Cops in Georgia Fall Back to Their Roots of Serving and Protecting Those With Money

Nearly every Walmart location has a few common departments — grocery, pharmacy, housewares — but an Atlanta store is slated to have one that few others have: police.

Plans call for the Walmart in Atlanta's Vine City neighborhood to include a designated workspace for law enforcement officers when it reopens in May next year.

Let's call this for what it is: Putting a police station inside of a private business to serve the needs of said private business. Calling it a "law enforcement workspace" is just another euphemism from a company that calls its hourly workers "associates".

If Wal-Mart wants to have security in its stores, they have the money to hire "loss prevention specialists". If they want to hire off-duty cops at their time-and-a-half rate, they can try to do that. But building cop shops inside private businesses?

Fuck that shit.

Police are public servants, supposedly, and their stations/substations/"law enforcement workspaces" should be in public buildings that are open to the citizenry whose taxes pay for them, without having to go onto or into private property.

In the first half of the 19th Century, the function of police in Georgia was helping rich slaveowners keep their chattel in line. Seems that not much has truly changed.