Same reason the NYPD has a branch in Vatican City
spoiler
It's imperialism
Is the LAPD competing in the 100 meter shooting an unarmed immigrant in the back?
100m is the event with police cars, right?
The up close unarmed point blank is the one without cars.
Ukrainian neo-nazi bombs the Olympics and kills a bunch of LAPD and gets shot, blue on blue.
This is Chris Tucker in Rush Hour 2 screaming "Get down, I'm LAPD" in the middle of Hong Kong
Oh noo, we are letting gangsters from a powerful organised crime group cross our borders?
But seriously, they will get special ops to 'keep an eye on them', right?
I don't wanna read headlines like 'the tourist officer mistook the croissant for a loaded gun and feared for his life, now treated for ptsd after the traumatic event'.
