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Re:Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-d... by CptFribble on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:05AM (#37915252)
If you read The Fine Article, you will see it's not actually about security, but about police corruption - pressuring business owners of a certain skin color to hire off-duty cops as security under threat of losing their business license, when white business owners didn't appear to have the same requirements to operate.

The business owner quoted in the article goes on to say that a lot of the time the cops they had to hire weren't even there - they had minimum pay requirements for every shift they "worked" even if they left early or just sat in their car doing nothing.

Re:Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-d... by throwanem on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:04AM (#37915231)
Yeah, I just bet if I go down to Sparrows Point and try to breeze in the front door of the Amazon DH there I'll get in no problem. And what's that have to do with a Minneapolis protection racket, anyway?
Re:Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-d... by nullindividual on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:01AM (#37915178)
Do you have any evidence of your extraordinary claim?
Re:Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-d... by cityguy33 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:01AM (#37915182)
Seems WAI from a capitalist perspective. Society has a problem, society doesn’t fix problem. Corporation come up with solution. Consumers use solution
Re:Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-d... by Eumenes on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:05AM (#37915253)
This has nothing to do with capitalism and everything to do with enforcing law and order. People aren't stealing bread and milk to survive. Notice what products are behind plexiglass in large cities, its not food/essentials. District attorneys across the country are refusing to prosecute crimes like retail theft.