People are at the end of their wits with organized gangs and homeless. What do you expect?
I mean, they aren’t wrong, per se. I think if that’s the price we pay to not have people doing the things GP described then it seems like an acceptable price.
I would prefer that criminals were not beaten and that we find a better solution. I don’t think we have to choose between police brutality and crime.
PBaaS
I'm imagining that if a tech startup ran a protection racket, this is how they would brand it.