Mall Security
The mall's private security personnel was featured in 2010 TLC series Mall Cops: Mall of America.
In 2011, NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition, PBS's Newshour both aired programs documenting security abuses by the Mall's security personnel.
At the mall people have been questioned or detained for operating video cameras, using notebooks, or other perceived suspicious behavior. Mike Rozin, the leader of the mall's special security-unit instructs its members that "suspicious behavior" constitutes "photographing such things as air-conditioning ducts or signs that a shopper might have something to hide". Commander Jim Ryan of the Bloomington Police Department commented that the mall's security methods may "infringe on some freedoms, unfortunately."
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