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Re:An entrepreneur persuaded New Orleans to let him create a... by ceejayoz on Friday July 31, 2015 @10:24AM (#9981923)
The San Francisco police have 2,000+ officers. The San Francisco Patrol Special Police you refer to have 40. I'd both be interested in the metric you're using to determine "less corrupt" and in how that metric would look if they had 2,000 officers like the SFPD.
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Re:An entrepreneur persuaded New Orleans to let him create a... by chiph on Friday July 31, 2015 @12:00PM (#9982509)
The article goes into it from a historical perspective, but one only has to search "SFPD Corruption" to find many examples. And officers who try to be ethical get punished by the others.

http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/sfpd-tries-to-fire-cop-...

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Re:An entrepreneur persuaded New Orleans to let him create a... by ceejayoz on Friday July 31, 2015 @12:24PM (#9982643)
As I noted, the SFPD is 50+ times the size, and I'm interested in an actual metric, not anecdotes. I'm pretty suspicious of the contention that a private police force would be somehow immune to corruption - it certainly hasn't been the case with groups like Blackwater.
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