lmao "modern police aren't exactly identical to police in the 1870s, therefore we rate this mixed"
Patrols in the northern U.S. also became useful for breaking up labor strikes before they became too destructive (Marxist political historian Eric Hobsbawm referred to the mechanisms of violence and destruction of property to agitate for better working conditions as "collective bargaining by riot") and these services became increasingly utilized as the country became more populated and conditions simultaneously grew more difficult for the United States' restive economic underclasses.
Once class traitors, always class traitors.
I think the most fucked up part about this is you know the restaurant employees (the ones who actually do the work during these surges) won't see a cent of this extra profit and 100% of it will go straight to the shareholders and executives.