Ya, highly doubtful. Whether you realize it or not, we (meaning this BBS and its denizens) are the oddballs. Most of the country is hawkish. Cheney's companies are very successful. God, guns and guts give many people priapism.
Really? You'd enter into a deal with a company you knew to be shady? Would you also buy insurance from a company you knew might not pay out when you needed it? To each his own, I suppose.
If I
had to choose a company, I'd want one thats juiced and never loses a case.
Yet, kidnapping is suddenly okay when the government does it?
Look, if a DRO is known to do terrible things, and treat people unfairly, who the HELL is going to deal with them? Cheney's companies are successful because GOVERNMENT deals with them, handing them sweet deals. In an actual free market, where they have to deal with real people in the real world, this isn't going to be the case. "Yeah, I know they're crooked and probably won't hold up their end of the deal. But, you have to weight that against the low price they're offering." If you actually LIKE that sort of deal, then go for it!
No, kidnapping is not okay when the cops do it. How am I saying its okay? But the fact remains, they are held to a public standard. Its called transparency. Does that mean all arrests are executed properly? No. But you rarely end up in Guantanamo-style conditions when cops take you. And you can't guarantee that wouldn't happen with rogue agencies. It doesn't matter if "most" people would transact with them - bounty hunters are an excellent example. They often take cops who can't get cop jobs, and I think we both know a cop who can't get a cop-job is probably pretty fucking dangerous.
I think the people who believe this crap will work properly are operating in a total fantasy world. They are not acknowledging the less civilized aspects that are bound to flourish.
Private security is totally hardcore and operates at whatever level their clients pay for. Force is a atmosphere of escalation and one-upmanship. It never becomes "less forceful". Ignoring that fact is to ignore the nature of man. And to that end, I would hire the most ruthless bunch of motherfuckers in the biz - if I hired any at all. A DRO would have an enforcement branch and a legal branch. Its pretty unlikely it would be just a legal service. If you just wanted legal dispute representation, you'd hire it as needed, just like you do now - they're called lawyers.