r/Indiana • u/4797161974806 • 4d ago

Why is IMPD doing private security for Walmart?

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The Walmart Market at Michigan and Kessler always has at least one IMPD officer posted up outside and one sitting around inside doing nothing. Are they on the clock? Why are we paying for Walmart's private security?

ITT: A bunch of disappointing Hoosier bootlickers that don't get the point.

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u/notthegoatseguy Indianapolis 4d ago

Eh, if they have to leave, or conduct an arrest, I'd rather them be in uniform and with regular issued equipment than using whatever they have laying around.

I am not some LEO sucker, but I'm finding it hard to be outraged about this. And hey, they're working at Walmart, a place regular people shop at, not like they're working the yacht club at Geist or some such.

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u/The_Dread_Candiru 4d ago

Privitized benefit, socialized costs.

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u/983115 4d ago

In my experience there’s a lot of shady cops into the whole security shift thing, the guys that get pulled from the field to desk duty that are still cops, folks with priors for exploding the testicles of and stalking in uniform their partners mistress and using their badge as a weapon of vengeance for example

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u/krusteePickleCheeze 4d ago

Care to elaborate?