Maybe because it's doing it's job?
regular citizens are rounded up and their protection is removed from them
Maybe that's because the regulars give in.
Rent-a-cops, as depicted in the article, are not the problem, they are an example of the solution working.
"Maybe that's because the regulars give in."
In NO there was no choice but to give in or give it up, by the regulars, however the "gated communities" are left in tact.
So that being the case who is going to protect the "gated community" from their own hired help???
Now I am not advocating that "gated communities" be plundered, looted and burned, which apparently is the distance most on this subject can think.