> This is exactly how gangs and mob enforcement happens. Organization of people whom are more than willing to create their own physical enforcement outside of the restrictions of the law go out and "protect" for money. And then organize to become both the perpetrator and the defender.

When the law decides it is not interested in protecting the citizens you bet this is going to happen.

My block has been invaded by the drug dealers as of last summer. Not 1. Not 2. But between a dozen and two dozen at a time. They are selling drugs openly on a street so brazen that the people who live here have to walk through the drug deals being done on a sidewalk to get to their apartments. Apartments with rents ranging from $1900 to $6000 a month. Cops don't do anything because the city management frowns upon it. We had five shootings over the past 12 months. If there was a way for us to pay for our own thugs to ensure the drug dealers moved to a different block $200-$500/mo per apartment I'm absolutely sure everyone who lives around here would sign up for it.