Feature; March 27, 2007; Pinkerton’s Men Pinkerton’s Men The Nation says that Pinkerton’s mercenary police force is “the greatest disgrace that has befallen the United States.” That was ...

Only the U.S. government is restricted from hiring mercenaries under what is known as the Anti-Pinkerton Act of 1893. The Fifth Circuit interpreted this statute in a 1977 decision as prohibiting the ...

For Pinkerton, the bet is twofold: first, ... Congress and 23 states passed “anti-Pinkerton” acts, banning government bodies from hiring mercenaries as strikebreakers.

Amazon is hiring detectives from the notorious Pinkerton agency to spy on warehouse workers and monitor them for labor unionization efforts, according to a Monday Motherboard report. An Amazon ...

Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, formed in the 1800s to help law enforcement track down criminals, once sparred with the outlaw Jesse James. It later became entangled in the notorious ...