The nightmare scenario when public services are privatized

Re: Israeli airport security.

To replicate this is virtually impossible. As noted earlier in the thread the area is much smaller with only one international airport for the whole country.

The security gig is also seen as a bit of a valling where the cultural mindset contributes to the seriousness of the task at hand. Israeli airport security agents are generally on an education path to something else and do this job for a few years before moving on. They get a stream of more comitted employees rather than the dregs of people who just need a job.

Aiport security is Kabuki theatre designed to reassure the travelling public, if someone really wants to harm a flight, they can.

 

Public services are at least in theory accountable to the voters.

Private services are accountable to the corporations, who love us.

 

The Times continues its NJ halfway house series by showing how one is used to handle an overflow of inmates.

They showed a "house" in which a man who was arrested for driving an unregistered car was placed in there with violent gangbangers. The gangstas robbed him of $3 and killed him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/nyregion/at-a-new-jersey-halfway-house-a-volatile-mix-fuels-a-murder.html?src=recg

 

Then he should have registered his car.

/zag