such a dramatic drop has come with more sensible policing in areas that need it the most.
“We do directed patrols, meaning we don’t just put an officer out there and say ‘here, go patrol.’ We look at recent crime stats, and we work off of those crime stats.” he states.
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