Discuss the following statement:

in the move towards giving legitimacy to the private security system in the world of homeland defense, the public system has slowly, but surely, moved towards a partnership mentality, finally concluding that their apparati are incapable of completing the job alone.

Discuss the following statement: Law enforcement agencies often do not possess complete knowledge or only the largest agencies possess it. More generally, the large and growing security industry “is armed with considerable and often sophisticated resources to deter crime and prevent other losses”.

Is this a fair and rational assessment of how necessary private security participation is in homeland defense? Provide illustrations as to why or why not.