Ep. 597 Can the Private Sector Protect Against Crime? This Case Study Will Blow Your Mind
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Your local police department is said to provide a service that we could never expect to arise in the private sector. But the Detroit Threat Management Center, a private and voluntary organization, has cut down on violent crime and made a point of defusing dangerous situations without violence. You'll love this one.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 597. |
| 0:03.5 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.0 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey, everybody, don't miss out on the event of the year. |
| 0:18.0 | Bob Murphy and I are hosting a cruise. |
| 0:20.7 | That's right, it's the Contra Cruise, October 9th to 16th, 2016 aboard Royal Caribbean. Check it out at contracruise.com. |
| 0:30.6 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of the show. I really talked up this episode the other day, but as you're going to hear for yourselves, I was not |
| 0:38.4 | exaggerating. I mean, you're going to have to pause and catch your breath in the middle of this |
| 0:42.5 | episode. I'm telling you, because my guest today is Dale Brown. Commander Dale Brown is the |
| 0:48.0 | founder of the Detroit Threat Management Center. And all I'll say right now is that he founded that at a time when the |
| 0:57.4 | Detroit police either could not or would not deal with the problem of violent crime. And so |
| 1:04.4 | Dale Brown created a private, voluntary alternative that sought to do three things. First, try to stop all this violent crime. |
| 1:13.2 | Second, try to prevent crime from occurring in the first place. And third, try to avoid violence. |
| 1:20.7 | Try to diffuse situations without violence. It is an incredible story, and I know you're going to enjoy it. |
| 1:27.7 | Dale Brown, welcome to the show. |
| 1:29.2 | Thank you, sir. |
| 1:29.9 | It's great to be here. |
| 1:31.2 | I am very interested in the Detroit Threat Management System. |
| 1:34.9 | Give me the basic two-minute pitch. |
| 1:37.7 | Give me the overview of what you do and what's valuable about it. |
| 1:42.5 | Well, what we do at Detroit Front Management Center, first and foremost, is we are a school. |
| 1:47.5 | We're an educational resource. |
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