Quote:Typically bars and clubs will pay off duty police officers to provide security.  It's the same at any sporting event.  The city/county/state doesn't provide officers for "security" paid out of tax payer money.  The owners of the properties or the people holding the events will typically hire off-duty police officers to provide security.  It has a couple of advantages.  It puts a few extra dollars in the police officer(s) pocket and provides a lesser cost security for the event.

 

Police officers working at a game aren't "assigned" there and are not working for the government that employs them at that point.  They are working as "freelancers" or "contract employees".  In the case of this thread, the officers could refuse to take the job and force the employers to hire outside security.  If said security is going to be armed security, then it's going to cost them more.

 

It has nothing to do with police "not doing their jobs".  As I said multiple times, if a law enforcement issue comes up, then officers on duty will respond.

an off duty officer can arrest people just as an on duty officer can...It's kind of strange how they call them "off duty" but then when people ask why the police officers get to drive their police cars home, the police always respond with, " Police officers are on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year". There was recently a big fuss about Beyonce singing an anti police song after getting a police escort to her concert... 

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