There are approximately 1,077,520 private security guards employed in the United States (Bureau of Labor Statistics), with approximately 700,000 sworn police officers. The training for security officers can be a little as 8 to 40 hours prior to them being employed or assigned to a work location. Security officers are on the front line of law enforcement work, and are the first responders in many cases where a citizen needs help. The advent of large Shopping or Commercial Malls across America has created mini city like environments that rely exclusively on the Private Security Forces hired to...

In 2015, there have been a total of one thousand one hundred and thirty four civilians shot to death by police (http: //killedbypolice.net/) with a total of thirty six police officers in 2015 being shot and killed in the line of duty, there have been a total of one hundred and eighteen officers who died on duty during 2015 (https: //www.odmp.org/search/year). So far in 2015, U.S. police killed 776 people, 161 of whom were completely unarmed at the time of their death. The data was compiled by The Guardian for a project called "The Counted," a continuously updated, interactive database of...

The purpose of this book is to introduce the security officer to the elements of "Domestic Terrorism," which is a growing threat in the United States of America. Since the terrible infliction of harm during 911, most Americans have been confronted with the reality of what terrorism means and its harm to the American way of life. We have all been changed since 911, and some of the freedoms we once had before that incident have been taken away. Government has seen fit to adopt laws to enter the privacy of the American citizens' lives and ignore the Constitution (Patriot Act), freedom to enter...