This is what’s happening in Australia
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Redondo Beach hired rent-a-cops to issue mask violation citations. $1000 a pop. They'd give them a commission % if they could grey away with it.
Ugh. I forgot about that. Just despicable. I haven't looked much into private corp running our prisons, but that's also such a crime.
The only good thing is that private prisons counter the state prison workers union, who shamelessly extort the taxpayers at every opportunity. Private prisons sound abhorrent until you weigh it against the public ones. The prison employees union even funded a recent ballot initiative to ratchet up prison sentences without even bothering to make a logical case.
Funny thing about the private security is that, because they're not police, they had zero authority to stop you or ask for ID. All you needed to do was ignore them or refuse to cooperate and keep walking, but all the nice people who politely answered their questions got citations, which the local courts held up.