Erik Prince

You had the railroads.

You had banks.

They were just getting robbed by large gangs.

And it was not –

The government lacked the resources and the focus, really, to run those gangs down and to extinguish them.

And you can see that in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, that old Robert Redford movie.

They would rob and pillage, go everywhere.

And the sheriff would always stop at the county line.

And the marshal would stop at this line.

The army would stop at this border.

But there was other guys that just chased them and chased them and chased them.

They kept looking back.

Who are those guys?

It was the Pinkertons.

So at that point, the Pinkerton detective agency had like six times the amount of armed agents than the army did.

So again, nature hates a vacuum.

Something's going to fill it.

For all the talk of defund the police and we don't need police, then you're going to have cities like South Africa where you have housing neighborhoods that are surrounded by high voltage electrified fences with access gates that look like you're entering an embassy with highly gunned up armed private response because there's no police that will come.

People will self-organize.

This is solved.