The practice is just plain illegal.

Article: https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/10/17/small-business-owners-they-are-pressured-to-hire-off-duty-mpd-cops-for-security/

Here’s how the off-duty work program works: Some businesses — like large nightclubs — are required by the city to have security, which until 2020, sometimes had to be off-duty Minneapolis police officers. 

The city can also require that organizers of large events and businesses plagued with a lot of 911 calls also hire off-duty MPD officers. Businesses may also voluntarily hire off-duty officers for security and traffic control, and negotiate pay and hours directly with officers. 

The city doesn’t keep track of how much officers are working or how much they’re paid, or even have access to the contracts. Off-duty work often pays a lot more — up to hundreds of dollars per hour — than working overtime for MPD. 

Some officers are still paid in cash, increasing the risk of tax evasion. And, several business owners and Minneapolis officials said some small business owners — particularly those owned by immigrants — have been led to believe they must hire MPD officers, or risk getting ghosted by police. 

It was precisely this arrangement that caught the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice in its 2011 report on the New Orleans Police Department.

Ok, so now we know what's up. Several vectors for corruption.

After several East African-owned stores on Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis were vandalized in September 2019, Capitol Café owner Abdirahman Awad called his friend KB Brown, owner of a north Minneapolis print shop and a member of the Main Street Alliance of Minnesota, a group of progressive business owners.
KB Brown said the detectives were rude and disrespectful to Awad. Awad said MPD later told him he’d have to pay off-duty officers $145 an hour to provide security. He returned the next night and saw almost no police presence despite the alleged hate crime. In his view, MPD was sending a message that the cafe would only get protection if it hired off-duty officers.

That's how they "encourage" businesses to pay the government sponsored cops. No protection unless business owners pay. Who's to know that the cops "off duty" didn't vandalize the businesses which is why they acted so stupid and aggressive. It wouldn't be surprising that blue colored thug pigs would vandalize specific businesses to siphon money.

The officers wanted to be paid in cash, and would sometimes leave to respond to police calls, which benefited the city, he said.

Imagine paying "security" who just leaves whenever they want. So much for "off duty".

From the first few lines of the article:

When Maya Santamaria was opening a Minneapolis club in 2003, a city worker handed her a card for a Minneapolis police officer and said, “You’re going to work with this guy.”
To get a business license, a licensing employee told her she had to hire a certain number of off-duty Minneapolis police officers to provide security.
Why?
“Because they’re racist and we’re Mexican,” Santamaria said. “They didn’t want to let Mexicans have nightclubs.”

Plenty of movies and shows that demonstrate this in terms of organized crime. Your government doing this? It's no different. Corruption at its finest.

Eventually, another officer helped schedule off-duty work: Derek Chauvin. He worked security at her club for 17 years.

😳 Derek Chauvin was part of this corruption. Well, he's in jail now. You could've guessed, George Floyd worked at that same club as a bouncer. Chauvin was charged in tax evasion from the money that the nightclub owner has paid him! WHOOPS!

Santamaria’s allegations about MPD off-duty work are echoed by the experiences of other business owners, documented in government reports and even remarked upon by the city’s new police chief, Brian O’Hara. He said the system is “ripe for corruption,” citing a federal investigation in Jersey City, where a dozen cops were arrested due to widespread corruption of off-duty work.

Whoops! Corrupt cops in a police state. Is a product of capitalism with the rich getting richer while the others fight for scraps?