LPI and their law status

[nOmnomnOm]

Money talks and if there is a privatization of a system that holds power then you can bet there will be some corruptness to use that power to gain money and income.

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[Highland Laddie]

Power corrupts, sure enough, and there's no doubt that there's corruption in the LPI, but that's certainly not a reason against their existence, or any real argument against PMCs, as long as there are means to hold them accountable and keep them in check.

Obviously, LPI's existence means that the benefit of having them outweighs the cost, even taking corruption into consideration.

[The_Normal_Anomaly]

teh OP

I'm creating that topic, because I'm interested into real status of LPI, which, by background, don't have much authority over Liberty Navy.

Liberty Police, Inc. (LPI) is a private company that handles the policing of Liberty space to interdict the importation of contraband and to prevent attacks on civilian and commercial traffic.

As far as I am concerned, private companies of such status are not even police, they are in fact underdogs for the real police. And LPI isn't even national, what makes Liberty Navy a factual police force... As far as I understand, because in Poland we have "private police force", which is City Guard and they do not have much authority as real police.
So LPI, logically, is more like a City Guard rather than actual police force, as their status is even lower than that of Bretonian or Rheinland police. Police, by default, must be part of the national system, so private police is not - technically - police at all.
What do you think about it?

Hey, look at that, a question I can field in a meaningful way.

The LPI is clearly just a sort of joke/horror story about the American prison and legal system, the same as virtually every vanilla Freelancer faction is some kind of joke or racist joke. The Blood Dragons totally aren't just the 47 ronin, made into a space faction. And lets not forget the Dublin essentially houses the IRA, who have their Lucky Charms, I mean leprechaun gold.

So the LPI being privatized is just part of a commentary on the way the prison system is going in 'Murica. The exploding prison population, the privatization trend in all areas of the prison system, and some blatantly corrupt decisions in prison construction and maintenance are all facts of life, so the LPI are really more of just a modification on reality than an insane idea for a game (spooky voice) in space. Even the part about the LPI and their prisons being part of the economic backbone of the House. Also the poor working conditions for at least part of the LPI, a guy aboard the San Diego station commenting about twenty men dying in thirty days, off of a station of just 150 people. One officer aboard Fort Bush states a twelve Rogue capture per day quota to fill. In the vanilla game, Junkers run scrap from Beaumont Base to LPI Sugarland, which is in addition to a prison also a constantly running scrap smelter. The other prison produces the majority of consumer goods in the house. Houston too is primarily a resource production site.

The LPI is part of a government move to legally, and in a publicly acceptable way, gain a source of slave labor. The LPI and how they fit into Liberty is the nightmare story of what the American prison system might become.