Banks tracking protesters "methodically"

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3. Banks can afford to waste people's money and shareholders' money on harassing protesters ??

They have too much power and no accountability. Almost nobody thinks that kind of harassment is appropriate. Not even the Bank employees, for the most part, I would guess.

Those security companies like Pinkertons pay kickbacks to the security chiefs at the banks to get the security contracts and devise ways to "protect" the banks, even though they really don't need protecting.

Alot of this is driven by internal corruption between the banks and the private security companies. A few people make a lot of money of of this. It is driven by it's own internal money-making logic and has it's own momentum, despite being a huge waste of money and pretty evil.
The banks' own mini security-industrial complex.