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  • The plainclothes rent-a-cops, complete with Secret Service-type earpieces and Men in Black-style neckties and business suits, come from an Anchorage-based outfit called DropZone Security, which also runs a bail bond service and an Army-Navy surplus store - with one of those anti-Obama "Joker" posters pasted to its window.

    Michael Winship: The Pulpit of Bullies Michael Winship 2010

  • The plainclothes rent-a-cops, complete with Secret Service-type earpieces and Men in Black-style neckties and business suits, come from an Anchorage-based outfit called DropZone Security, which also runs a bail bond service and an Army-Navy surplus store -- with one of those anti-Obama "Joker" posters pasted to its window.

    Michael Winship: The Pulpit of Bullies Michael Winship 2010

  • This is what you get when you hire minimum wage rent-a-cops to protect Federal Buildings.

    Director takes blame over lax security at federal buildings 2009

  • The plainclothes rent-a-cops, complete with Secret Service-type earpieces and Men in Black-style neckties and business suits, come from an Anchorage-based outfit called DropZone Security, which also runs a bail bond service and an Army-Navy surplus store - with one of those anti-Obama "Joker" posters pasted to its window.

    Michael Winship: The Pulpit of Bullies Michael Winship 2010

  • All around the world, cops and rent-a-cops are vigorously enforcing nonexistent anti-terrorist bans on photography in public places.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • I case the plaza for cops and/or rent-a-cops and, seeing none, we head for the entrance.

    The Great Toothbrush Robbery Con Chapman 2011

  • Jack Spiegel burst into the lobby of Lobe Industries, two Keystone rent-a-cops tripping along behind him.

    HOW QUICKLY WE FORGET • by Scott W. Baker 2009

  • As one commentator suggests, the final catch-all allows Emanuel to hire anyone he wants, be they rent-a-cops, Blackwater goons on domestic duty, or whatever.

    Outlawing dissent: Rahm Emanuel's new regime | Bernard Harcourt 2012

  • An investigation has been promised by local police, who say private “rent-a-cops” lack the training to respond to literary disturbances with the proper level of insensitivity.

    Grammar Police Brutality Charged in Subject-Verb Disagreement Con Chapman 2011

  • The plainclothes rent-a-cops, complete with Secret Service-type earpieces and Men in Black-style neckties and business suits, come from an Anchorage-based outfit called DropZone Security, which also runs a bail bond service and an Army-Navy surplus store -- with one of those anti-Obama "Joker" posters pasted to its window.

    Michael Winship: The Pulpit of Bullies Michael Winship 2010

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