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Mormons Make Great FBI Recruits

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80 points churchill | 4 comments | 01 May 23 13:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.922s | source
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vulcan01 ◴[01 May 23 20:24 UTC] No.35778640[source]▶
> Often, after a long career in the FBI, agents will join the Latter-day Saints’ Security Department

Why does a church have a security department, especially one that staffs so many people? The article states that most of them work desk jobs, which probably means they aren't running physical security at individual churches, so what kind of threats does the church overall face?

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1. elliekelly ◴[01 May 23 20:52 UTC] No.35778975[source]▶
I would imagine it’s less to police or protect the church locations and more to “police” the actions of their parishioners.
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2. deadscottfalcon ◴[01 May 23 21:48 UTC] No.35779667[source]▶
Unrelated, I once did a salesforce buildout for a well-known church. You would be surprised at the amount of fields on the “church member management” page. Large text fields for input on “what did this person say about the church that was negative?” Investigation and credibility tracking… I was shocked.
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3. cjmcqueen ◴[02 May 23 04:15 UTC] No.35783300[source]▶
No it's not. The church owns a lot of property and has many high profile leaders. Church security does not do anything close to police work on/for parishioners.
4. cjmcqueen ◴[02 May 23 04:17 UTC] No.35783308[source]▶
The LDS Church doesn't have a record keeping tool like this and it is intentional. We believe in repentance and records like that can often get in the way of the repentance process