Proactive Private Protection Professionals Are Needed For This Era, Not Passive Relics of A Bygone Time

I wish each state would abolish the term "security officer" and use either "protection officer", as International Foundation for Protection Officers has advocated for years or terms like "private protection professional", recently coined by JC Shegog, master protector, protection trainer and inspiration of mine.

This is the era of protection, a time period where observe and report-oriented security guards and deterrence-focused security officers are simply not enough to protect spaces from frequent disorder and sudden violence. Such volatile dynamics are tragic norms after society reopened following much debated shutdowns not to be rehashed in this article. lol

For the foreseeable future, clients and the public need protection officers or "private protection professionals" legally empowered, authorized by employers, trained and dedicated to identifying and stopping abundant aggression targeting once safe public spaces. A short list of once safe public spaces includes: retail establishments, supermarkets, places of worship and many more once tame locales.
Observe and report-oriented security guards and deterrence-based security officers, like polite loss prevention agents and store detectives who could walk shoplifting suspects to the office without a cage match or violent felonies exploding, belong to a more genteel era, like the '90s, when I started working in various protection fields.

In those days, higher risk fields were bounty hunting (renamed some combination of either bail recovery or bail enforcement agents, due to bad publicity which prompted professionalization pressures by legislators and people in that field) or working in bars and nightclubs whose clientele were a bigger threat than outside aggressors.

Having done both in those days, I can say with no hint of exaggeration that working retail security or loss prevention today is far more high risk than being a 90s vintage bounty hunter and bouncer, at least in my experience.

In the 21st century, our profession needs to be known as professional protectors, regardless of field, who are reasonably expected to defeat or at least delay aggressors until relieved by law enforcement.

That's where we as professionals and as private citizens find ourselves, in an era that desperately needs to transition from passive "security" to proactive protection, in my humble opinion.

Policing is being reformed and alarmingly, deformed, into uniformed excuse makers or spectators who don't want to be arrested or sued to satisfy an enabling ideology.

This enabling ideology has gone beyond addressing institutional injustice to imposing impotence upon police officers at the exact moment it grants violent career criminals de facto diplomatic immunity.

Proactive private protection professionals are needed for this era, not passive relics of a bygone time.
EVENT SECURITY PROFESSIONAL. ADVOCATE.

Nadra Enzi aka Cap Black is a philosophical protector specializing in security management beside event organizers and owners of establishments serving the general public.

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