> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
I found this story interesting. I didn't know that we had all of these disparate police forces roaming around. I haven't visited DC and they aren't really featured in the media. Seeing some of these various forces show up at protests, and having them behave unexpectedly when asked to identify themselves, has attracted my curiosity. I'm glad that someone took the time to write about them.
Note that I'm not prepared to blindly trust Politico's opinions about these policing forces, but opinions are part of what makes this interesting to read.