The Private Security Industry

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This paper explains that the need for private security in critical infrastructure areas, such as nuclear power plants, water supplies, military bases and other areas essential to the nation's health and security, has increased. The author points out that private security has decrease for businesses because of the private guard's lack of authority, decrease concern post 9/11 and the economy slump after the attacks reduced the number of businesses. The paper concludes that the private security industry can never fully replace traditional policing because private security guards do not have the policing powers of traditional police persons and are not effective in many situations.

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"The one area where security has grown after the terrorist attacks is in the number of airport screeners. However, since these screeners are no longer privatized but are government employees, they may have actually negatively impacted the growth of private security when the jobs were taken over by the government. Parfomak notes, "The TSA has subsequently reduced the screening work force to 44,000 workers, although this number of screeners is still 57% higher than in 2001.""

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