This is a thing in my town, too, at night for the bars in the more visited “touristy” area. I don’t love it but I think the local police have a shortage and there were some issues.

*protection wink wink

This is America, and regardless she absolutely has grounds to sue each and every one of them.

Wow. This is unbelievably rotten.

She started out paying the officers $40 to $45 an hour, always more than one officer per night. And they didn’t just work one or two hours; they charged a minimum of four hours no matter how many they actually worked, she said. The pay gradually increased to nearly $60 an hour.

The officer rates have skyrocketed, he said. He pays officers $150 to $160 an hour, and a “scheduler” also charges $15 to $20.

Awad said MPD later told him he’d have to pay off-duty officers $145 an hour to provide security.

Those officers are paid $107 an hour, but payroll is handled by the city.

Minneapolis police officers start out making about $73,000 annually, but many are working mega overtime hours due to short staffing, pushing their salaries sky-high; 70% of officers made six figures last year.

Prosecutors said Chauvin failed to pay taxes on $95,920 he earned doing security for El Nuevo Rodeo between 2014 and 2019. In addition to EME Antro Bar, where prosecutors said Chauvin was paid $250 cash for 3.5 hours, he also worked off-duty shifts at Cub Foods and Midtown Global Market.

Eventually, another officer helped schedule off-duty work: Derek Chauvin. He worked security at her club for 17 years.

She sold the club in 2019. When Santamaria saw Chauvin pinning George Floyd on the pavement in the video that shocked the world, she recognized both, because Floyd worked as a bouncer inside the club in 2019.

El Nuevo Rodeo burned to the ground during the subsequent riots.

Santamaria’s allegations about MPD off-duty work are echoed by the experiences of other business owners, documented in government reports and even remarked upon by the city’s new police chief, Brian O’Hara. He said the system is “ripe for corruption,” citing a federal investigation in Jersey City, where a dozen cops were arrested due to widespread corruption of off-duty work.

hmmm

hey, you got a nice place here. Nice family business. It would be awful if something were to happen to it. Maybe we could swing by and checkup on it from time to time to be sure it’s safe. Can you really put a price on your safety? Think about your kids.