Without government cops, and government courts, and government prisons, who will stop unscrupulous criminals from robbing honest people blind?

Without government cops, and government courts, and government prisons, who will stop unscrupulous criminals from robbing honest people blind? (posted 13 May 2011, 11am)

Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 13 years ago, in 2011, on the World Wide Web.

Q. Without government cops, and government courts, and government prisons, who will stop unscrupulous criminals from robbing honest people blind?