Ahh so like the legal system where you get as much justice as you can afford you would get as much police protection as you could afford?
yes, I imagine charity, which there would be more of if less taxes, would also help the really bad areas. I also envision local (community based) groups taking the responsbility of helping to secure their community instead of relying on cops or letting crime run rampant until it personally effects tehm
Vigalantism? I guppose we could just turn the teabaggers loose with guns and badges.
Darned cops mess up enough with all the rules and training.
Check you history about when coprorations hired their own police forces....
It does not work out very well.
I know what it would be like with communitys taking care of their own security along with real oversight on them (not like today where a cop does an "internal audit" of his buddy and nothing comes from it). its not vigilantism, its actual "justice" without the police abuse or as close as you can get to that