Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty MPD cops for security - Minnesota Reformer
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Small business owners — particularly immigrant owned — say they've been pressured by police to hire off-duty officers to provide security.

Small business owners — particularly immigrant owned — say they’ve been pressured by police to hire off-duty officers to provide security.

  • @BertramDitoreEnglish
    13•1 year ago

    This is appalling. Swap out the word police in the article and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a story about an organized crime protection racket.

    • @SheeEttinEnglish
      31•1 year ago

      It is a story about an organized crime protection racket.

    • @[email protected]
      12•1 year ago

      There are around 18 known gangs in the LA Sheriff’s Department. Not moles for street gangs, gangs made up entirely of active duty police officers. This has been going on since the 70s. Cops are exactly gangs, sometimes in more ways than one.

    • FartsWithAnAccentEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      Ask just about any cop and they will tell you with a straight face that the police are “the biggest gang in town” (at least in the US).

  • Sheev
    2•1 year ago

    Fear and loyalty are the foundations of our rule.