" For decades, corporate security has remained the somewhat sinister stepchild of law enforcement, despite the relatively recent invention of municipal police departments and uniformed peace officers. Regardless, private security - that is, security services provided by individual citizens or commercial businesses - predate federal and municipal protective services by centuries. A fundamental reason for this recent discrepancy in definition, however, rests largely with the perception of the media and municipal officials who suggest that both law enforcement and private security remain...

There used to be a time when human life held value. When entire nations would go to war over a single injury or death. Then politics became involved and slowly, over time, people took on the value of the collective. No longer were humans viewed as individual persons but, rather, as pawns "too stupid" to think for him or herself. Life became a commodity and has been shown throughout the world in places such as Bosnia, Darfur, and Rwanda, an extremely cheap commodity at that. Over "one million" Tutsis and Hutus died in genocides during 1972 and 1994, but "who" cared about blacks killing...