Ep. 22 Tate Fegley on Privatizing the Police

Economist Tate Fegley joined me to talk about the economics of privatizing the police and whether or not it would decrease police brutality. We talked about the structural incentives that make government police unaccountable and why privatizing may be more humane. Show Notes: • Mises Institute: https://mises.org/profile/tate-fegley •Why Abusive Cops So Often Keep Their Jobs by Tate Fegley: https://mises.org/wire/its-nearly-impossible-fire-police-officer-heres-why •Police Indemnification by Joanna Schwartz: https://www.nyulawreview.org/issues/volume-89-number-3/police-indemnification/ •Police Choice by Corey DeAngelis: http://libertarianpapers.org/deangelis-police-choice/ •The Structure of Liberty by Randy Barnett: https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Liberty-Justice-Rule-Law/dp/0198297297 •The Wandering Officer by Ben Grunwald and John Rappaport: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/4004/ •Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth by Ludwig von Mises: https://cdn.mises.org/Economic%20Calculation%20in%20the%20Socialist%20Commonwealth_Vol_2_3.pdf •Selling Security: The Private Policing of Public Space by Alison Wakefield: https://www.amazon.com/Selling-Security-Private-Policing-Public-ebook/dp/B00AZ4S7P6