Growth and Contribution of Private Security Industry Reflect on the growth and contribution of the private security industry to the contemporary policing landscape.
Private security is an indispensable cog in the American machinery of justice. The previous commentary outlines the Herculean contributions made by the industry in the protection of social and economic order. Even private security’s harshest, most strident critics realize that without the services of private security, a gaping, colossal protection vacuum would exist in the distribution of justice, the protection of assets and facilities, and related services. Public policing alone simply cannot fend off the escalating criminality or solely assure the integrity of the community and governmental infrastructures.
