ABSTRACT
The market and private enterprise do exist, and so most people can readily envision a free market in most goods and services. Probably the most difficult single area to grasp, however, is the abolition of government operations in the service of protection: police, and the courts, the area encompassing defense of person and property against attack or invasion. A free market in police would reward efficient and courteous police protection to customers and penalize any falling off from the standard. Every consumer, every buyer of police protection, would wish all for protection that is efficient and quiet, with no conflicts or disturbances. The consumers who just want to see a policeman once in a while would pay less than those who want continuous patrolling, and far less than those who demand twenty-four-hour bodyguard service. As government police have become increasingly inefficient, consumers have been turning more and more to private forms of protection.
