Originally Posted by
freecia
Like the neighborhood watch street patrol? So they were once the people you didn't want to make eye contact with lest they take it as an invitation to persuade you to go for (very) overpriced drinks and now they're the people who should deter off... something... harassment or street crime related? Could they be keeping their turf claims (for solicitation, promotion, or otherwise) current?
These are people dressed like Japanese police men but they’re not police. They’re uniformed neighborhood street patrol type people and they’re all over the place in and near Roppongi station. This patrol squad seems to be about 1/3 Japanese, 2/3 African.