Seems like a question of incentives (Walmart has insufficient incentive to deal with this without the police) that could be solved by looking at how insurance handles things: If I&#x27;m in an accident, regardless of whether or not it&#x27;s my fault, my rates go up.<p>It&#x27;s like... So corporations are people. But they&#x27;re a drastically different kind of person than you or I. They&#x27;re divisible, they come in hugely different sizes, they have no incarnation, etc etc.<p>Dealing with people as mere statistics is dehumanizing. But corporations? Aren&#x27;t corporations basically just a complex bundle of statistics to begin with?<p>So, a human who calls the police a lot gets a talking to, maybe goes in front of a judge, maybe something else happens. They don&#x27;t have to pay more taxes to repay society; for the sake of this argument, because they&#x27;re a human. They&#x27;re not divisible; they&#x27;re not a statistic.<p>But, a corporation who calls the police a lot... Well, why not treat them statistically? It&#x27;s not like they can get a talking to (it&#x27;s an abstract entity with no emotions or capacity for reason), go in front of a judge (it&#x27;s an abstract entity with no physical incarnation), it&#x27;s not like the &quot;something else&quot; can be the usual for humans: jail (it&#x27;s an abstract entity around which you cannot put a wall).<p>But a corporate IS a set of assets; so work with it on that level. Charge it based on the requirements it makes to society. Pick a cut-off range (like a tax bracket) where it transitions from &quot;not responsible for local crime&quot; to &quot;clearly responsible for local crime&quot;.<p>The taco stand down the street is clearly not responsible for local crime. It&#x27;s a truck.<p>The Walmart super center is clearly responsible for local crime. It, in an of itself, <i>is</i> a locality.<p>Or... Well, I don&#x27;t know, so I&#x27;ve got to ask: How do large buildings &quot;pay&quot; for other emergency services? Fire, hospital, etc? (I know for fire at least, there&#x27;s also passing inspection)