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One idea I think is really good is community supported policing.

Most businesses cannot afford Lance Armstrong’s private police. But you could organize a small group on a block that could together could afford these amenities. 

Start a private security firm with an SLA mandated response time for in person responders, and augment that with digital surveillance like Flock https://www.flocksafety.com/

Organize the community to say enough and sell to the group as a whole

More people are thinking about how to replace the void left by understaffed police https://x.com/2112power/status/1847108205845074106

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"In Defense of Looting" spends a portion of the book talking about how modern policing came to be - including tracing its roots back to community-managed security. Any kind of policing carries the risk of abuse, but one built from and by the community being policed has an appeal of more direct management to mitigate that risk.

That assumes the community has the capital to actually fund such a thing, though.

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In my OP I posit it is cheaper to distribute costs if you are able to get all the people on a block to chip in to share

I don't disagree (though I don't know enough to dispute it, either). My point was: in communities where everyone's operating on near-zero, zero, or sub-zero margins, is there anything even available to pool? 

Though relying on policing funded by people outside of your community hasn't historically gone well, so...?

I mean, if the state wants to step up and do its job that would be great but they aren’t leaving the door open for this conversation