OAKLAND CA March 7 2021 The community in Oakland’s Chinatown is fighting back in its own way to protect citizens after a spike in violent attacks and robberies. An alarming number of brutal assaults, many of them unprovoked and targeting the community’s most vulnerable elderly members, have led to calls to stop the violence. Many residents […]
San Juan Capistrano CA Jan 1 2021 As a longtime resident of the San Juan Capistrano neighborhood that bears his family’s name, Stephen Rios has grown accustomed to tawdry tourists and pushy photographers. But over the last few weeks, he’s welcomed a new element that he believes is a much needed response to an unwelcome […]
Atlanta GA January 1 2021 Atlanta city council members have proposed a $1.6million plan to create a private police force in one of its wealthiest suburbs just days after a seven-year-old girl was fatally shot by a stray bullet. Kennedy Maxie died from her injuries on Saturday night, five days after she was shot in […]
MACON, Ga. Dec 26 2020— Josh Rogers with NewTown Macon says on an average Friday or Saturday night, there could be up to 7,000 people downtown. According to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, they typically have two deputies assigned to patrol downtown. However, depending on schedules, who’s sick, or who’s training, there could be […]
KIHEI HI Dec 4 2020— After a break of several months during the COVID-19 pandemic, police Citizens’ Patrol volunteers are back on the road in South Maui, patrolling beaches and parking lots in a new vehicle. “It was a long time coming,” police Lt. Audra Sellers said at a blessing for the vehicle Tuesday at […]
OSHAWA Ontario Canada June 19 2020 — Oshawa councillors have voted to spend $100,000 on a private security patrol of Oshawa’s downtown area. The dollars will be used to hire one to two security officers to patrol the downtown with the contract awarded to CDN Protection, a company that already does some patrols in the downtown […]
Seattle WA June 12 2020 Private security contractor Denise Bamba remembers the point last week when she couldn’t get off the telephone. It was the Monday after weekend protests occurred in downtown Seattle over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. Fortress Security Services, co-owned by Bamba and her husband, Deschamps, was besieged by local businesses […]
Toledo OH June 9 2020 A weekend protest in Toledo’s Old West End neighborhood — like the vast majority of local demonstrations in recent days — ended peacefully Saturday night, despite the fact that both a pair of men associated with the protests and private security guards visibly carried firearms during the evening. Now the […]
Grand Junction June 8 2020 During the coronavirus shutdown this spring, the Downtown Development Authority hired extra security to patrol the empty downtown streets. Downtown Development Authority Executive Director Brandon Stam said the security firm was hired after several business owners requested more surveillance on their shuttered storefronts. “Data shows more eyes on the street, the […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. April 24 2020— The Columbia Housing Authority has hired Brown Protective Services to remind people to obey Stay-at-Home or Work Orders issued by Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin and South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster. A letter sent out by the CHA says that it has been a problem at their properties. “Regrettably, we see […]