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Seems WAI from a capitalist perspective. Society has a problem, society doesn’t fix problem. Corporation come up with solution. Consumers use solution
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I'd like to see how well you handle 100 people ganging up on you and your family if true Mad Max style anarchy starts.
Why not just train staff and carry guns?
Already we've got two top-level comments who think this article is about crime. It isn't. It's about corrupt police shaking down small business owners under threat of losing their business license. ETA: Please give the pedantry a rest. Of course I know police corruption is criminal. That's not what the people talking about "crime" are talking about.
> about corrupt police shaking down small business owners under threat of losing their business license.
would be a crime...
Some of the allegations amount to corruption, some just business realities. This is a job for FBI to figure out.
gang behaviour
But I think it's a bit more like a crime family or maybe a corrupt political machine than it is like a gang.
If businesses want to hire security, they should. But it shouldn't be a requirement of having a business. It comes off like the boss of the crime family telling you "I just want to get my beak wet". Like they're shaking down the small businesses.
And it's hard to argue that they aren't.
> Here’s how the off-duty work program works: Some businesses — like large nightclubs — are required by the city to have security, which until 2020, sometimes had to be off-duty Minneapolis police officers.
Nightclubs often are required to have security beacuse they are a nuisance to the surrounding area and the taxpayer shouldn't be picking up the tab because you decided to overserve your customers. The off duty cop requirement is the only odd part here in my view and that appears to be gone now.