You keep linking to that wikipedia article but I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;ve read it or understand it.<p>&gt;The store AND the consumers will be better off if a police force stopped the thefts.<p>&gt;This is the very definition of a market failure.<p>You continue to fallaciously claim that absent a public police force businesses would do nothing to stop theft. The claim is absurd and ignores measures that businesses already take today to stop thefts. Furthermore you fallaciously claim that a public police force would stop thefts. We have a public police force. Thefts still happen. You have provided no evidence that absent a public police force that there would at least be more thefts and that option would be Pareto inefficient.<p>Your argument is the very definition of a non-sequitur.