The Spotlight: Business of private security in Seattle is booming | FOX 13
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- As Seattle Police staffing dwindles and crime rises to historic levels, many businesses are turning to private security. The Spotlight goes inside the secretive world of protection for hire. And talks to families shattered by the violence spurred by downtown’s open air drug markets.
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it baffles me up that a city so set on "defunding the police" is having such an issue with drugs and crime... its just bewildering how this could happen.
1+2=7? All those state funded homless solutions that cost millions never even coming close to seeing the value of the money put in just s bunch of cronyism circle jerks
Yeah, it’s always as simple and Fox News and cnn. No grey area. Just political comments like that.
Drugs are literally everywhere now and it's even worse in the Midwest. It's just more in the open in Seattle due to lax laws regarding public intoxication and decriminalized substance use. It's worse in Ohio and West Virginia. Definitely an issue everywhere.
@@rsohlich1 So u haven't seen the clips of ppl walking into walgreens wheeling a suite case then filling it up & walking out? No 1 stopping them. CA just does it better
Your Sarcasm is outstanding! Thanks for that, I needed it. If I had the money to get out of WAshed up state, I'd have been gone by now. Good luck to everyone that still lives here too.
Then they wonder why we hate them. IDIOTS Let's go Brandon - FJB times 40 Trillion.
Being an ex security guard on the streets of Seattle, my partner and I made sure we had narcan of we came across someone having an overdose.
On September 02, 2022. I lost my security guard partner to a shooting, she was shot and killed in front of me. Every day, I struggle to climb to out of bed and go about my day.
Im sorry to hear that 😢
Sorry for your loss! I hope Seattle gets cleaned up because I’d love to live there again. 😶
My condolences to you your partner and all who knew her.
@@BruceBurger unless they bring in the national guard that’s probably not gonna happen
Can you blame businesses for hiring private armed security when seattle city council, previous mayor, and citizens want to defund the police? Can you blame businesses for wanting to leave seattle?
i dont see why businesses need to stick around. are they waiting for it to get worse? then they should triple their prices to make up for the losses from BLM theft and additional security costs.
@@BobRooney290 Democrats have turned Seattle into the communist shithole my parents and I fled 4 decades ago!
Same in Portland Oregon
How about the current Governor Inslee? The guys worthless and has done nothing for any city across WA State
A lot of businesses stood by blm and the defund the police notion. The businesses are getting what they asked for .
What’s cheaper then private security and more effective than waiting for police? A concealed carry permit.
What are you going to do, shoot a shoplifter? You would go to jail and get sued,
It's better to show force (security/ private police) or the real cops but we know how the Seattle city council is
Where is it that they live? Oh ya Bainbridge Island
@@Jesse-bb4qj I carry 2 guns, if they get dicey after I kick their legs out and take back the property, then it’s a fair fight if they take one of my pistols. 99% they will fuck right off before it escalates to that, try showing some grit and we wouldn’t have this cancer in our society.
@@drewedison7783 this is the problem with people like you. I agree with your ideology, but most people like you havent interacted with many real criminals, and I promise you that most criminals wouldnt give a fuck about your gun
@@godcomplex5821 Until they’re on the receiving end of hot lead
@@Jesse-bb4qj No. It would equalize the confrontation when someone decides to use a crowbar, saw, or firearm to rob your business, car, life.
Citizens in FREEATTLE should get a refund on their taxes after defunding the police so citizen's can afford security!
or not have to pay taxes at all. I would like to see a la carte tax system. with all the tech companies in the region now, the taxes collect by city/state should easily afford "refunding the police" as long as the starting salaries are high enough--which they should be.
Taxes in America are stolen and not spent on Americans
It's the citizens who supported defunding the police.. do you need a history lesson?
Yes
The voters got exactly what they voted for and I love it.
Same here! I'm laughing out loud at the hypocrisy these liberals show on a daily basis.
So do I
Lol you love that 15 year old kids are being gunned down? You can’t be loved by many
Because, as we all know, elections matter. And when folks vote, they order what they want. And in this case, they got what they asked for.
Kamala Harris
@@wokejoke2675 BINGO !
That bus stop has been a hell hole for many many years. I used to have to catch my bus to go home there. I never felt safe. From WTO to today's drugs and gangs. I have told my relatives from New York not to come here to visit. Seattle has become a frightening dump. Nothing like it was before. Thank you for making it this way Seattle City Council.
It wasn't nearly as bad 7 or 8 years ago. In 1999 Seattle was a clean, safe city.
@@dominysynclair Not if you had to wait for a bus to go home or ride the bus to downtown to work. My bus several times picked-up people who being chased or attacked on 3rd avenue. Now it's just worse.
@@lauriegates5856 I lived in Belltown for 10 years. I used to walk downtown every night. People weren't being chased and attacked. There were just a lot of shady types hanging around doing drug deals and panhandling.
That's great for you, but as a woman is was scary. My bus driver did pick up
@@dominysynclair my bus driver did pickup people trying to get away
drove bus in seattle for 17 years. so glad to be out of that $hit hole. Never going back. Don't miss it at all.
@@love-ml3ep i would rather live in Alaska
Moved from seattle 4 months ago, so glad!!
They aren't even at 880 SPD officers. When the mandates came out, they lost 50 deployable officers, but they kept them on the books to inflate the staffing numbers, to make the public think staffing isn't that bad
50 officers wouldn't make much difference. Seattle Police officer cap is around 1500. They are nearly 650-700 officers short.
@@huggybear2789 Still better than no additional officers. The more the merrier. 50 can make a world of a difference, maybe not all over, but in certain areas and vicinities, especially the more troubled areas, it can.
Seattle was a beautiful place at one time 😢
Beautiful place, but I always thought there was something wrong with the people. In the last 5 years, the people of Seattle have made me look like a genius.
@@dominysynclair I'm talking 30+ years ago
Well......thanks to the tech companies and high Real Estate.
@@whymindsetmatters In your opinion, what happened?
Democrats ruin everything
It’s unbelievable what Seattle has become. I am packing up and getting out of here.
Not just Seattle but all of western WA.
If you voted Democrat in the past 20 years, stay there and enjoy the mess you helped create
@BEAR JEW if your waiting for me to respond I've never voted for a dem never will. And thats for 35 years. Live 60 miles south of Seattle. There are tons of people in WA that vote for the right it just so happens they stacked the shit high in seattle.
I say leave just keep your politics there
@@Organize-pv7ys I said it don't matter where you take or leave your politics the empire is collapsing you dummy
Thanks David, for showing what really happens in Seattle. I wasn't a little disheartened in hear the Mayor say he inherited this problem when he's been on the city council for years...Really?🤔
a progressive liberal mayor lying? i'm as shocked as you are!
🤣 ikr shyt had me Rollin 😆
And yet now deals with this everyday in an even larger arena, we must also expect and exercise more of OUR abilities to create better, this falls on many and isn't impossible, albeit challenging at times. Blessings safety and protection for us and our families..it's just a bump in the road...🙌🌹🙏
Well He is making changes Now, that’s what is important
Amazon security is a joke though, they are just regular people with security shirts on.
💀💀💀😂😂😂
Cheap security
Mr Bradley thank you for this inside look. Your a good man providing a good and much needed service. May God keep you and yours safe in these troubled times. 🙏🏽
You watch, the first time a private security guy shoots someone in the leg, even if there's video, audio and witnesses and 100s of saying the security guy was right, he's getting crucified by the Seattle judicial system and going straight to prison.
If he isn't in the right he should.
WOKE = SHIT
Yep, no qualified immunity for them.
@@blurtam188 You just can't read can you?
@@randallsmerna384 Not exactly incentive to do their jobs. I wouldn't, especially in Seattle.
That summer of love, established by the previous mayor Jenny Durkan, is costing the citizens dearly.
Remember when all these business had defund the police and BLM signs on their windows. They wanted this
Good reporting David and Fox 13 on this under reported topic. Public safety is a service we've all paid for, but now how accessible is it for the common citizen?
Get a CPL by contacting your local police precinct, Verify your address, And book an appointment to get a CPL and 30-90 days you can get a License and go pick up a Pistol. Do it
@@Eliqueme True. I live in East Hill, Kent. Have my CPL. Even in the nicer areas in Kent as you head East it's getting worse. Of course Benson/516 is actually pretty sketchy as bus routes run that highway and Kent Station is just down the hill. This whole region is circling the toilet. Move out while you still can.
@@huggybear2789 or just live in more remote areas, Although the politics still affect you. I just love it better because of my tribal affiliation as a quinault representative. I can't have the same rights and decrees I have as here then anywhere else, I wouldn't have my rights as a human being and an indigenous person because the GOV hates Indians so much its just horrible. I wish I could but my spirit couldn't allow it (sorry if I sound dumb but it's part of my culture 😁)
It’s only for those in rich neighborhoods.
Haha ..when he took that seatbelts off...dude was like GOD bless yall have a good night..lol😂
Amazing how someone "suffering mental challenges" can be miraculously healed
by the sound of an heavily armed officer removing his seat belt. Reform at its best.
It’s not like people aren’t willing to join SPD. The moment I turned 20.5 I applied and tested. The problem is how long it takes to even get into the hiring process. I’ve been sitting stagnant waiting on SPD for over a year having taken the test 3 separate times due to their recruiting department losing my scores. There are people who want to help this city and the community they love and do this job for the right reasons. It’s just sad that SPD hasn’t streamlined their recruiting process to find and push those individuals through.
Thats every government job in general not just SPD. Process is extremely long and complex than it has to be. To be fair government has staffing issues as well which makes everything slow.
@@Duran762 exactly. Keep trying Isiah.
Not all armed security companies do this type training, in fact it’s rare
Oh and Seattle gets what it votes for, want change STOP VOTING FOR RADICAL DEMOCRATS! And vote out the current city council, they created this problem with failed policies
They didn't have much training really requirements really, where I live you have to be trained and certified with with more duty weapons and qualify a decent amount higher than law enforcement, hardest part is to shorten up report writing and have to learn to write reports on a napkin and remember to not throw it away it you can help it. Lol Dear Lt. It's me again, bad guy came at me. I stopped bad guy. Do you copy that Lt? Over. Haha
City Council voted 8-1 for a 2022 city budget that cuts police funding in 2022. Hold them responsible.
The problem is the citizens won't hold the council responsible. They are voting for garbage and than act surprised when they get garbage.
@@zombieshoot4318 Then it sounds Seattle need different citizens... I do think it's not just a Seattle problem but a West Coast problem.
Remember when downtown was clean, some what safe, and you could enjoy the beautiful architecture and views of the sound/mountains? Yea I do to it would be nice to go back to that.
Gonna need the military to clean it back up
I work on 6th Avenue, I catch bus 150, every bus stop has ppl smoking Fentanyl, they smoke on the bus. I go home to my family with sore throat and headache, people act like it's normal, why are people allowed to sell dangerous drugs, why do we have to breathe it. Why is the 22 year old street person Fentanyl gut get treated like same immunity as actual homeless, why do judges let a drug dealer out that will affect hundreds of people and teens with drugs, why are people so adamant about covid deaths but not overdoses, why is it considered compassionate to let people do drugs until they die. Place is like living in hell....
Why is throwing a fish such a draw?
Hahahaha
The guys who ran up on him…that’s how it is all over Seattle. And some of them are so drunk/high they have a really short fuse. I’ve had to threaten a person with a monkey wrench on a Seattle job site to have them back off. Place is a shit hole and I haven’t been there in 4 years.
"if you want to be safe you have to pay for it"
What happened to the second amendment? Legislated and litigated away in exchange with Lawlessness.
Thank your city council for this.
I'm so glad I don't live near Seattle or Washington in general. I just got my training and private security licenses last week here in San Diego, California and it's nothing like this, the police are ACTUALLY doing something here and helpful.
Stay away from San Francisco its just as nuts right now too
@@punishmaster2047 it was worse then seattle. stayed in sf for 4 months and came running back up here kissing the ground.i thought about going down to san diego though but after sf am worried it just gets worse the more south you go
Good story I am a arm security officer for a private security company the training that you get are the basics you have to use your common sense to make it in that business if you don’t you need to get out of it before you get hurt and get someone else hurt I’ve been doing it for 39 years in my 39 years I’ve had oneAssault on me you have to use common sense if you want to be a good security officer or you could step it up to be a good or excellent police officer
Maybe u should shine the spotlight on why cops are leaving the spd in droves. ie city council/state legislature
They forgot to show how many officers Seattle had before they left.
Hey he just passed by Holy Smoke in cap hill, the best smoke shop in Seattle. The owner is such a good dude, he often gives people discounts if they are broke and always allows homeless people to chill inside to keep warm or get out of the rain as long as they are respectful. It's seriously the closest thing to a Bodega Seattle has haha
Since they don't get protection from police, maybe they should not pay tax. Or deduct the private security cost from the tax...
My favorite place is , was once Seattle. That was in the 80s. Returned their in 2022. Sad I hardly recognize the place. I pray it gets resolved for the better.
I love the role player dude “you should probably taze him” lmao
I'm not gonna do that
That is exactly how businesses in other countries protect their businesses and customers. They even have citiziens with private guards for themselves and children 24/7
Third world
@wokejoke2675 it's not really third world if citizens can afford to have their own private security for themselves and their kids. It's crime was rappent and no way to fight back like Mexico cities filled with cartel then that's third world.
Get rid of Seattle's city council....they are happy about this
This is what voting democrat gets you
The question is: How do we comeback from this, these cops aren't gonna return. They are GONE, we have to hire new officers or else Seattle is done... 😔
Good luck with that after the way they were treated, and in some cases still are being treated! The pay isn't enough to put up with that sort of garbage!
If officers are paid more to be private security when they are off duty…..then why would they fight crime while they were on duty? So-weird how actual life works!
There’s the problem. You have a criminal on the street with a gun but is ok because he have never use it.
This was so cool to watch. I’m in security. And wow I’m impressed with this security officer. Stay safe brother 🫡
Allied Universal runs most of the private security in Seattle and the surrounding areas. I used to work for allied
Me 2 in Cali sandiego same thing it's big business security ever in sandiego and LA
Thankfully allied universal is on its way down.
Maybe business's should pay for "private" security. And we as citizens deserve the right to protect ourselves, along with the police who we pay taxes for.
Yeah. These buinesses get subsidized enough, especially Amazon
I hurts me to see Seattle have turned out to be a high crime City 😔 I lived up there as a kid in the early 90s it was nice then 🙄
Perfect, that's what Seattle needs!!!!!
Thank you for your service
Who the F! Want to be police officer this days in Blue city? People, media, politicians, judges, own boss don’t want to back them up when they need help.
Hey private security whatever works… give the money to the honest armed guards who wanna protect the city.
Wantabe cops with a power trip..that will make it better
Definitely not all of them. Yes I've dealt with some of them, really frustrating
"He's been arrested before for waving a gun around at the inter section".
And he still has a gun.
I think I may have spotted the 'loophole'!
Sounds like South Africa.
If any of these people complaining wanted the police defunded i say let um be robbed, or vandalized. Let the open air drug market boom on there door step. They asked 4 it. Police need more funding and better training aswell as way for them to decompress
Thanks for another Spotlight addition 🙌🏾
For an officer, he failed in informing his security guards, deescalating the situation is the number 1 thing military and officers are trained to do.
lmfao. the military is not trained to de-escalate. the military is trained to kill the enemy. from the soldier's creed: "I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy, the enemies of the United States of America in close combat."
The result of “defund the police.”
Seattle makes more money than some states in the south, I would say they’re doing pretty fine for themselves!!!
I know where Jeremy DeWitte needs to move once he's out of prison. He would live for this shit. This just looks like a bunch of police impersonators who don't want to join SPD and get to run around detaining and questioning people until SPD actually shows up. Weird dynamic for sure.
Oh God, could you imagine DeWitt here in Seattle. 🤣🤣
I don't know about police impersonators but security is an actual career. As I've worked as an armed security years ago some of my coworkers were Retired military and police Personnel. So be very careful with that, as it can be an insult.
@@nickodemusjohnson I promise I meant no disrespect at all to security officers. I was just trying to see if anyone else knew who he was and sometimes when I make a Jeremy DeWitte comment, since not a lot of people have been following the JD saga on Real World Police or other channels. When I make a comment about JD I usually get only a few other people who know who he is and it's like an inside joke. Cheers!
@@nickodemusjohnson You should look into the story because he's not even able to do ANY type of security because he's a sex offender AND he claims to be a retired Major AND Captain in the Army and constantly commits Stolen Valor.
@@nickodemusjohnson He's in prison for another new months and the joke was that when get gets out, that he would TOTALLY love to be able to work ok this LEGIT security force and be able to detain people. Once you go down the Jeremy DeWitte rabbit hole, you'll understand what I was saying. You won't be disappointed. Netflix is apparently picking up his story and he may just be the next Tiger King as far as Netflix infamy.
Where's the best place to live...
Mountlake Terrace?
My friend worked private security around SeaTac until he happened to run into a couple tweaker breaking into cars. Long story short after stealing his car, they tried to run him down, but settled for driving by and using the shotgun as a bat and his head as a ball. He lived but lost partial sight in one eye, migraines, nerve damage and PTSD.
Thank the Seattle lawmakers for defunding the police and not giving a shit about the city or people of Seattle.
This is what happens when you vote Democrat. Own it Seattle
No way as a security officer should you get in between the gun and the person
its disturbing how just the presence of security or law enforcement draws the criminal element out to protect their turf.
even more disturbing is that small towns are being plaqued the same way. local gas stations even public libraries in our dmall town, kendall wa have persons guarding those properties as their turf for whatever criminal intentions are on the menu for the day. many are from az, ca, las vegas etc. they are even in the way if the children using the library sàfely and try to màke coversation with them. its scary knowing the risk of abductiond, sex trafficking, narcotics etc. people from down south near the mexico border are way up here in our small town beside the canadian border
Politicians here are a joke.
In the interest of transparency, the vast majority of Amazon security personal are unarmed. The most they can do is call SPD and remove disruptive parties from the Amazon campus. The ONLY armed security personal are employed by SP+ in the position of traffic control located at each Amazon building underground parking lot exits and entrances. This is about 2 to 3 personal per building. They leave about 6 or 7pm during the weekday. The average age of those who are armed is likely 40+ or middle aged. Meanwhile all unarmed Amazon security personal are likely under 25 years of age. They are kids. I see this daily as I am a supervisor of a janitorial company that is contracted to service the 100+ Amazon building across downtown Seattle, SLU, and Bellevue. Daily I survey at least 25 Amazon buildings in the Seattle/Bellevue area for my janitorial duties. In the process I see how Amazon security goes about their day.
To correct Fox's video, All Amazon buildings have 24/7 unarmed security regardless of executive presence. Rarely, when executives do visit they often have professional private sector security akin to their own secret service.
In addition SEIU6 also represents all janitors contracted with Amazon.
Fox News, previously operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group to my knowledge, is blowing the amount of Amazon security out of proportion. There is no Amazon security militia. There is merely a large watchful eye for the Amazon campus.
And that's why I could never do security or be a police officer. I don't have patience for that nonsense.
What a shame! Seattle is another beautiful city ruined by progressive politics. This also what happened to my favorite city in the world, San Francisco!
I work private security down here in Texas for over 5 years (am an armed commission SO) and cannot stress how much commercial and residential properties rely on private security companies over local law enforcement. Not knocking the local LE Agencies one bit, but sometimes having your own personal armed guard at your place of business or residence already there ready to respond is a much greater comfort to people rather than having to sit and wait for an LEO to arrive on scene. Not to mention, security officers actually help LEOs a great deal, being able to handle and resolve issues in a number of areas in the private sector helps relieve police to handle more crucial roles in public safety.
How is the business out there in Texas with security? I’m here in Atlanta and it’s very mediocre
Wooo hooo Seattle!!!!
jAyDolF and Sideshow Bob knows best they follow the science!!!!
Let’s goooooooo Brandon
Instead of “Defund Police” it should be “Defund Congress”
Thats the training that cops need. “Just because there is a deadly weapon on the scene does not mean you need to use deadly force”
That's about the dumbest idea ever
Agreed that is stupid cops have weapons brandished all the time. They don't kill 99.9% of those people but they should have their weapons ready. Them displaying a firearm in a situation there wasn't one present makes their intent clear.
How to get shot 101:
Next time I visit Seattle I'm not leaving Bainbridge Island.
Time to get that guard card it’s definitely plenty of work
Poverty is the mother of crime
Just like Iraq and Afghanistan, where the government failed, private industry will thrive. We privatized miltary, now the police.
This is what people voted for. This is what said they wanted.
I wonder if there are any family members of any of the "activists", working as "private protection"?
I have a hunch we are dealing with "protection rackets"..
I think I found them...
Fox 13 did a piece on 118 repeat offenders, the one spotlighted was Dillon Jackman. There is a Jackman associated with U.S. Security Associates. They were sold to the largest security provider in the world.. Bringing in billions of big buck. One stake holder I think is Warburg Pincus...
Maybe go talk to management at Home Depot, one of the places Dillon was stealing from?
Babauta could be another family..
Wonder if mom is at Employment Security, where lots of pandemic money went missing, don't really know family tree.. A certain commissioner seem to like low bail in her case...
This is what a democratic ran society looks like. So, enjoy it for the ones who chose their side. Don’t complain, just know you volunteered this into place.
That guy on the bike with a gun between 8:00 and 10:00 is gonna end up killing someone someday if he hasn't already killed before.
And I’ll bet he’s from somewhere else.
Seattle is dead to tourism .I grew up going to the zoo or science center, I miss going down the waterfront or just walking around the shops in the city but I will not go there anymore I won't take my kids to the zoo the park looks like crap The whole city looks like crap and it is all too expensive. I support these security guys 100%
So glad I moved out of this s hole
Same
Where'd you go? Idk where to go
meanwhile eating with your family at a restaurant without a vxpassport is illegal?
I still remember the San Diego top dog transplant who screwed the pooch then went on camera to explain he had done it because "People didn't move here to..." Yeah, he didn't last long. So many continue in his forgettable shoes. This mess began when Reagan toss millions of people off of welfare, food stamps and medical with 6 days notice, thus beginning the modern homeless crisis. Which every city turned blind eyes to other than to bulk up the anti loitering laws and such to give cops the ability to arrest, then the trend of authority policing versus respect policing, met the reality of folk with very little to lose and even less hope for better. Those types don't respond to overbearing misuse of authority meekly and have nothing left to lose. But again, ignorance was bliss and when we can't ignore... blame it on those "who should do something" but did ya bother to vote, did ya advocate for change..? Seattle is liberal, but we are conservative in our liberalism. Once friendly Seattle is now know for Seattle freeze, everyone speculates and conjectures among the other transplants they meet, the whining posts bout how depressing the constant rebuffs and rejections are to a newcomer to such a gloomy place.... GAR! Our cops have sucked and created many of their own troubles by not keeping their house clean and in order. Too the ones who have left GOOD RIDDANCE! Our police force used to be worthy of respect, hopefully these COVID years have at least forced the blinders off, as well as clearing out the very type of authoritarianism overreach personalities within the force that are the same ones who wouldn't take the VAX but have every right to handcuff you, force u up against a wall and yell in your face from an inch away with spittle flying and why should that be not ok!??! Stop talking and start listening. The people described in THIS REPORT are NOT 'The Homeless'. These people described were;
1. 'The addicted' &
2. 'The mentally challenged' for both of these groups homelessness IS MERELY A SYMPTOM OF THE ACTUAL PROBLEM. Giving them a home will do nothing to help because they need different help that is no longer available. They will continue to lose homes until they get real help, or die. As long as you continue to ignore this truth, you will see no improvement. Continue to label everyone as simply 'homeless' instead of recognize the 3 groups currently identified as homeless to in fact have their own unique issues and by necessity therefore DIFFERENT APPROACHES for each of the types. Or the mass failure to make a dent that is the current norm, yeah that's just gonna really get much worse now that everyone is tryin to 'get back to normal' cause the tippin point has met the boiling point and the soft ones who make the choices but have never seen the reality have no idea how much pressure has beeb builing while the. Ity paused.
You really talk to much sounds like you need more mental help than these drug loonies on our streets a day you blame o5 all on Reagan man please
My oldest son is a security officer that works downtown Seattle. I pray for him every night he steps out the door to go to work. I make sure to tell him that I love him and to watch his back.
Don't let anyone approach him from the back. Because some ppl have a hatred for security officers as well as the police.
My youngest son was a security officer for Securitas when he worked at the Columbia Center he also worked at the McDonald's on 3rd and pine. When that 9 year old was shot.
He'll come home with all kinds of horror stories. Mostly about the types of ppl he had to deal with.
After McDonald's was shot up he quit.
Your son works security because he couldn't meet the minimum requirements for a Police Academy. And people only hate security guards who get physical or try to use physical force. Keep your hands to yourself and people respect security
@@arturocamaney9235 what an idiot.... MANY Armed Security are FORMER Law Enforcement Officers......
@@2WheelsForever Like which ones? Name some and the department they previously worked for and give their former badge numbers as well.
@@arturocamaney9235shows you know nothing about others and you project your own handicaps on others..
It could turn into the City of Love.
Huh, Jenny?
this is what can make a place....livable.....anywhere...
Rent-a-cops patrolling? I doubt their clients contracts cover the public roadway.
What a shitty job.... u gotta make $5 million a year to compensate a guy properly for dealing with that kind of trauma
This security guard they ride along with is a clown. Imagine sitting in your car with your seatbelt on while a criminal with a gun is aggressively approaching your vehicle.
I do agree but why escalate a situation especially with a ride along in car. Guess pick your battles in a war.
So you call the security guard a clown but you dont call out the assholes harrasing him for no reason
You are the clown
He’s a clown because he didn’t pull his gun on some genius riding a bike, talking from his ass? No gun was displayed or even used, so why would you suggest one was there when you didn’t see it? You sound more like a clown regarding that scene.
Why is he a clown? Since you care so much about him wearing a seatbelt, did you not see him clearly unbuckle it, just in case that loser decided to act out?
@@dlane7539 you could not be more wrong about this.
Keeping our small town safe...we send the transients on to places like Seattle, San Francisco where they will find services and places to stay without being hassled.
Seattle city council see Seattle police levels being at an historic low a good thing. Fewer police mean that criminals have a better chance of succeeding. Since a certain ethnic group are over represented in criminal activity with fewer police this will give that group a better chance of not getting caught and not going to prison.
What’s that ethnic group?
That’s what happens when you starve those areas
Figure it out. In Seattle, the stat is 8/81.
@@vallee7966 Google was no help. Never lived or been to Seattle.
LOL they require more qualifications than actual police departments do
I’m against allowing these businesses hiring private security. They’re citizens of the city. They supported and protested to defund the police. Now that they did, the people who can afford get to feel safe? Nope. You get to suffer with the rest until you learn your lesson and start voting differently
You're argument is a red herring. This notion presupposes that EVERY Seattle citizen voted to defund the police and with a city with a population of nearly 800,000 people this is untrue
Police don't like to be held accountable so they go to the states where they can get away with murder and corruption. The red states. The good cops stay and do the work.
@@blurtam188 there's more good cops than bad cops when your in emergency I bet you'll be running and calling police respect them
Just WHERE is Inslee in all of this?! Take note people. He KNEW this was escalating years ago
Inslee appointed the judges, AVERIL ROTHROCK & NELSON LEE who released the two violent teenage thugs that murdered a pot shop worker in Federal Way days later.
TIME TO VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE!
No suspect description. Just "no weapon"
Security knows which one the manager is? Just stand in the middle and keep your back to one of them?
"How do you know him?"
" He hit me for no reason." 😐
Dude has a gun and cop is chasing the purse snatcher instead of prioritizing and pulling his gun and taking cover or leave purse guy and focus on guy with gun?
This is why security personnel are a joke. This training is not good.
What’s the name of the security company?
Seem like Seattle Washington is just on the map now , I from the eastcoast!!!!!
seattle city council deserves to be arrested. These people would rather give 6 figure salaries to social workers than invest that money into protecting this city and stopping crime. There is no excuses for this, this state was given extra revenue from taxing legal weed
This reminds me a lot of South Africa. Is that what you want Seattle? To be South Africa? Cause it's going just peachy there, isn't it?
This is ridiculous! We have one of the most educated places in the country and yet a completely nonfunctional government.