A spinoff of the company "Protector" — an Uber-style rentier app that lets users temporarily hire an armed bodyguard — Patrol offers property owners the chance to rent out "off-duty police officers to help protect their homes."
Dystopian Startup Lets the Wealthy Rent Off Duty Cops on Demand
https://futurism.com/startup-rent-cop-patrol
3 Comments
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 28 pts · 1y
Cops have long made good money doing security work on the side. Nothing new about that.
What is new is making an Uber-style app to be a single point of hire, this bringing police into the "gig economy". I would care more if police hadn't already proved that they're willing weapons against the working class.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
The goal is to gigify everything.
Ava@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
Sorry... their plan is to have specifically police do this? And then that police officer will, without normal protections and secured only by an app, arrive to a known location, likely at night?
That's... a choice.