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>>engaging in a thousand small acts of self-preservation and defense of turf, because of all of the overlapping jurisdictions and poorly delineated lines of aut
by stickhandle 13y ago
>>engaging in a thousand small acts of self-preservation and defense of turf, because of all of the overlapping jurisdictions and poorly delineated lines of authority.
Agreed - troubled, oft-compromised. I think you may be overestimating the power of an oversight board ... in the end, I guess I seriously question the training and motivation held by those in the security guard profession.
- dnautics 13y agoI'm not going to defend security guards, as we can see in the case of George Zimmermann, things can get unhinged, but, is there any reason why you don't seriously question the training and motivation of those who wear a police badge? Because there's a lot of police abuse out there. As bad as it gets, no private security has ever bombed a neighborhood it was supposed to protect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing Sure, that's an outlier, but then there's also the Jose Guerena case. Or the Cheye Calvo case. These are more well known ones. In "The Rise of the Warrior Cop" Radley Balko lists literally hundreds of cases piling up over the past decade where egregious abuse of force occurred because of lack of police oversight.