They're now facing charges and lawsuits related to "impersonating police", and the ADA who was involved is likewise facing some severe penalties.
Exactly. Now, where is the movement to stop the property seizures? Is anyone even collecting signatures?
Much like the For Profit Prison model
Let's not get distracted, huh?
And how does a For Profit Police/Prison company make more money? By finding more criminals, and increasing criminality.
You are perfectly right that it is in the interests of such companies to find more criminals. However, the "increasing criminality" allegation needs citations... Got any? The article sure does not... It enumerates some questionable practices, but nowhere is there are an allegation of an innocent person getting locked-up "for profit".
Against corporations, how else do you deal with a bad actor?
By switching to a competitor, that's how... You don't like Coke, you switch to Pepsi, that's all.
A bunch of individuals acting in concert? Congratulations: that's what Government is.
It can also be a charity, a for-profit corporation, a collective farm, a non-profit corporation, etc. And, yes, any of those are "bunch of individuals acting in concert" — and, yes, they can do almost all, that the government is doing... And whereas government is necessarily a monopoly, all of those things compete with each other for our monies and attentions. Switching from Consumer Digest to Consumer Reports is just as easily as switching from Coke to Pepsi.