Public Relations and Professionalism
Angela Brayton
CJS/250
Ed Campbell
02/07/2016

What are some examples from the article concerning the importance of private security industry members having the same level of professionalism as public law enforcement officers?
For the majority of private security in the article, with the exception of a couple, most appear to be handling situations in a professional manner as would the public police. The three who beat the man in front of his family, weren’t acting professionally.
This is often the case with private security. Some take the security position as a job of power and feel that they can do whatever they want to a person if they think they are guilty off some wrong doing.

How can a negative image impact the security of a community? How can this image be improved?
A negative image from security officials will make a community feel unsafe, and feel as they can’t depend on having protection by them. If there are beatings going on at the hands of them, how could they feel safe?
With the proper training and appropriate punishment when they don’t follow the rules, there wouldn’t be so much power play going on. I feel that there needs to be more thorough background checks done on potential employees.
Here in Ohio, we recently had a case where a University of Cincinnati security officer shot and killed a person. Though I haven’t followed the story, I do know that there was rioting going on afterwards and the public was outraged and the outcome, saying he did not need to shoot and kill him. Again I feel that it was an issue of power, many feel that way when they put the uniform