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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
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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
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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
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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
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All around the world, cops and rent-a-cops are vigorously enforcing nonexistent anti-terrorist bans on photography in public places.
Boing Boing 2009
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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
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Jack Spiegel burst into the lobby of Lobe Industries, two Keystone rent-a-cops tripping along behind him.
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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
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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
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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
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