My wife was a cop, as everyone probably knows. Her city issued an edict that cops were not allowed to take these benefits. She said that a couple of businesses kept doing it anyway, but most stopped. This came after a murder, of course. A cop was getting reduced rent at an apartment complex where a girlfriend stabbed her boyfriend to death. The boyfriend's family made a big stink about how the cop was being paid to protect the people that live there (you know, with his super-need for no sleep and x-ray vision), so that effectively ended the free stuff.