OCP. Good business is where you find it.

+1 to this post, and the o.p. If we lack community control of the police already, imagine what it would be like when corporations steal control outright. Of course, they'll also steal the facilities and infrastructure that the tax-payers own and pay for.

Ever hear about Blackwater and New Orleans during Katrina?

Blackwater-Xe-Academi or whatever they are called now are definitely corporate-controlled martial law. The public cops that shot the people attempting to get over that bridge didn't escape my attention, either.

I know who's side our 'publicly-controlled' municipal police are on, in any possible dispute between me and a big-money person or entity, 99% of the time. To have Dyncorp or Halliburton actually acquire my police force through privatization doesn't just remove the last 1%, for the 1% power-brokers, it lets my cops give the bad-guys an extra 10%. Like they did to Peter Weller's character in the movie.

The public can fight the move to privatize by forcefully opposing transfer of taxpayers' infrastructure to the private corporation. That would include no tax-payer subsidization of the police training academies. I know this would result in a large number of cops on the street who look like the graduating class of the John Candy & Gene Levy movie, 'Armed and Dangerous', but at least there's more chance they'll trip over their guns while trying to give that extra 10%.