the idea of private police isn't bad either
In Russia, the "private police" will make you pay so that they won't bother you, they will mug you, they will kill you, and they will get away with it.
In selfstanding Chechnya, this problem was one of the starts of the Other Chechen War - the invasion of Dagestan by an Islaamish brigade, but before that, many raids going past the Terek, kidnappings, civil war.
Some might be ideologically motivated to do some things by "moral" standards as well, like killing those who do drugs, mugging Turk and Mongol immigrants, and mugging tourists to bring the foreign money to the great homeland. And some might be legitimately good, trying to stop crimes that the watch is either to scared, legally not in bounds to, or paid off to not stop.
Edited 9/10/2016 01:20:54