It is 7-11-20-28 again.

So if I'm a criminal and I jump bail and I have to choose between having the comp

spring mean for a child or a bounty hunter, I definitely want to put that job in the hands of the police.

Bounty hunters are much more likely to get their man.

I like to say that the bounty hunters are the true long arm of the law.

I know what you're thinking.

Bounty hunters, those motorcycle vigilantes,

their glam rock hair and their big biceps and tattoos,

those are the guys who have a higher capture rate than the police.

Not exactly, says Alex Taverak.

He's an economist at George Mason University,

and co-author of a paper that looks at the commercial bail bond industry.

So after we'd published this article,

some of the bounty hunters actually gotten touched with me.

And I said, hey, maybe we should, maybe I should

be a little bit of a rogish kind of character, and I asked if I could go out with them

actually on the streets and actually learn outside of my office,

what bounty hunting was all about.

Taverak went off with the bounty hunter named Dennis in Baltimore.

You learn that bounty hunting is all about business.

No high speed chases, no gun battles.

As Dennis made clear, you don't want to rough up the fugitives or their families

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