alt Hacker NewsI read up about it after watching Deadwood. The most surprising I found is that they still exist in some form: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency).
I read up about it after watching Deadwood. The most surprising I found is that they still exist in some form: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency).
They were in the news in 2020 after a Pinkerton subcontracted guard shot and killed a protestor. I was surprised at the time that they still existed.
https://denverite.com/2023/03/24/pinkerton-license-renewed/