[ASOC]

This summer I was in Tucson and visited several grocery stores with ‘off duty but paid by the city who is paid by the store’ cops.

I asked one if things had gotten that bad (as in need to CCW)

The answer - “not right now”. I found out later the parking lot was a war zone on paydays/welfare check day.....

[Oldexpat]

Even more people go onto the state employment rolls. It is a jobs program.