Patrol is a new startup offering property owners the chance to rent out off-duty police officers to "protect their homes."

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.”

  • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    28·
    12 days ago

    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.

  • Ava@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    21·
    12 days ago

    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.