• Makan ☭ CPUSA
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    63 years ago

    Yes.

    Give me investigators of the proletarian dictatorship.

    😎

  • @solune
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    53 years ago

    I seem to recall that they were often hired for union-busting purposes? Don’t remember where I heard that though.

    • Muad'DibberA
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      53 years ago

      Ya it depends on what they’re doing, but 99% of private security firms work directly for capitalists doing things they can’t enlist the police to do. Like these cases of elon musk sicking private investigators on people who expose tesla, or say bad things about him on twitter:

      • @brainiac3397
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        53 years ago

        Considering that private investigation is an industry where almost all the income comes from corporations and wealthy individuals who want help harassing journalists, whistleblowers, or just people that the client has a petty issue with, it’s unlikely anybody who joins it to do anything good is going to find much paying work. At best, the most “neutral” aspect usually revolves around either due diligence matters for corporate acquisitions(basically researching if a company being bought is hiding bad news that’d affect their sale price) or dealing with familial matters(helping spouses who can afford a PI collect incriminating evidence for divorce proceedings and stuff like that).

        And while you’ve got Musk up for recent matters, the Koch Brothers were infamous for using PIs to harass journalists who investigated their dark money activities. The PIs sometimes weren’t even meant to find dirt or anything, just follow the person around and essentially spook them with the whole “you’re being watched” stuff.