Captain Shea Brennan and Sergeant Thomas both wear Pinkerton Detective Agency badges. Pinkerton is a private security guard and detective agency founded in 1850, it still exists to this day in the form of Pinkerton Security. In 1871 the US government contracted law enforcement in certain territories to Pinkerton as they did not have sufficient US Marshalls, Pinkerton agents were tasked with enforcing federal law in the territories and Indian Nation, they sometimes were also hired as private security for wagon trains heading west. As of 1883 Pinkerton was the largest private government contractor in the world, in the 1890's the government began using Pinkerton agents against organized labor groups, Pinkerton agents quickly became known as strike breakers and by the early 20th century were not well liked by the general public. Pinkerton agents would infiltrate unions and use threats and intimidation to break up strikes.
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