Cities face a paradox:
• Citizens demand safety.
• Institutions are often slow.
• Vigilantism emerges in the gap.
JM-Comm’s position is that neither unchecked vigilantism nor absolute state monopoly on force serves the public.
The revised Vigilante Registration Act (VRA) should therefore:
- Allow civic monitors to operate transparently rather than underground.
- Clearly prohibit violence, coercion, or private punishment.
- Channel independent oversight into formal accountability structures.
- Create legal protections for lawful observers while preventing abuse.
- Make JM-Corp-style risk analytics available to cities as neutral infrastructure.
This is not about empowering vigilantes — it is about converting disorder into lawful accountability.
JM-Corp directs JM-Comm to treat the VRA as a model of how private expertise can support public order without replacing it.
