When
government police fail to provide adequate protection, people turn to private
security. Yet, when private security becomes inconvenient for the monopoly
security force (i.e., the state), purchasers of private security are punished.
Recently,
public police departments in the Des Moines, Iowa area have been charging
businesses and private homeowners for responding to
false alarms — that is, alarms generated by business or home
security systems that were not the result of apparent criminal activity. For
example, an alarm may be activated when debris blows by a motion sensor, and
the local police department is then notified and it responds.
According
to The Des Moines Register, this has been occurring a lot recently. Des
Moines police responded to 3,806 alarms last year, more than 90 percent of
which were false; West Des Moines police responded similarly with a 95 percent
false alarm rate; and Urbandale (part of the greater Des Moines metropolitan
area) police encountered a 91 percent false alarm rate.....To Read More.....
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