Event Security in DFW: The Holiday Calendar Is Booked in October, Not December
There is no surge capacity in this industry. Every guard company in the Metroplex staffs from the same pool of licensed officers, and that pool does not grow in December.
Armed Security Guards in Fort Worth: The Decision Is Made Before the Shift Starts
Texas law makes deadly force in defense of property the narrowest ground there is. The decision that matters is not made at the scene. It is made in an office, in writing, weeks before the post is ever filled.
A Camera Records. An Officer Responds.
A group physically removed a license plate reader and pulled three weeks of data off the device. The number is not the lesson. From Devin Morgan’s segment on the Lars Larson Show.
Counterterrorism Used to Be About Borders. Now It’s About Bandwidth.
The 9/11 plot took 19 hijackers and years of planning. One person with a phone can move from grievance to target in weeks. From Devin Morgan’s interview on KPNW’s The Wake Up Call.
Hotel Security Guards in Fort Worth: The 2:48 A.M. Problem
Cameras identified the suspect. Cameras did not stop him. The intervention decision at 2:48 in the morning belonged to one officer standing alone in a parking garage, and whoever wrote his post orders decided what he did weeks earlier.
Parking Garage Security Guards in Fort Worth: What the Sept. 3 Shooting Changes
At 2:48 a.m. on September 3, an officer in a Fort Worth parking garage confronted a man pulling car door handles and was shot in the arm. The contact was survivable. The question is whether the post order made it survivable, or made it worse.