City of Oakland hires private security

Raw Story reports on the city of Oakland:

The cost of keeping a police officer up and running on the streets of Oakland is about $250,000 a year.

The cost of employing four armed guards to provide security in commercial districts in East Oakland is about $180,000 a year.

You do the math.

Can you imagine how much cheaper it would be if the private sector(without unions) ran Oakland's public school system? We can dream.