Yes.
Give me investigators of the proletarian dictatorship.
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I seem to recall that they were often hired for union-busting purposes? Don’t remember where I heard that though.
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:
- As a PR stunt, Musk promised to build a mini-submarine to rescue a boys soccer team that got trapped in a Thai cave in 2018. After receiving vitriol from the Thai and rescue community, Musk called one of the cave rescuers, a pedophile,2. After the rescuer sues Musk for defamation, Musk pays 50k to a private investigator (and former felon), to dig up dirt on the rescuer., and was told to use “aggressive tactics”. Musk’s team then told the investigator: “We would like you to immediately move forward with ‘leaking’ this information to the UK press. Obviously must be done very carefully.” Musk and his team even lobbied the Thai gov and prime minister to get a local official to reverse a statement saying the mini-submarine wasn’t practical, before the children had been rescued.
- Goes after whistleblowers, including sending the police after Martin Tripp ( who reported on Tesla’s fraudulent activities to the SEC ), who Musk claimed was an active shooter. Goes after several journalists who criticized him. A twitter thread of the Nov 2019 swatting police report, and those targeted by Musk.
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.
Imagine you started small restaurant and you signed some deals with schools to cook food for them.
Then one of your cooks stole your customer list with agreement details like pricing and used this information to his/her benefit.
Is that OK or not?
If not then you will work with that cook as nothing happened?
This investigated dude you were talking about has mental problems and trial found evidence of wrongdoing.
You shouldn’t trust everything you read especially when it is about company which is/was heavily shorted.
Wouldn’t be surprised.
I don’t know, Sam & Max seem like good guys to me.
You crack me up, little buddy.
