Remember that when you see statistics declaring Washington D.C. to be "the most policed city in America" a lot of that is that...
Remember that when you see statistics declaring Washington D.C. to be “the most policed city in America” a lot of that is that the people who would be private security guards in normal office buildings are organized as like, sworn officers of the “Federal Protective Service” or something for federal facilities
It makes sense anyway that the national capital should be number one on the list of cities by most policing.
Bro, that dude in a uniform with a gun at your local IRS and Social Security office is a federal employee with some special powers irt being allowed to arrest and shoot people. They’re mostly doing security guard stuff, but they are better paid, better trained, to higher standards, and have some special powers (and very nice health insurance and retirement), which is reasonable considering how local federal offices are obvious targets for discontents and crazy people.
Considering that the capital is even more obviously a target of discontents, crazy people, and foreign agents, having a higher class of more toothy security seems reasonable.
G4S wouldn’t have held against the January 6th mob like police did.
Yeah the way it’s been coming off lately is re: the DC council voting in the face of all the DC executives’ opposition for sentence-reducing criminal reforms, people are citing that to frame poor Chocolate City as uniquely heavily controlled through policing but I’m saying the guy with a cap behind the front desk of some random Department of Agriculture building shouldn’t be measured in terms of the ability to apply state force to Black District communities, his interaction with them if anything is to take his pay packet and benefits back there as a member.