Amid rising crime rates and calls from some to “defund the police” a new paper suggests an alternative solution to help manage the swelling costs of policing: outsource non-core police tasks to licensed security professionals. Supplementing the police force with security personnel could save millions of dollars while lowering crime rates by allowing police to focus only on those areas that require a high degree of police training, says the paper, “Let the Police Police, and Let Entrepreneurs Handle the Rest,” [pdf] by the Montreal Economic Institute. “A very significant portion of the work carried out by police officers does not involve the most specialized aspects of the extensive training they’ve received,” said Krystle Wittevrongel, public policy analyst and co‑author of the paper, released Sept. 8. “In fact, only 10 percent of the tasks officers carry out are highly demanding of all of these skills. An analysis conducted over thirty years in …
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