{"id":34326,"date":"2021-09-21T20:40:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T01:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34326"},"modified":"2021-09-21T20:40:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T01:40:59","slug":"private-sector-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/09\/21\/private-sector-law-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Sector Law Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recently passed and controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/09\/04\/unintended-you-know-whats-ctd-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas abortion bill<\/a> has excited much comment, and now a <em><strong>Monmouth Poll<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/reports\/MonmouthPoll_US_092021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">result<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two unique provisions of the Texas law are broadly opposed by the public. Seven in ten Americans (70%) disapprove of allowing private citizens to use lawsuits to enforce this law rather than having government prosecutors handle these cases. Additionally, 8 in 10 Americans (81%) disapprove of giving $10,000 to private citizens who successfully file suits against those who perform or assist a woman with getting an abortion. The vast majority of Democrats and independents oppose both provisions. Republicans are split on having private citizens enforce the law (46% approve and 41% disapprove), but most GOP identifiers (67%) take a negative view of the $10,000 payment aspect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Naturally, the results are interpreted through the prism of abortion: Good or bad?<\/p>\n<p>But the two points above remind me of the libertarian inclination to privatize everything. The Texas abortion bill is a prime example of privatizing the investigation and quasi-enforcement of a non-law: the unofficial banning of enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>And, if I may peek through the prism of private law enforcement, which may be cracked in this case, it doesn&#8217;t appear that Americans are happy about it, with 70% disapproving of it. Of course, the whole situation is dubious: attempting to criminalize a Constitutionally protected activity without doing so renders the question of what poll respondents perceive to be objectionable something of a question mark.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s still worth remembering that Americans don&#8217;t seem to be jumping at the chance to privatize the enforcement of a public law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recently passed and controversial Texas abortion bill has excited much comment, and now a Monmouth Poll result: Two unique provisions of the Texas law are broadly opposed by the public. Seven in ten Americans (70%) disapprove of allowing private citizens to use lawsuits to enforce this law rather than \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/09\/21\/private-sector-law-enforcement\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34327,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34326\/revisions\/34327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}