Pittsburgh PA Oct 16 2016 A North Side man was shot in the shoulder this afternoon after he hit a security officer with his car in Fineview, Pittsburgh police said. The driver, 31-year-old Raphael David Caruso, was charged with attempted homicide and aggravated assault. Mr. Caruso drive into the area shortly before 4:30 p.m. even though he was not permitted to be there. When the security officers confronted Mr. Caruso, he got back into his car and drove into one of them, police said. The other security guard opened fire and struck Mr. Caruso as he tried to speed away. Mr. Caruso and the injured security officer were both taken to Allegheny General Hospital in stable condition.
… of the guards with his vehicle, prompting the other guard to open fire at the vehicle. The suspect was struck and taken to Allegheny general Hospital. He is expected to survive and charges will be filed. The injured security guard is also expected …
A North Side man was shot in the shoulder this afternoon after he hit a security officer with his car in Fineview, Pittsburgh police said. The driver, 31-year-old Raphael David Caruso, was charged with attempted homicide and aggravated assault. Police …
Public safety officer Sonya Toler said officers went to Sandusky Court in Fineview after a report a security guard had been struck by a vehicle that had fled the scene. According to available information, two guards noticed a man, identified as Raphael …
PITTSBURGH – A driver who ran over a security guard was shot in the shoulder by a second guard as he tried to flee, police said. Raphael David Caruso, 31, of Central Northside, is facing charges in connection with the incident Saturday at Sandusky …
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a suspect was shot after a security guard at a Pittsburgh public housing complex was struck by a vehicle. The city’s Public Safety department said two security guards at Sandusky Court in the …
A hit-and-run driver ran down an Allegheny Dwellings security guard and was shot in the shoulder by the guard’s partner Saturday afternoon in Fineview, authorities said. Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman Sonya Toler said two private security guards ..
Authorities say a security guard at a Philadelphia-area university was hit by a stray bullet when shots were fired amid homecoming festivities over the weekend. Lincoln University said an altercation occurred just after 3:30 a.m. Sunday on the main …
(WTXF/AP) – Authorities say a female security guard working at a Chester County university was hit by a stray bullet, overnight. It happened when shots were fired just after 3:30am Sunday, amid Lincoln University’s homecoming festivities. The …
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a security guard at a Philadelphia-area university was hit by a stray bullet when shots were fired amid homecoming festivities over the weekend. Lincoln University said an altercation occurred just after …
INDIANAPOLIS – A security guard was shot at a bar Saturday night on Indianapolis’ northeast side. Police said the guard was grazed by a bullet at R&R Bar & Grill in the 7500 block of Shadeland Ave. Witnesses said a man was upset after talking to the guard.
The shooting happened just before 1:30 a.m. on the 7500 block of N Shadeland Ave. Police say the suspect in the shooting was a patron of the bar who was asked to leave. After leaving the bar, the suspect went to his car, where he was asked by the …
A security guard was shot and wounded outside a northeast side bar Sunday and has his bullet-resistant vest to thank for possibly saving his life. Shawn E. Hall, 28, was providing security at R&R Bar & Grill, 7526 Shadeland Ave., when the shooting …
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An attempted armed robbery prompted a bridge closure and landed the suspect in the hospital early Monday morning. Around 4:30 a.m., police were dispatched to the Restaurant Depot near 15000 West 12th Street upon reports of an armed robbery. According to police, a security guard at Restaurant Depot fired shots at the suspect. The suspect took off and attempted to run up the 12th Street Bridge, where police later found him. The suspect was taken to the hospital and is listed in critical condition.
The security guard shot the robber as two men attempted to holdup the Restaurant Depot along 12th Street. Police said the guard shot one of the robbers at about 4:30 a.m. The robber who was shot was taken to an area hospital for treatment of his injuries.
According to police, a security guard at Restaurant Depot fired shots at the suspect. The suspect took off and attempted to run up the 12th Street Bridge, where police later found him. The suspect was taken to the hospital and is listed in critical …
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LAS VEGAS » New details are emerging about a casino security guard who was shot and killed by North Las Vegas police last week after officials say he pummeled a 64-year-old slot machine technician to death.
North Las Vegas police investigated a homicide and a related officer-involved shooting at the Silver Nugget Casino in North Las Vegas on May 19. Two North Las Vegas casino employees are dead after one killed the other and then was shot by a police …
web1_silver_nugget_shooting.jpg North Las Vegas police investigate a homicide and a related fatal officer-involved shooting at the Silver Nugget Casino in North Las Vegas on Thursday, May 19, 2016. (Brett Le Blanc/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow …
Arriving officers were told a security guard was beating someone to death. The officers confronted the suspect in a storage area of the building. The suspect, identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as Jeremias Cruz, 30, refused to comply with …
LAS VEGAS (AP) — North Las Vegas police are identifying the patrol officer who shot and killed a casinosecurity guard after the guard allegedly pummeled a slot machine technician to death last week at the Silver Nugget. Officer Ann Cavaricci says …
A North Las Vegas Police officer, identified as 22-year-old Rodrigo Delara, shot Cruz. Cruz died at University Medical Center. Before police arrived at the casino, police say Cruz attacked Velasquez. A Silver Nugget security guard jumped in to help …
Before any words were exchanged, a casino security guard shot dead by police last week had earlier grabbed a co-worker by the neck, dragged him through employee areas of the casino and pummeled him to death, North Las Vegas police said Monday.
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About one million Americans work as security guards, twice the number of those serving as police officers. While the data does not include the number of guards who carry arms, Shoshana Walter, public safety reporter at the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), says that the security guard industry is a parallel universe where the expected norms of policing simply don’t apply.
About one million Americans work as security guards, twice the number of those serving as police officers. While the data does not include the number of guards who carry arms, Shoshana Walter, public safety reporter at the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), says that the security guard industry is a parallel universe where the expected norms of policing simply don’t apply.
“The security industry is very different from the law enforcement profession,” says Walters. “They have limited powers, they don’t have the same ability to detain or arrest, or as it relates to search and seizures. But they’re often taking on the same types of roles as law enforcement officers.”
Walters says that guards often have a small fraction of the training that police officers usually get. In the state of California, for example, a police officer is required to get a minimum of 600 hours of training—an armed guard gets about 54 hours.
“The difference there is huge,” she says.
In addition to training, regulations regarding background checks for armed guards also vary widely by state.
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SPRINGDALE, OH ) – The security guard at the center of a controversial video at the Tri-County Mall is no longer employed by the security company and not affiliated with the mall, Tri-County Mall announced.
SPRINGDALE, Ohio — Phone video of a confrontation between a man who identifies himself as Carlos and a Tri-County Mall security guard has been viewed on Facebook hundreds of thousands of times since Tuesday evening. The 12-minute video shows …
Tru Collins recorded himself inside the Tri-County Mall on Tuesday as he was being confronted by security for not following the mall’s dress code. The security guard ordered the man out of the mall because his pants were saggy. Collins claims the mall …
(Cincinnati, OH)–Fox 19 Now has posted a video of Tru Collins, who was inside the Tri-County Mall Tuesday, and made a video of himself with security guards. He was confronted for wearing baggy pants, and was told that he would need to leave. In the …
The security guard at the center of a controversial video at the Tri-County Mall is no longer employed by the security company and not affiliated with the mall, Tri-County Mall announced. Tru Collins recorded himself inside the Tri-County Mall on …
SPRINGDALE, Ohio — A young man is accusing a Tri-County Mall security guard of harassment after he was kicked out of the mall Tuesday for his “saggy pants.” Phone video of the confrontation between a man who identifies himself as Tru Carlos and the …
(Tri-County)–Fox 19 Now reports that the security guard in a phone video made at Tri-County Mall has now been fired. The mall said that the guard was employed by the security company, and was not affiliated with the mall. Tru Collins recorded himself …
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This unassuming Toronto security guard just wanted a quick fist bump from Lowry, and we’d imagine they’ve exchanged greetings before. But All-Star guard looked away just as he passed the poor guy, leaving him to contemplate his entire existence.
You can’t leave your man hanging like this. Ahead of Game 2 between the Heat and Raptors on Thursday night, Lowry passed right by a Toronto security guard who put his hand out expecting the traditional fist bump in return
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This unassuming security guard just wanted a quick fist bump from Lowry, and we’d imagine they’ve exchanged greetings before. But All-Star guard looked away just as he passed the poor guy, leaving him to contemplate his entire existence.
He needs to be locked in and focused for this one, and it appears he is — and a poor security guard saw that first hand. As ESPN was showing Lowry entering the Air Canada Centre on Thursday night, a security guard that he was walking past wanted a …
You can’t leave your man hanging like this. Ahead of Game 2 between the Heat and Raptors on Thursday night, Lowry passed right by a Toronto security guard who put his hand out expecting the traditional fist bump in return. MORE: Ranking the worst NBA …
He stayed past midnight, shooting to make sure his Game 1 performance won’t happen again. But this is cold-blooded. Poor security guard, but you have to understand that Lowry is blocking anything in his way before Game 2. The only thing he can see is …
A lone blue-shirted security guard watched from a seat behind the vacant Raptors bench as Lowry chased after his misses, clambered over rows of seats to get the ball back, tugged at his hood. But in almost every way, Kyle Lowry was alone. — Toronto Star.
Cleaners were going row to row in the stands; a couple TV cameras and a reporter here or there lingered around the edges of the court. A lone blue-shirted security guard watched from a seat behind the vacant Raptors bench as Lowry chased after his …
First at the Air Canada Centre practice court and later on the main floor, the bright lights still on, the crowd gone save for a few security guards watching, the Raptors’ most important player put his black hoodie up to block out the noise and looked …
Teams that scouted against the Raptors had never expected a point guard as dynamic and tough as Kyle Lowry, a scorer of DeRozan’s calibre, and the surprising chemistry that was created in this franchise, which at one point in the season was ready to …
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Kevin James stars as “Paul Blart” in Columbia Pictures’ comedy PAUL BLART: MALL COP.
TV and movies tell us security guards are bumbling fat idiots. They are the butt of a joke. Falling asleep with their feet up, they never pay attention to those security camera monitors while burglars steal gold or priceless paintings or stacks of cash. They’re easily distracted, easily gagged and tied up and — as in Die Hard or The Matrix or countless other action films — easily killed.
In real life, they work long, boring hours strolling the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, waving metal detectors at Mets games, printing sticky visitor passes at commercial buildings, checking IDs at concerts, standing for hours and hours on end at public landmarks, department stores, colleges, pharmacies.
Security Guards are everywhere.
Security guards really are on the front lines of public safety.
There are more than two times as many security guards than police officers in New York state and roughly 10 times as many guards as firefighters. While a lot of kids grow up itching to join the NYPD or the fire department, it’s hard to find someone who said they wanted to be a security guard when they grew up.
The guard who patrols a corporate plaza with an H&R Block and Chase Bank in Midtown wants to be a train conductor. The guard scanning IDs at a commercial office building near Grand Central dreams of a career as a stand-up comedian. The guard who works at a Duane Reade in the Upper West Side hopes to be a cop. The older guards who aren’t retired police officers, when asked what they think of a career in security, will shrug, as if to say, “It’s a job. It pays the rent.”
The security industry is growing in New York — and while being a guard is arguably a more respected profession than it was decades ago, it’s still an unglamorous and disrespected, and even dangerous, job where a negative confrontation often ends with the familiar insults “wannabe cop,” “rent-a-cop,” “flashlight cop.” People doing the gig prefer “security officer” — a term that industry leaders have used in an attempt to move away from the square-badged, bumbling fat “guard” stereotype.
In one sense, it’s working. There are definite signs that the industry is becoming more professionalized, but complaints by guards and civilians indicate the system still tolerates the abuse of low-level security workers by employers and also the physical abuse by rogue guards on ordinary citizens. City Limits dug into New York’s private security industry and found an environment where vulnerable workers are open to mistreatment, justice against abusive guards is hard to come by and there are serious gaps in oversight from government agencies that struggle to keep up with a growing industry that New Yorkers increasingly rely on to keep them safe.
The number of employed guards in New York state has risen in each of the last six years and in 2015, the 113,490 guards employed statewide was the the highest for any year since 1997, when data-keeping began. Despite this growth, City Limits found that the state agency tasked with overseeing the industry—which used to audit every security company every year to make sure employers and guards were following the rules—was forced by resource constraints to stop that practice and has not conducted a single audit in more than three years.
A security guard as defined in Article 7A of the General Business Law [§89-f (6)] is a person (other than an active police officer) employed in NYS to principally …
The DCJS Office of Public Safety provides administrative oversight for mandated security training and approves security guard training schools. The New York …
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SHREVEPORT, LA – Shreveport police have released the name of the man who was fatally stabbed Monday evening. It happened just after 9:30 p.m. at McNeil at Caddo streets in downtown Shreveport. According to a sergeant at the scene, Shreveport Convention Center security guard Tyeshom Harvey, 34, caught someone breaking into the building and the suspected burglar, identified as 34-year-old Wesley Attaway, ran off.
According to a sergeant at the scene, Shreveport Convention Center security guard Tyeshom Harvey, 34, caught someone breaking into the building and the suspected burglar, identified as 34-year-old Wesley Attaway, ran off. Police say Harvey trailed …
Shreveport Police are piecing together the minutes that lead up to a Shreveport Convention Center security guard stabbing another man downtown, seriously injuring one and leaving minor wounds on the other. SPD responded to a stabbing call in the 100 …
A short time later, police say the guard reportedly saw the suspect again and the suspect allegedly charged at the guard. That’s when the security guard pulled a knife in self-defense and stabbed the suspect in the stomach area, according to Shreveport …
Update: Wesley Attaway, 34, has been named by Shreveport Police as the man who was fatally stabbed by a Shreveport Convention Center security guard. Police say Attaway was staying at an area homeless shelter. Original Story: A convention center …
The security guard says the men were trying to break into the Convention Center and after confronting them both men lunged at him and he stabbed them in self defense. Both men have been taken to a local hospital and the situation is under investigation.
Though investigations continue, police believe the fatal actions of a Shreveport security guard were justified. On Monday night, Shreveport Convention Center security manager Tyeshom Harvey, 34, stabbed 34-year-old Wesley Attaway multiple times …
“It doesn’t appear from the preliminary information that we have gathered that the security guardwas doing anything improper,” Police Department spokesman Cpl. Marcus Hines said. “But, again, it is still ongoing.” Police said security guard Tyeshom …
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WICHITA, Kan. – A security guard at a local hospital was threatened by a man who tried to take his pistol from him early Saturday morning.
WICHITA, Kan. – A security guard at a local hospital was threatened by a man who tried to take his pistol from him early Saturday morning.
report the 47-year-old Wesley Medical Center guard was inside the hospital dealing with a disturbance when a 57-year-old man allegedly told him he was going to take the guard’s sidearm. The incident happened about 5:30 a.m. Saturday.
Police say the man and the guard began to struggle, but the guard was able to keep his weapon during the incident. The suspect was taken into custody and was arrested for aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer since the guard was considered a law enforcement officer at the time.
A Wesley Medical Center security guard reported being assaulted by a 57-year-old man in the hospital Saturday morning, Wichita police Sgt. Brian Sigman said. The 47-year-old security guard reported the man was in the hospital “creating a disturbance …
Sgt. Brian Sigman said during the disturbance, the suspect told the guard he was going to take his gun, then reached for it. A struggle ensued, but the guard was able to take the 57-year-old man into custody before officers arrived, Sigman said. The …
Wichita Police say a suspect is in custody after a confrontation with a Wesley Medical Center security guard. Police say a 57-year-old man told the guard he would take his gun. Police received a report at 5:30 Saturday morning. The suspect reached to …
A security guard is killed during an armed robbery of a Cedar Grove liquor store. It happened at the Thrifty Liquor in the 8400 block of Linwood at about 10pm. Police say a man wearing all black was in the middle of holding up the store when the …
A male wearing all black was in the process of robbing the store when the guard was shot, authorities say. The wounded guard was taken to University Health, where he was pronounced dead. In addition to the guard, several store employees and customers …
A security guard was killed in the armed robbery of a Cedar Grove liquor store late Friday night, and the assailant is still at large today, according to Shreveport police. Shreveport Police responded to a call on an armed robbery at the Thrifty Liquor …
Shreveport Police detectives are searching for the person responsible for the deadly armed robbery of a local business Friday night in west Shreveport. Just after 10 p.m., Shreveport Police patrol officers were called to the Thrifty Liquor store …
Michael Wayne Henry, 56, of Shreveport, was working security in Thrifty Liquor in the 8400 block of Linwood Avenue just after 10 p.m. Friday when an armed male entered the store and confronted him, Shreveport police Cpl. Marcus Hines said. The gunman …
KNOXVILLE — A former KUB security guard pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge of making a false bomb threat to his employe
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