“Crazy, right? I kind of felt like Bruce Wayne.” Like many of his neighbors, Sidney Torres was wildly dissatisfied with the policing that was being done in the French Quarter. So Torres decided to do something about it. He created his own high tech police force. The specifics of this story are unique (and pretty amazing), but the slow merging of public and private security forces is a trend worth noting. From NYT Mag: Who runs the streets of New Orleans?